Rewriting the Legacy of the Turkish Exile of Comparative Literature

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" Rewriting the Legacy of the Turkish Exile of Comparative Literature "
Firat Oruc

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075810
Doc. No	:	LA119439
Call No	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00303007‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Firat Oruc
Title & Author	:	Rewriting the Legacy of the Turkish Exile of Comparative Literature [Article]\ Firat Oruc
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of World Literature
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/3
Page No	:	334–353
Abstract	:	Numerous critics have revisited the Turkish exile of “the founding fathers” of humanist philology, Erich Auerbach and Leo Spitzer, in the period between the rise of Nazism in Germany and the end of World War II. Yet these recuperative analyses have been centered on the role of the experience of cultural displacement in the intellectual transformation of the émigré scholars. By contrast, this article offers a critical analysis of how the Turkish end of humanism (especially in the case of Auerbach and Spitzer’s students) was entangled with the politics of Kemalist cultural reforms. If comparative literature was “invented” during the Istanbul exile of Spitzer and Auerbach, this article re-writes this invention process by highlighting the semantic and ideological inflections it took in the hands of the Turkish humanists. Numerous critics have revisited the Turkish exile of “the founding fathers” of humanist philology, Erich Auerbach and Leo Spitzer, in the period between the rise of Nazism in Germany and the end of World War II. Yet these recuperative analyses have been centered on the role of the experience of cultural displacement in the intellectual transformation of the émigré scholars. By contrast, this article offers a critical analysis of how the Turkish end of humanism (especially in the case of Auerbach and Spitzer’s students) was entangled with the politics of Kemalist cultural reforms. If comparative literature was “invented” during the Istanbul exile of Spitzer and Auerbach, this article re-writes this invention process by highlighting the semantic and ideological inflections it took in the hands of the Turkish humanists.
Descriptor	:	comparative literature
Descriptor	:	humanism
Descriptor	:	nationalism
Descriptor	:	philology
Descriptor	:	Turkey
Descriptor	:	World Literature
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00303007‬