Watery Archives in Contemporary Turkish and Latinx Literatures
April 9 @ 12:00 PM Reed 209 A Conversation with Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez & Esen Kara This presentation will look into contemporary Turkish and Latinx literatures in a comparative perspective, with an emphasis on narrative strategies to document catastrophic events and especially the role of theMediterranean as an unofficial archive in the contemporary Turkish novel and the thematic use of rivers and oceans in Latinx literature as mediums of memory and forgetting.
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