Autobiographical themes in Turkish literature : theoretical and comparative perspectives / edited by Olcay Akyıldız, Halim Kara, Börte Sagaster. Würzburg : Ergon Verlag in Kommission, 2016
Content
Contents
Introduction
Olcay Akyıldız: What happens when fact and fiction overlap? Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei
Theoretical Dimensions
Susanne Enderwitz: Autobiography and “Islam”
Özkan Ezli: Lejeune and Foucault or: A name with no identity
Herrad Heselhaus: Sentenced to Life: Autobiography and Aging
Gabriele Jancke: Autobiography as Social Practice in Early Modern German-Speaking Areas. Historical, methodological, and theoretical perspectives
Past and Present of Autobiographical Writing in Turkey
Derin Terzioğlu: Autobiography in fragments: reading Ottoman personal miscellanies in the early modern era
Nüket Esen: Menfa: Self-Reflection in Ahmet Mithat’s Memoirs after Exile
Halim Kara: Relational Self-Narratives: Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’s Autobiographical Writings
Hülya Adak: Who is Afraid of Dr. Riza Nur’s Autobiography?
Erika Glassen: The Sociable Self: The Search for Identity by Conversation (Sohbet). The Turkish Literary Community and the Problem of Autobiographical Writing
Sibel Irzık: Narratives of Collectivity and Autobiography in Latife Tekin’s Works
Börte Sagaster: “Me, Who Got into the Text, Me, Who Became the Text”. Encounter of fact and fiction in contemporary Turkish autobiographical writing
Turkish Literature in Comparative Perspective
Catharina Dufft: The “Autobiographical Space” in Orhan Pamuk’s Works
Stephan Guth: Writing the Self, Choosing a Language. Non-Arabic Autobiographies by Arabs, non-Turkish by Turks
Angelika Neuwirth: Imagining Autobiography: Mahmud Darwish, his Poetic Persona, and his Audience
Farzaneh Milani: “Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud…”
Contributors
Index