Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SPACES OF LONGING AND BELONGING: TERRITORIALITY, IDEOLOGY AND CREATIVE IDENTITY IN LITERATURE AND FILM, cilt.30, ss.265-282, 2019 (SSCI)
In both Pamuk's Istanbul: Memories and the City and Ackroyd's London: The Biography, written from the writers' deeply personal perspectives, the authors show their fascination with the cities where they grew up and spent most of their time as novelists. In both works, the cities are described as living entities, embracing people with many different backgrounds and giving inspiration to the writers to closely observe the cityscapes and their inhabitants. The texts combine past and present, echoing the writers' nostalgia for a glamorous past. Both books offer impressionistic viewpoints, which leads to a sense of fragmentation. However, a sense of unity is also felt in the two writers' perceptions of their urban contexts. Covering long periods of time, they illustrate certain unchanging habits of the inhabitants of Istanbul and London. The aim of this essay is to highlight melancholy in Ackroyd, and huzun (a kind of melancholy) in Pamuk, which stem from a feeling of nostalgia. Both are found in London and Istanbul respectively, for different reasons, due to the writers' specific senses of space and place.