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Publication Metadata only Disciplinary utopias: the Mediterranean as a context and artistic mediations(Penn State University Press, 2024) Department of Comparative Literature; Arslan, Ceylan Ceyhun; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis article shifts the emphasis away from debates on how to study the history of the Mediterranean. Instead, it examines the utopian perspectives that Mediterranean as a context and as a framework generates for artists and scholars. Arslan argues that the Mediterranean's longue-durée history does not have to be thought of as a prison or a burden; rather, this history can provide new future visions. The article claims that artists can draw upon the Mediterranean's history to simultaneously resist against Western imperialism and criticize discriminatory practices in their communities. Furthermore, recent works in Mediterranean studies can generate what the author calls a disciplinary utopia, wherein critics can engage with theoretical issues without foregoing attention to the languages and historical contexts of the traditions they study. The Mediterranean is not solely a sea in which narratives are produced; it is also a context in which they can be reassessed.Publication Metadata only Tahar Djaout, 25 years later(Florida State Univ, 2018) Cenier, Adele; Department of Comparative Literature; MacDonald, Megan Catherine; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Entwined narratives: Latife Tekin's ecopoetics(Palgrave, 2017) Department of Comparative Literature; Ergin, Meliz; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 101428N/APublication Metadata only Editor's introduction(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016) Celestin, Roger; Crowley, Patrick; DalMolin, Eliane; Department of Comparative Literature; MacDonald, Megan Catherine; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Juliana Spahr's anticolonial ecologies(Palgrave, 2017) Department of Comparative Literature; Ergin, Meliz; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 101428This chapter focuses on environmental-political entanglements in Juliana Spahr’s work. The first part examines two place-based poetic essays from Well Then There Now. Whereas “Dole Street” consists of narrative history, photography, and personal memories about the postcolonial city, “2199 Kalia Road” traces the relationship between neocolonialism and environmental decay. Ergin uses these essays to provoke a discussion of the relationship between bodies, ecologies, and politics, and to explore the ways in which postcolonial mili/tourism interferes with Hawaiian ecology. The second part focuses on Spahr’s anticolonial poems from Well Then There Now and investigates material-discursive entanglements in “Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another,” “Sonnets,” and “Some of We and the Land That Was Never Ours.” Ergin shows that these poems foreground interconnected systems and irregularities of identification to resist colonial taxonomies and to expose the eco-ontological ambiguity at the heart of all existence.Publication Metadata only High off the page: representing the drug experience in the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg(The University Press of Kentucky, 2012) NA; Department of Comparative Literature; Mortenson, Erik; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/Ahis article explores attempts by Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to transcribe their drug experiences onto the written page. Utilizing both Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work on intersubjective communication and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s conception of the “Body Without Organs,” it argues that by writing “through the body,” Kerouac and Ginsberg are able to transmit the physical and emotional effects of the drug experience to the reader via the medium of the text. he reader thus receives not just an objective account of the drug experience, but becomes privy to the alterations in temporal percep- tion and intersubjective empathy that drug use inaugurates.Publication Metadata only Emine Sevgi Özdamar's translingual poetics in Mutterzunge(Univ Toronto Press Inc, 2013) Department of Comparative Literature; Ergin, Meliz; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 101428Publication Metadata only Spolia and textual reincarnations. A reassessment of the Hagia Sophia's history(Masarykova Univ, 2021) Department of Comparative Literature; Arslan, Ceylan Ceyhun; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 280297A study of literary representations of buildings leads to intersections of comparative literature and art history. This article uses two concepts from spolia studies, "reincarnation"and "afterlife" to argue that the forms that a building adopts in literature can be considered textual reincarnations. It analyzes, as a case study, descriptions of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople/Istanbul in literary works from authors such as Paul the Silentiary (d. 575-580), Taslicali Yahya Bey (d. 1582), and Edmondo de Amicis (1846-1908). The history seen through the Hagia Sophia's textual reincarnations constitutes an alternative to its mainstream history, which has often considered its conversions to a mosque and a museum as the sole turning points. Although they may have no overt connections to the building's original architectural structure, textual reincarnations of a building can still provide crucial insights into its reception in everchanging contexts.Publication Metadata only The 'underground' reception of the beats in Turkey(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013) NA; Department of Comparative Literature; Mortenson, Erik; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThis article examines how Beat texts are received in Turkey as underground literature and what that reception reveals not only about the possibilities for cultural dissent in Turkey, but the extent to which the Beats are still capable of promoting social change in general. While translations of Beat Generation texts are a fairly recent phenomenon in Turkey, the internet has provided them with additional exposure, with the result that Beat texts play a role in discussions of the growing genre of underground literature in Turkey. This study analyses that role in order to discuss questions of commodification, transgression, censorship, and cultural difference that impact Beat texts in Turkey. Beat writers offer a form of resistance that allows Turkish readers to challenge mainstream values and mount legal challenges through the classic figure of the Beat rebel. This unique situation provides insight not only into the possibilities in culturally translating an imported counterculture, but also provides a refracted view of the assumptions operating in that countercultural model as it is redeployed in a different nation at a different moment of history.Publication Metadata only Latife tekin's urban ecologies(Palgrave, 2017) Department of Comparative Literature; Ergin, Meliz; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 101428This chapter examines the interlaced environmental-political issues in Latife Tekin’s Rüyalar ve Uyanışlar Defteri and Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills. Ergin first explores the continuum between urbanization, ecological decay, and ecopolitical resistance in Rüyalar. She then turns to Berji Kristin to demonstrate that Tekin uses waste as an entry point to inquire into the tangle of material and socio-political forces that constantly change the terrain we inhabit. Ergin focuses on waste cultures in marginal settlements and the materiality of waste, respectively, to investigate the movement between the environmental and the socio-political. She argues that both Spahr and Tekin open posthuman subjectivity to affective connections with (non)human otherness without compromising the possibility of political agency and responsibility.