Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Beginnings: Reading Memory
2. From Berlin’s Old West to Istanbul’s Beyoğlu: Narratives of Memory, Narratives of Lost Topographies
3. Incompleteness as Anti-Autobiography: The Production and Publication Histories of Benjamin’s and Karasu’s Memory Narratives
4. Bilge Karasu in Historical Context: Identity Formation in the Shadow of “Turkification”
5. Forgetting, Remembering, and the Workings of Collective Memory: Survival and the Retrieval of Memory Traces
6. “Dialectical Images” in Beyoğlu’s Black Waters: The Photograph as Testimony
7. Remembering as Distortion: Visual and Aural Traces of Alterity
8. Spatiality as the Inscription of the Past
9. Crazy Meryem as the Saint of Beyoğlu’s Marginalized: Toward a Final Reading of Difference
Conclusion
Addendum: Biographical Notes on Bilge Karasu
References
Index