EDEB 550 Regional Contexts for Turkish Literature I: The Balkans
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Traditionally, scholarly discourses that seek to approach Turkish literature from within a transnational framework have been fixated on a largely hypothetical East-West divide and have largely focused on the West as a point of reference and comparison. However, as much as an engagement with Western European literature has shaped the evolution of modern Turkish literature, regional dynamics have also played a major role in its development.
The first in a three-course sequence investigating the regional literary contexts at the intersection which modern Turkish literature is located, this course introduces students to literary and theoretical texts from the broader Balkan region dealing with such topics as the legacy of the Ottoman presence in the region, the Balkans Wars of the 1910, and the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange. Subsequent courses (Regional Contexts for Turkish Literature II and III) will focus on the Black Sea and the Caucasus, and the Arab world and Persian respectively.
Credit units: 3 ECTS Credit units: 5.
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