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Excavating Memory : Bilge Karasu’s Istanbul and Walter Benjamin’s Berlin by Ülker Gökberk is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 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 Beyoğlu 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, Gökberk 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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Author

Ülker Gökberk

Publisher

Academic Studies Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781644694428

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Science, Literary Fiction