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This course will be an introduction to different
types of self-narrative, ranging from autobiographies,
biographies, auto-ethnographies, self-documentaries
to autofiction. The course will emphasize the study of
narrative structures in autobiography. Different
autobiographical texts will be studied in their historical,
social and political contexts, while we explore the
impact such works have had on literary and intellectual
history. In the contextof autobiographical writing,
in the tensile relationship between self and society, we
will analyze issues related to gender, sexuality,
race, class, and religion. Possible readings include St.
Augustine's Confessions, J. J. Rousseau's Confessions,
Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,
Halide Edib Adıvar's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal,
RolandBarthes's Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes,
Brenda Maddox's Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce
(Or: Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom), Latife Tekin's
Gece Dersleri, and Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: Hatıralar
ve Şehir
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