Jameson Kısmet Bell'den Yeni Yayın

 Kısmet Bell, Jameson. "A Literary Landscape of Istanbul: Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Criticism." Configurations, vol. 32 no. 4, 2024, p. 351-373. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/942088

In this paper, Kısmet Bell explores the emergence of short expressive ensembles (SEE) in Istanbul's public spaces from 2020 to 2023, using linguistic landscaping methods to highlight how literary fragments thrive outside traditional book formats. Kısmet Bell considers how urban environments shape literary genres and challenge conventional collecting practices.  

Abstract:

 This article presents a literary landscape of short expressive ensembles (SEEs) that appeared in Istanbul's public locations between 2020 and 2023. By documenting the space and time of public literary genres, I follow in the footsteps of twentieth-century literary critics who explored literature in nontraditional locations. I supplement the work of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Marshall McLuhan, and more recently Katherine Hayles with "linguistic landscaping" methods from sociolinguistics to emphasize three important points about literary genres that are distributed in space and time. First, mapping literary fragments in public locations allows for them to remain in their diverse polysemic habitats rather than conform to book-length collections, the traditional medium of literary studies. Second, linguistic landscaping offers a more robust taxonomy for documenting where, when, and in what material and media writings appear, providing data for further study of diverse topics. Finally, by exploring urban areas for literary genres, we see neighborhoods provide multilingual instances of literature that do not conform to national and monolingual collecting practices. By mapping examples of short genres, this project reveals that urban spaces have their own literary landscapes that are in dialogue with, contribute to, and interrupt our historical and contemporary urban imaginaries.