Urbanity and literature
- Transarea studies focus upon spaces as created by the movements that criss-cross them. From this point of view, from its very beginnings, literature is closely interrelated with a vectorial (and much less with a purely spatial) conception of history - and with urbanity, which plays a decisive role in Gilgamesh's travels through a (narrative) cosmos centered upon the city of Uruk. This article explores the city as a transareal space of movement in three examples of literature, with no fixed abode, around the turn of the millennium, i.e. Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar's Istanbul-Berlin Trilogy, and Cecile Wajsbrot's L'ile aux musees. These three writers project, in a very specific way, cities in motion as anagrammatic and fractal structures.
Author details: | Ottmar EtteORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413767 |
Title of parent work (English): | European Review |
Subtitle (English): | cities as transareal spaces of movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar and Cecile Wajsbrot |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe (145) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/07/24 |
Publication year: | 2011 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2018/07/24 |
Number of pages: | 17 |
Source: | European Review Vol. 19, No. 3 (2011) DOI: 10.1017/S106279871100010X |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät |
Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Romanistik | |
DDC classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Grantor: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |