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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................. iii
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................... 1
CHAPTER I: Uncanny Moments in Nineteenth-Century Travelogues on Constantinople ................................................................................................................ 17
i) Colliding into the Modern in Constantinople ................................................................. 17
ii) The Textual Uncanny........................................................................................................ 36
CHAPTER II: The Spectral Return to the ‗Beginning‘ in Constantinople .................... 50
i) Journey into a Forbidden Pre-modern Past ..................................................................... 50
ii) The Figure of the Flȃneur in the Belatedly Modern Geography of Constantinople ................................................................................................................ 73
CHAPTER III: The Search for the Lost City and the Lost Text: Self-Reflections of the Modern Traveler in Post-Ottoman Istanbul ..................................................... 89
i) Nostalgia for the Modern: Restoration of the ‗Heroic‘ Victorian Self in Philip Glazebrook‘s Journey to Kars ...................................................................................... 97
ii) Joseph Brodsky‘s Reflective Nostalgia in ‗Flight from Byzantium‘ ....................... 104
CHAPTER IV: Istanbul in Contemporary Western Detective Fiction: Recovering the Lost Text of the Literary Canon ........................................................................... 115
i) The Ambivalent Position of the Detective between Tradition and Modernity in the Segregated Literary Cartography of the City ..................................................... 128
ii) Nostalgia for the Other‘s Past: Barbara Nadel‘s Istanbul .......................................... 157
iii) The Historiographical Detective Fiction in Jason Goodwin‘s Ottoman Detective Series ............................................................................................................ 172
CHAPTER V: The Spectral City of Contemporary Turkish Writers Writing within and Against the Western Literary Canon on Istanbul .............................................. 181
i) Orhan Pamuk‘s City of Collective Melancholy ........................................................... 202
ii) Fantastic Encounters in and with the City: Nazlı Eray‘s Beyoğlu’nda Gezersin (You Stroll Around Beyoğlu) ....................................................................................... 216
iii) Oya Baydar‘s Istanbul: Erguvan Kapısı (The Gate of the Judas Tree) and the Search for Dead Bodies in ―The Country Killing Her Children‖ .......................... 231
BIBLIOGRAPHY ................................................................................................................ 243
APPENDICES ...................................................................................................................... 264
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| Title | Collective melancholy: Istanbul at the crossroads of history, space and memory |
| Author | Tekdemir, Hande |
| Author email | tekdemir@usc.edu; hande_tekdemir@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-06 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Russett, Margaret |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lloyd, David Norindr, Panivong |
| Abstract | This study draws on a historical perspective on the evolution of a certain form that I call the "Istanbul canon" in which the city has always been associated with loss. Tracing the genealogy of loss in the literary representations of Istanbul by both western and local writers in the past and the present, I explore how the various configurations of loss are related to the local context and to the history of modernity at large. The city's ambivalent history in this geography on the threshold, functions as a means to understand loss, concealed in the various spatio-temporal layers -- East and West, colonizer and the colonized, pre-modern and modern, -- within the history of modernity. My objective is to consider the cityscape as a template upon which modernity is projected as a subjective and fleeting experience, comprehended in both local and global terms, and critiqued accordingly. I focus on the uncanny as a recurrent characteristic of nineteenth-century travelogues, in which the traveler is unsettled by unexpectedly encountering the familiar within the unfamiliar terrain of Constantinople, while I consider the nostalgic renditions of modern travelogues and western detective fiction not only as reflections on the changes within the western literary canon about the city, but also as reactions against the modernizing world. Finally, the last chapter illustrates melancholy as the dominant sentiment in the contemporary Turkish literature on Istanbul; yet, it also displays the convergence of melancholy with the uncanny and nostalgia in Turkish writers' ambiguous relationship to the modern. |
| Keyword | melancholy; Istanbul; Orhan Pamuk; travel literature; detective fiction |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Istanbul; Constantinople |
| Coverage date | after 1800 |
| Coverage era | Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1656 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Tekdemir, Hande |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Tekdemir-2357 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Tekdemir-2357.pdf |
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| Title | Page 2 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................. iii INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER I: Uncanny Moments in Nineteenth-Century Travelogues on Constantinople ................................................................................................................ 17 i) Colliding into the Modern in Constantinople ................................................................. 17 ii) The Textual Uncanny........................................................................................................ 36 CHAPTER II: The Spectral Return to the ‗Beginning‘ in Constantinople .................... 50 i) Journey into a Forbidden Pre-modern Past ..................................................................... 50 ii) The Figure of the Flȃneur in the Belatedly Modern Geography of Constantinople ................................................................................................................ 73 CHAPTER III: The Search for the Lost City and the Lost Text: Self-Reflections of the Modern Traveler in Post-Ottoman Istanbul ..................................................... 89 i) Nostalgia for the Modern: Restoration of the ‗Heroic‘ Victorian Self in Philip Glazebrook‘s Journey to Kars ...................................................................................... 97 ii) Joseph Brodsky‘s Reflective Nostalgia in ‗Flight from Byzantium‘ ....................... 104 CHAPTER IV: Istanbul in Contemporary Western Detective Fiction: Recovering the Lost Text of the Literary Canon ........................................................................... 115 i) The Ambivalent Position of the Detective between Tradition and Modernity in the Segregated Literary Cartography of the City ..................................................... 128 ii) Nostalgia for the Other‘s Past: Barbara Nadel‘s Istanbul .......................................... 157 iii) The Historiographical Detective Fiction in Jason Goodwin‘s Ottoman Detective Series ............................................................................................................ 172 CHAPTER V: The Spectral City of Contemporary Turkish Writers Writing within and Against the Western Literary Canon on Istanbul .............................................. 181 i) Orhan Pamuk‘s City of Collective Melancholy ........................................................... 202 ii) Fantastic Encounters in and with the City: Nazlı Eray‘s Beyoğlu’nda Gezersin (You Stroll Around Beyoğlu) ....................................................................................... 216 iii) Oya Baydar‘s Istanbul: Erguvan Kapısı (The Gate of the Judas Tree) and the Search for Dead Bodies in ―The Country Killing Her Children‖ .......................... 231 BIBLIOGRAPHY ................................................................................................................ 243 APPENDICES ...................................................................................................................... 264 |
