This study moves the acclaimed Turkish fiction writer Bilge Karasu (1930-1995) into a new critical arena by examining 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, h.
Academic Studies Press Excavating memory: bilge karasu's istanbul and walter benjamin's berlin, hardcover/Ülker gökberk
