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

N. Buket Cengiz is Lecturer at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Right to the City Novels in Modern Turkish Fiction.- Chapter 2 From the Barricades to the City as Art: The Idea of the Right to the City.- Chapter 3 Passionate Belongings and Intense Longings: Tracing the Right to the City in Istanbul.- Chapter 4 Istanbul Meets Its New Members: An Overview of Istanbul’s History as Regards Migration.- Chapter 5 ‘Istanbulites’ and ‘Non-Istanbulites’ in Turkish Novel: Creation of the Corpus.- Chapter 6 The Homesick Birds: An Empathetic Look at the Urbanites of the Future.- Chapter 7 Uncle Halo and Two Oxen: A Sarcastic Look at Rural to Urban Migration and Its Discontents.- Chapter 8 The Homesick Birds and Uncle Halo and Two Oxen: A Comparative Analysis.- Chapter 9 Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills: A Satirical Look at Uniform Urbanity.- Chapter 10 Heavy Roman(i): An Alternative Urbanity in the Dionysiac City.- Chapter11 Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills andHeavy Roman(i): A Comparative Analysis.- Chapter 12 On the Periphery: Existence in the Grim City.- Chapter 13 It Takes All Kinds: The Istanbul Forgotten in the ‘Varoş’.- Chapter 14 On the Periphery and It Takes All Kinds: A Comparative Analysis.- Chapter 15 A Strangeness in My Mind: A Love Story of a Man and His City.- Chapter 16 Conclusion.

“Cengiz convinces the reader that the right to the city is a common ‘vein’ across the seven novels and perhaps in other novels set in Istanbul. … Cengiz’s use of literary analysis produces a new perspective not only of the seven novels, but also on questions around migration, right to the city, and Istanbul’s urban transformation.” (Karina Goulordava, Urban Geography, April 7, 2022)