Autobiographical Themes in Turkish Literature: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives

“Autobiographical writing“ is inclusive of all self-narratives and presentations such as memoirs, confessions, diaries, personal notes, autobiographical fiction and poetry. The authors present scholarly papers on topics ranging from recent developments in autobiographical studies to practices of autobiographical writing in Europe and the Middle East in comparative perspective, and finally on the questions of self and the Other, history and community, and fact and fiction in Turkish literature.