Nergis Ertürk
Biographic Data
| ID | 196401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nergis Ertürk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nergis |
| FAMILY NAME | Ertürk |
| SIGNATURE | ERTÜRK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ajami Comparatism
Taking Annette Damayanti Lienau’s recently published book Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures as a starting point, this forum explores possible points of convergence between comparative literary studies and ajami studies, broadly understood. Contributors working at the intersections of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Javanese, Malay, Spanish, and Wolof studies were invited to reflect on the broader imp…
Introduction
Introducing a cluster on the prison writings of Kurdish human rights lawyer and politician Selahattin Demirtaş, this article explores Demirtaş’s multifaceted understanding of literature as storytelling (anlatı) and fiction (kurgu)
Introduction
Introducing the forum on the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Gayatri Spivak’s Death of a Discipline, this essay addresses the implications of Spivak’s book for the historical present
Forum
Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiēsis in Black by R. A. Judy is a majestic work of comparative literary criticism both in its form and its content, moving across multiple languages and intellectual and creative traditions. Distinguished critics working in different fields were invited to reflect on the book’s imagination of another humanism and of a comparative common through the freedman Tom Windham’s words “We should have our liberty ca…
Nâzım Hikmet and the Prose of Communism
“Socialism,” Régis Debray has written, “was born with a printers’ docket around its neck. . . . Book, school, newspaper: for the party militant, the greatest emphasis lay on the third.” This essay addresses the imagination of an underground press in the Turkish communist Nâzım Hikmet’s autobiographical novel Life’s Good, Brother, published posthumously in 1964. Taking into consideration Nâzım’s recently published correspondence and reports in the…
Lenin Via Cavid
This essay reflects on postcolonial and recent Marxist scholarship by way of the work of the Azerbaijani playwright Hüseyn Cavid (1882–1941), who wrote some of the most untimely plays of the revolutionary period in the Caucasus. Thematizing revolutionary figures from the Islamic past, these works included among others the verse play Şeyx Sәnʿan (Sheik Senan), serialized between 1915 and 1916 and dramatizing the life of a legendary twelfth-century…
Marxism, Communism, and Translation
In introducing this special issue of boundary 2, this essay seeks to challenge the derivative conception of Marxist-communist translation that posits a hierarchical distinction between universal and particular forms of Marxism and communism. Reconceptualizing translation (via Walter Benjamin) as a necessary structural possibility inherent in the original texts, the essay argues that translation is a constitutive feature of all Marxisms and commun…
Toward a Literary Communism
This essay traces the legacy of the 1926 Baku Turcological Congress for postcolonial studies and comparative literary criticism. An assembly of 131 delegates, including such prominent figures as the Crimean Tatar Turcologist Bekir Sıdkı Çobanzade, the Kazak revolutionary, linguist, and reformer Ahmed Baytursun, the German Turcologist Theodor Menzel, and Vasilii Bartol’d, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the congress was convened in Bak…
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. T…
Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey
This article offers a critical overview of the Turkish Republican language reforms, contextualizing the reforms as part of a discourse of phonocentrism—a programmatic identification of the diglossia of Ottoman Turkish and its writing system as an “inadequacy” and a problem—which first matured in the mid-nineteenth century with the unprecedented intensification of print and translational practices. While mid-nineteenth century proposals to simplif…
Those Outside the Scene
This article intervenes in both national and transnational critical discourses on the work of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, performing a close reading of Pamuk’s controversial 2002 novel Snow, dismissed by critics in Turkey as a “blunder” and celebrated by the Swedish Academy as “a geological core sample of all levels of Turkish society.” Neither a guide to a new secular politics, nor a verisimilar portrait of Turkey as it really is, I …
Marxism, Communism, and Translation
In introducing this special issue of boundary 2, this essay seeks to challenge the derivative conception of Marxist-communist translation that posits a hierarchical distinction between universal and particular forms of Marxism and communism. Reconceptualizing translation (via Walter Benjamin) as a necessary structural possibility inherent in the original texts, the essay argues that translation is a constitutive feature of all Marxisms and commun…
Toward a Literary Communism
This essay traces the legacy of the 1926 Baku Turcological Congress for postcolonial studies and comparative literary criticism. An assembly of 131 delegates, including such prominent figures as the Crimean Tatar Turcologist Bekir Sıdkı Çobanzade, the Kazak revolutionary, linguist, and reformer Ahmed Baytursun, the German Turcologist Theodor Menzel, and Vasilii Bartol’d, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the congress was convened in Bak…
Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey
