Book Description
The cast-offs of modern urban society are driven out onto the edges of the city and left to make a
Author : Latife Tekin
Publisher : Tales from the Garbage Hills
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714530116
The cast-offs of modern urban society are driven out onto the edges of the city and left to make a
Author : Latife Tekin
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The cast-offs of modern urban society are driven out onto the edges of the city and left to make a life there for themselves. They are not, however, in any natural wilderness, but in a world of refuse and useless junk - a place which denies any form of sustainable life. Here, the unemployed, the homeless, the old and the bereft struggle to build shelters out of old tin cans, scavenge for food and fight against insuperable odds. There is the mysterious great wind that flattens their homes every night and cripples their children; the industrial pollution from the factory which slowly disfigures them. Some of the lucky ones find work, but are ruthlessly exploited, denied everything except their pitiful wages. All attempts at asserting their dignity are doomed to failure, either by the outside world of cops, lawyers, thugs and businessmen, or by their own frustration and anger. And yet somehow they survive: it seems that society thrives on the garbage hills because it has always been built on one. In this dark fairy tale full of scenes taken from what has increasingly become a way of life for many inhabitants on this planet, Latife Tekin has written a grim parable of human destiny.
Author : Latife Tekin
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Turkey
ISBN :
Author : Meliz Ergin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319632639
This book foregrounds entanglement as a guiding concept in Derrida’s work and considers its implications and benefits for ecocritical thought. Ergin introduces the notion of "ecological text" to emphasize textuality as a form of entanglement that proves useful in thinking about ecological interdependence and uncertainty. She brings deconstruction into a dialogue with social ecology and new materialism, outlining entanglements in three strands of thought to demonstrate the relevance of this concept in theoretical terms. Ergin then investigates natural-social entanglements through a comparative analysis of the works of the American poet Juliana Spahr and the Turkish writer Latife Tekin. The book enriches our understanding of complicity and accountability by revealing the ecological network of material and discursive forces in which we are deeply embedded. It makes a significant contribution to current debates on ecocritical theory, comparative literature, and ecopoetics.
Author : Latife Tekin
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A bizarre, magical narrative from one of Turkey's leading feminist writers.
Author : N. Buket Cengiz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 303061221X
Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present analyses the representation of rural migration to Istanbul in literature, placing Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the right to the city at the centre of the argument. Using a framework of critical urban theory, the book examines Orhan Kemal’s Gurbet Kuşları [The Homesick Birds] (1962); Muzaffer İzgü’s Halo Dayı ve İki Öküz [Uncle Halo and Two Oxen] (1973); Latife Tekin’s Berci Kristin Çöp Masalları [Berji Kristin: Tales From the Garbage Hills] (1984); Metin Kaçan’s Ağır Roman [Heavy Roman(i)] (1990); Ayhan Geçgin’s Kenarda [On the Periphery] (2003); Hatice Meryem’s İnsan Kısım Kısım, Yer Damar Damar [It Takes All Kinds] (2008); and Orhan Pamuk’s Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık [A Strangeness in My Mind] (2014) in the historical context as regards rural migration to Istanbul, urbanization of migrants, and anti-migrant nostalgia. Situating these works as a counterpoint to nostalgic novels and categorising them as right to the city novels, the book aims to offer a conceptual framework that can be implemented on internal as well as international migration in other global(ising) cities; and on cultural products other than literature, such as film.
Author : Latife Tekin
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
'A nihilistic wit reminiscent of Samuel Beckett.'-The Independent
Author : John Burnside
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 038552949X
Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche. Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the post-industrial village of Innertown, and a pervasive sense of malaise hangs everywhere. So when teenage boys disappear into the poisoned woods surrounding the village’s abandoned chemical plant, no one notices, or if they do, they don’t say a thing. Not even the town’s only cop, whose leads have long since died. To one boy, however, the chemical plant is beautiful, and it is there he will enact a plan to change the fate of the children of Innertown. To do so he will have to confront the blinding reality that burns in the chemical plant’s cavernous center.
Author : Dimitris Asimakoulas
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847694330
Translation and Opposition is an edited volume that brings together cultural and sociological perspectives by examining translation through the prism of linguistic/cultural hybridity and inter/intra-social agency. In a collection of diverse case studies, ranging from the translation of political texts to interpreting in concentration camps, the book explores issues of power struggle, ideology, censorship and identity construction. The contributors to the volume show how translators, interpreters and subtitlers as mediators put their specific professional and ethical competences to the test by treading the dividing lines between constellations of ‘in-groups’ and cultural or political ‘others’.
Author : C. Kerslake
Publisher : Springer
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 023027739X
Turkey's Enagement with Modernity explores how the country has been shaped in the image of the Kemalist project of nationalist modernity and how it has transformed, if erratically, into a democratic society where tensions between religion, state and society continue unabated.