The Poetics of Migrant Everyday Life in Fakir Baykurt’s Duisburg Treni
Öz
Fakir Baykurt’s Duisburg Treni places ordinary exchanges under pressure: an interview becomes an inquiry into the interviewer’s life, and an offer of leave changes meaning when its cost is announced. I examine five stories from the 2015 Literatür edition to show how such shifts shape the collection’s social realism. Close readings follow self-address and the framing of private letters, then turn to the persistence of working time and the uncertain consequences of protest and planting. Bakhtin’s account of dialogic relations helps explain how speakers question and answer themselves. Lefebvre and Régulier clarify the reach of employment into hours ostensibly free of work. I call the connection between these narrative choices and unequal opportunities to know, answer, or act relational realism. The poetics of migrant everyday life describes its recurrence and variation across the stories. Hüseyin’s sympathy offers no justification for reading another person’s letters; elsewhere, permission to take leave proves financially unusable for some of those who requested it. The endings introduce a further uncertainty, separating what a character does from what that action may achieve. Letters and recordings serve as portable archives where the survival and renewed accessibility of words affect an encounter. By tracing the placement of questions, conditions, and responses, I extend existing thematic and structural readings of Baykurt. His social detail acquires force through the telling, and comparable pressures leave his characters with markedly different choices.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Modern Türk Edebiyatı
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Eunkyung Oh
0009-0007-9673-1367
South Korea
Yayımlanma Tarihi
1 Kasım 2026
Gönderilme Tarihi
10 Mayıs 2026
Kabul Tarihi
28 Ekim 2026
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2026 Cilt: 32 Sayı: 128