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“As Natural as Eating and Drinking”: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin's Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills

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“As Natural as Eating and Drinking”: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin's Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills

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Latife Tekin’s novel, Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills (1984), tells the story of a migrant community, struggling to build squatter houses in the peripheries of an industrialized city. Although the name of the city is not explicitly mentioned in the novel, in an interview Tekin refers to Istanbul as the setting of her narrative. The community described by Tekin builds a unique relationship with garbage in this urban space, which has already been discussed in various contexts extending from urbanization to magical realism. This article aims to contibute to these discussions by foregrounding Tekin’s avoidance to name poverty and by exploring her way of narrating the community’s perpetual recovery. Not only does the article analyze how Tekin writes against sterilized life styles by presenting garbage as resource, but it also suggests that this narrative approach turns out to be even more conspicuous and relevant with the recent rise of street waste pickers in Turkey. The article pursues this discussion by drawing on influential scholars of waste and literature, namely Mary Douglas, Susan Signe Morrison, and William Viney, by performing close readings of the novel, and by engaging in the secondary literature on Tekin’s work. Therefore, the article examines the squatters’ fight against all destructive forces including nature, state-run demolitions, and various communities which try to settle on the same garbage hills. Then it illustrates how Istanbul as an unnamed setting, poverty as an unnamed condition, and folk medicine as a miraculous solution to health problems caused by harsh urban conditions contribute to Tekin’s emphasis on the community’s endless recoveries from all kinds of destructions and illnesses.

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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Aralık 2022

Gönderilme Tarihi

2 Kasım 2022

Kabul Tarihi

20 Aralık 2022

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2022 Cilt: 3 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Demir Atay, H., & Atay, H. (2022). “As Natural as Eating and Drinking”: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills. Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Çeviri Çalışmaları Dergisi, 3(2), 152-170. https://doi.org/10.58306/wollt.1198629
AMA
1.Demir Atay H, Atay H. “As Natural as Eating and Drinking”: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills. DEÇ. 2022;3(2):152-170. doi:10.58306/wollt.1198629
Chicago
Demir Atay, Hivren, ve Hakan Atay. 2022. “‘As Natural as Eating and Drinking’: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills”. Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Çeviri Çalışmaları Dergisi 3 (2): 152-70. https://doi.org/10.58306/wollt.1198629.
EndNote
Demir Atay H, Atay H (01 Aralık 2022) “As Natural as Eating and Drinking”: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills. Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Çeviri Çalışmaları Dergisi 3 2 152–170.
IEEE
[1]H. Demir Atay ve H. Atay, “‘As Natural as Eating and Drinking’: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills”, DEÇ, c. 3, sy 2, ss. 152–170, Ara. 2022, doi: 10.58306/wollt.1198629.
ISNAD
Demir Atay, Hivren - Atay, Hakan. “‘As Natural as Eating and Drinking’: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills”. Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Çeviri Çalışmaları Dergisi 3/2 (01 Aralık 2022): 152-170. https://doi.org/10.58306/wollt.1198629.
JAMA
1.Demir Atay H, Atay H. “As Natural as Eating and Drinking”: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills. DEÇ. 2022;3:152–170.
MLA
Demir Atay, Hivren, ve Hakan Atay. “‘As Natural as Eating and Drinking’: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills”. Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Çeviri Çalışmaları Dergisi, c. 3, sy 2, Aralık 2022, ss. 152-70, doi:10.58306/wollt.1198629.
Vancouver
1.Hivren Demir Atay, Hakan Atay. “As Natural as Eating and Drinking”: Garbage Collection and Perpetual Recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills. DEÇ. 01 Aralık 2022;3(2):152-70. doi:10.58306/wollt.1198629