1997 yılında Boğaziçi Üniversitesi son sınıf öğrencisiydim. Yasakların en son ulaştığı yerlerden biri olan Boğaziçi’nde yaşamın çok fazla değişmediğini hatırlıyorum. Genel yasaklar başlamadan önce derslerine tesettürlü ...

This article investigates the ways in which the Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi perceived and represented the various political powers and cultural heritages in the Mediterranean, through a reading of his seventeenth-century ...

Kurban Said’s 1937 novel Ali and Nino tells the story of a pair of lovers from Baku whose lives are dramatically altered in the aftermath of the revolutions and new nation states arising post World War I. Although, from ...

This paper is part of a larger project I am working on, on re-enchantment and melancholia in contemporary narratives. In it, I will focus mainly on two films as emblematic of recent approaches to religion in the global ...

Halide Edib’s other [son] is now at the school of economics in London, where his mother has been living since 1924, an exile among the same British whose soldiers hunted her in 1920 as she escaped from Constantinople hidden ...

This is a polemical paper trying to formulate a poetics of replacement and genealogy based on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. Thornfield, in the book Jane Eyre, is one of the most famous ...

This paper aims to trace the afterlives of a neighbourhood of Istanbul that sprawls along the western side of the Golden Horn. Today, Balat has become the name of an area that comprises the neighbourhoods of Fener, Balat ...

In Masks or Souls, written in Paris in 1937, Turkish author Halide Edib Adıvar makes use of elements of modernist theatre to express her political views. Having been brought up in the metropolis of Istanbul, she spent time ...

Hemen hemen tüm medeniyetlerde edebiyatın en eski formlarından biri olan şiir, özellikle kafiye ve vezin kullanımından dolayı kişisel ve kültürel hafızanın muhafaza edildiği bir tür olmuştur. T. S. Eliot’ın öncülerinden ...

Vladimir Nabokov yazın sanatıyla hafızanın aktarımı arasındaki bağa inanan ve kitaplarında buna sürekli dikkat çeken yazarlardan biridir. Üç farklı versiyonu yayımlanmış otobiyografisine verdiği en son isim Konuş, Hafıza’dır. ...