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Excavating Memory - Bilge Karasu's Istanbul and Walter Benjamin's Berlin (Hardcover)
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Excavating Memory - Bilge Karasu's Istanbul and Walter Benjamin's Berlin (Hardcover)
Series: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
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This study moves the acclaimed Turkish fiction writer Bilge Karasu
(1930-1995) into a new critical arena by examining his poetics of
memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul's Beyoglu, once a
cosmopolitan neighborhood called Pera. Karasu established his fame
in literary criticism as an experimental modernist, but while
themes such as sexuality, gender, and oppression have received
critical attention, an essential tenet of Karasu's oeuvre, the
evocation of ethno-cultural identity, has remained unexplored:
Excavating Memory brings to light this dimension. Through his
non-referential and ambiguous renderings of memory, Karasu gives in
his Beyoglu narratives unique expression to ethno-cultural
difference in Turkish literature, and lets through his own
repressed minority identity. By using Walter Benjamin's
autobiographical work as a heuristic premise for illuminating
Karasu, Goekberk establishes an innovative intercultural framework,
which brings into dialogue two representative writers of the
twentieth century over temporal and spatial distances.
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