Overview
- Extends scholarship on Turkish literature in English
- Identifies literary representations of the urban gentrification process in global cities
- Presents new insights into urban studies and migration studies
Part of the book series: Literary Urban Studies (LIURS)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (9 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present analyses the representation of rural migration to Istanbul in literature, placing Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the right to the city at the centre of the argument. Using a framework of critical urban theory, the book examines Orhan Kemal’s Gurbet Kuşları [The Homesick Birds] (1962); Muzaffer İzgü’s Halo Dayı ve İki Öküz [Uncle Halo and Two Oxen] (1973); Latife Tekin’s Berci Kristin Çöp Masalları [Berji Kristin: Tales From the Garbage Hills] (1984); Metin Kaçan’s Ağır Roman [Heavy Roman(i)] (1990); Ayhan Geçgin’s Kenarda [On the Periphery] (2003); Hatice Meryem’s İnsan Kısım Kısım, Yer Damar Damar [It Takes All Kinds] (2008); and Orhan Pamuk’s Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık [A Strangeness in My Mind] (2014) in the historical context as regards rural migration to Istanbul, urbanization of migrants, and anti-migrant nostalgia. Situating these works as a counterpoint to nostalgic novels and categorising them as right to the city novels, the book aims to offer a conceptual framework that can be implemented on internal as well as international migration in other global(ising) cities; and on cultural products other than literature, such as film.
Reviews
“N. Buket Cengiz analyses, with refreshing clarity, the extremely dynamic, sophisticated, and impressive representations of Istanbul’s rural migrants in modern Turkish novel. The narratological close readings of seven novels are enriched with an interpretation based on associations with sociology, political science, history, and urban studies of modern Turkey. Cengiz’s clever and satisfying work shows that novelists are not content with simply observing the challenging adventures of rural migrants in Istanbul and representing their experiences in fiction. These novelists also introduce opportunities to millions of citizens, mostly children or grandchildren of these migrants, to seek the possibilities of a more democratic and sharing urban existence. With her book, N. Buket Cengiz offers a qualified interdisciplinary work stemming from literary studies, and invites her readers to imagine a different and liveable city.” (Erol Köroğlu, Associate Professor, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Bosporus University, Istanbul)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present
Authors: N. Buket Cengiz
Series Title: Literary Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61221-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61220-7Published: 17 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61223-8Published: 18 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61221-4Published: 16 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-7888
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 244
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Middle Eastern Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Urban History, Urban Studies/Sociology