Excavating Memory : : Bilge Karasu’s Istanbul and Walter Benjamin’s Berlin / / Ülker Gökberk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Gökberk, Ülker,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

This study moves the acclaimed Turkish fiction writer Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) into a new critical arena by examining the his poetics of memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul’s Beyoğlu, once a cosmopolitan neighborhood called Pera. Karasu established his fame in literary criticism as an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Beginnings: Reading Memory
• 2. From Berlin’s Old West to Istanbul’s Beyoğlu: Narratives of Memory, Narratives of Lost Topographies
• 3. Incompleteness as Anti-Autobiography: The Production and Publication Histories of Benjamin’s and Karasu’s Memory Narratives
• 4. Bilge Karasu in Historical Context: Identity Formation in the Shadow of “Turkification”
• 5. Forgetting, Remembering, and the Workings of Collective Memory: Survival and the Retrieval of Memory Traces
• 6. “Dialectical Images” in Beyoğlu’s Black Waters: The Photograph as Testimony
• 7. Remembering as Distortion: Visual and Aural Traces of Alterity
• 8. Spatiality as the Inscription of the Past
• 9. Crazy Meryem as the Saint of Beyoğlu’s Marginalized: Toward a Final Reading of Difference
• Conclusion
• Addendum: Biographical Notes on Bilge Karasu
• References
• Index