Tag: Turkish Literature

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Dear Europe: I Promise I’m Not Staying (On Having a Turkish Passport & Nazlı Koca’s Novel The Applicant)

Neriman Kuyucu

Sure, I had the privilege of choosing to leave my homeland, but how much of that choice was really mine to begin with? Continue reading Dear Europe: I Promise I’m Not Staying (On Having a Turkish Passport & Nazlı Koca’s Novel The Applicant)

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Ece Temelkuran’s Together: Heart-Shaped Stones, Whitman & Us

Neriman Kuyucu

Together is, indeed, a crucial text that is brutally, lovingly, and magically real. It is the ultimate celebration of our kind and what we can achieve to not only survive but to survive beautifully. Continue reading Ece Temelkuran’s Together: Heart-Shaped Stones, Whitman & Us

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A Turkish American Story: A Review of Selma Ekrem’s ‘Unveiled’

Neriman Kuyucu

Ekrem’s is a story of displacement and self-realization—a story of reconciliation between Eastern and Western cultural codes within a transcultural space as she grows into independence as a woman and an immigrant. Continue reading A Turkish American Story: A Review of Selma Ekrem’s ‘Unveiled’