This course introduces students to major works of
literature that have influenced Turkish history and
culture and continue to have an impact on our understanding
of contemporary Turkey. Course materials combine
such literary works with theoretical and historical
writings on Turkey, focusing on topics such as nationalism,
gender, theories of third world narratives and
aesthetics in a non-western context, canon-formation
and the construction of a national canon, minority
literatures, and prison literature. Compared to a
introductory survey course on Turkish Literature (such as
LIT 394), LIT 492 encourages in-depth analyses of fewer
literary works. The authors to be covered include
(but are not limited to) Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay,
Orhan Pamuk, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Latife Tekin, Elif Şafak,
Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Mehmet Uzun, and Mıgırdıç Margosyan.
The language of instruction is Turkish. For the possibility
of being taken simultaneously by graduate students, and of
fulfilling the research seminar requirements in
History in particular, see LIT 692.
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