Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present

Acknowledgements
Praise For Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present
Contents
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1 Introduction: Right to the City Novels in Modern Turkish Fiction
	The Right to the City
	Right to the City Novels
	Objectives of the Book
	The Methodology
	Organisation of the Book
	Explanation of the Quotations from Novels
	Bibliography
2 From the Barricades to the City as Art:  The Concept of the Right to the City
	Paris After Haussman
	The Flâneur
	Alienation in the Metropolis
	The Right to the City
	Citizenship in the Urban Context
	Bibliography
3 Passionate Belongings and Intense Longings: Tracing the Right to the City in Istanbul
	Istanbul’s Complex Phases
	Urbanisation or Pseudo-Urbanisation?
	Multiple Urbanities
	Laying Claim to the City
	Women: “The Locomotive of Migration”
	Bibliography
4 Istanbul Meets Its New Members: An Overview of Istanbul’s History as Regards Migration
	The 1950s and the 1960s
	The 1970s
	The 1980s
	The 1990s
	The Late 1990s and the 2000s
	The Year 2010 and After
	Bibliography
5 Imagining the Migration Experience: A Humanist Approach
	The Homesick Birds: An Empathetic Look at the Urbanities of the Future
		The Tabula Rasa Migrant
		The Gendered Portrayal of Migration
		Conclusion
	Uncle Halo and Two Oxen: A Sarcastic Look at Rural to Urban Migration and Its Discontents
		‘Citizens’ Intimidated in the Public Realm
		Conclusion
	The Homesick Birds and Uncle Halo and Two Oxen: A Comparative Analysis
	Bibliography
6 Insider’s Knowledge: Survival in the Jungle of Istanbul
	Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills: A Satirical Rebuttal to Normative Urbanity
		An Uneasy Encounter: Shanty Community vs the Radical Left
		Who Is More the Migrant in the Struggle for Survival?
		Conclusion
	Heavy Roman(i): An Alternative Urbanity in the Dionysiac City
		Women of Kolera
		Cosmopolitan Kolera
		Conclusion
	Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills and Heavy Roman(I): A Comparative Analysis
	Bibliography
7 Istanbul’s Threshold: Alienation and the Experience of the Periphery
	On the Periphery: Existence in the Grim City
		The Other Istanbul
		Life in Taşlıbağ
		Idling in the City
		Conclusion
	It Takes All Kinds: The Istanbul Forgotten in the ‘Varoş’
		Urbanity Through Consumption
		Identifying Kozluk
		Conclusion
	On the Periphery and It Takes All Kinds: A Comparative Analysis
	Bibliography
8 Changing Migrants, Transforming Istanbul: A Strangeness in My Mind as a Love Story of a Man and His City
	Mevlut’s Endless Walks
	A Home in the City
	Stigmatised Neighbourhoods: Between Fiction and Factuality
	Men and Women in the City
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
9 Conclusion: Reading the Right to the City Novels in a New Istanbul
	Bibliography
Index