Excavating Memory
Bilge Karasu's Istanbul and Walter Benjamin's Berlin
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2020
288 pages
978-1-64469-444-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book brings the Turkish writer Bilge Karasu (1930-1995) into a new critical spotlight by examining the author's poetics of memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul's Beyoglu. Gökberk contextualizes these posthumously published pieces in an approach informed by studies on memory, identity, place, and remembering as literary representation.
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Gökberk Ülker:
Ülker Gökberk is Professor Emerita of German and Humanities at Reed College. The methodology and themes of her scholarship have been largely inspired by the paradigm intercultural German Studies. In her publications she has focused on models of cultural encounter and on different facets of alterity. Gökberk has worked with texts by German authors, ranging from Thomas Mann to Siegfried Lenz, as well as with those by Turkish-German authors. Her publications on modern Turkish literature include essays on Orhan Pamuk and Bilge Karasu. Aesthetic representations of displacement remain an ongoing concern of Gökberk's critical inquiry.Ülker Gökberk is Professor Emerita of German and Humanities at Reed College. The methodology and themes of her scholarship have been largely inspired by the paradigm intercultural German Studies. In her publications she has focused on models of cultural encounter and on different facets of alterity. Gökberk has worked with texts by German authors, ranging from Thomas Mann to Siegfried Lenz, as well as with those by Turkish-German authors. Her publications on modern Turkish literature include essays on Orhan Pamuk and Bilge Karasu. Aesthetic representations of displacement remain an ongoing concern of Gökberk's critical inquiry.
Ülker Gökberk is Professor Emerita of German and Humanities at Reed College. The methodology and themes of her scholarship have been largely inspired by the paradigm intercultural German Studies. In her publications she has focused on models of cultural encounter and on different facets of alterity. Gökberk has worked with texts by German authors, ranging from Thomas Mann to Siegfried Lenz, as well as with those by Turkish-German authors. Her publications on modern Turkish literature include essays on Orhan Pamuk and Bilge Karasu. Aesthetic representations of displacement remain an ongoing concern of Gökberk's critical inquiry.Ülker Gökberk is Professor Emerita of German and Humanities at Reed College. The methodology and themes of her scholarship have been largely inspired by the paradigm intercultural German Studies. In her publications she has focused on models of cultural encounter and on different facets of alterity. Gökberk has worked with texts by German authors, ranging from Thomas Mann to Siegfried Lenz, as well as with those by Turkish-German authors. Her publications on modern Turkish literature include essays on Orhan Pamuk and Bilge Karasu. Aesthetic representations of displacement remain an ongoing concern of Gökberk's critical inquiry.
Content
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction 1. Beginnings: Reading Memory2. From Berlin's Old West to Istanbul's Beyoglu: Narratives of Memory, Narratives of Lost Topographies3. Incompleteness as Anti-Autobiography: The Production and Publication Histories of Benjamin's and Karasu's Memory Narratives4. 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 Traces6. "Dialectical Images" in Beyoglu's Black Waters: The Photograph as Testimony7. Remembering as Distortion: Visual and Aural Traces of Alterity8. Spatiality as the Inscription of the Past9. Crazy Meryem as the Saint of Beyoglu's Marginalized: Toward a Final Reading of DifferenceConclusionAddendum: Biographical Notes on Bilge Karasu
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Index
Introduction 1. Beginnings: Reading Memory2. From Berlin's Old West to Istanbul's Beyoglu: Narratives of Memory, Narratives of Lost Topographies3. Incompleteness as Anti-Autobiography: The Production and Publication Histories of Benjamin's and Karasu's Memory Narratives4. 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 Traces6. "Dialectical Images" in Beyoglu's Black Waters: The Photograph as Testimony7. Remembering as Distortion: Visual and Aural Traces of Alterity8. Spatiality as the Inscription of the Past9. Crazy Meryem as the Saint of Beyoglu's Marginalized: Toward a Final Reading of DifferenceConclusionAddendum: Biographical Notes on Bilge Karasu
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