This article offers a critical overview of the Turkish Republican language reforms, contextualizing the reforms as part of a discourse of phonocentrism—a programmatic identification of the diglossia of Ottoman Turkish and its writing system as an “inadequacy” and a problem—which first matured in the mid-nineteenth century with the unprecedented intensification of print and translational practices. While mid-nineteenth century proposals to simplif…
Nâzım Hikmet and the Prose of Communism
“Socialism,” Régis Debray has written, “was born with a printers’ docket around its neck. . . . Book, school, newspaper: for the party militant, the greatest emphasis lay on the third.” This essay addresses the imagination of an underground press in the Turkish communist Nâzım Hikmet’s autobiographical novel Life’s Good, Brother, published posthumously in 1964. Taking into consideration Nâzım’s recently published correspondence and reports in the…
Those Outside the Scene
This article intervenes in both national and transnational critical discourses on the work of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, performing a close reading of Pamuk’s controversial 2002 novel Snow, dismissed by critics in Turkey as a “blunder” and celebrated by the Swedish Academy as “a geological core sample of all levels of Turkish society.” Neither a guide to a new secular politics, nor a verisimilar portrait of Turkey as it really is, I …
Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey
This article offers a critical overview of the Turkish Republican language reforms, contextualizing the reforms as part of a discourse of phonocentrism—a programmatic identification of the diglossia of Ottoman Turkish and its writing system as an “inadequacy” and a problem—which first matured in the mid-nineteenth century with the unprecedented intensification of print and translational practices. While mid-nineteenth century proposals to simplif…
Those Outside the Scene
This article intervenes in both national and transnational critical discourses on the work of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, performing a close reading of Pamuk’s controversial 2002 novel Snow, dismissed by critics in Turkey as a “blunder” and celebrated by the Swedish Academy as “a geological core sample of all levels of Turkish society.” Neither a guide to a new secular politics, nor a verisimilar portrait of Turkey as it really is, I …
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. T…
Toward a Literary Communism
This essay traces the legacy of the 1926 Baku Turcological Congress for postcolonial studies and comparative literary criticism. An assembly of 131 delegates, including such prominent figures as the Crimean Tatar Turcologist Bekir Sıdkı Çobanzade, the Kazak revolutionary, linguist, and reformer Ahmed Baytursun, the German Turcologist Theodor Menzel, and Vasilii Bartol’d, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the congress was convened in Bak…
Lenin Via Cavid
This essay reflects on postcolonial and recent Marxist scholarship by way of the work of the Azerbaijani playwright Hüseyn Cavid (1882–1941), who wrote some of the most untimely plays of the revolutionary period in the Caucasus. Thematizing revolutionary figures from the Islamic past, these works included among others the verse play Şeyx Sәnʿan (Sheik Senan), serialized between 1915 and 1916 and dramatizing the life of a legendary twelfth-century…
Marxism, Communism, and Translation
In introducing this special issue of boundary 2, this essay seeks to challenge the derivative conception of Marxist-communist translation that posits a hierarchical distinction between universal and particular forms of Marxism and communism. Reconceptualizing translation (via Walter Benjamin) as a necessary structural possibility inherent in the original texts, the essay argues that translation is a constitutive feature of all Marxisms and commun…
Nâzım Hikmet and the Prose of Communism
“Socialism,” Régis Debray has written, “was born with a printers’ docket around its neck. . . . Book, school, newspaper: for the party militant, the greatest emphasis lay on the third.” This essay addresses the imagination of an underground press in the Turkish communist Nâzım Hikmet’s autobiographical novel Life’s Good, Brother, published posthumously in 1964. Taking into consideration Nâzım’s recently published correspondence and reports in the…
Introduction
Introducing the forum on the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Gayatri Spivak’s Death of a Discipline, this essay addresses the implications of Spivak’s book for the historical present
Forum
Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiēsis in Black by R. A. Judy is a majestic work of comparative literary criticism both in its form and its content, moving across multiple languages and intellectual and creative traditions. Distinguished critics working in different fields were invited to reflect on the book’s imagination of another humanism and of a comparative common through the freedman Tom Windham’s words “We should have our liberty ca…
Introduction
Introducing a cluster on the prison writings of Kurdish human rights lawyer and politician Selahattin Demirtaş, this article explores Demirtaş’s multifaceted understanding of literature as storytelling (anlatı) and fiction (kurgu)
Ajami Comparatism
Taking Annette Damayanti Lienau’s recently published book Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures as a starting point, this forum explores possible points of convergence between comparative literary studies and ajami studies, broadly understood. Contributors working at the intersections of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Javanese, Malay, Spanish, and Wolof studies were invited to reflect on the broader imp…
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