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From New Corbuzon to UnLondon, China Miéville's works show a preoccupation with the city which transcends the function of setting and serves as a subtext to the plot. As one of the most prominent representatives of weird fiction Miéville constructs cityscapes that fascinate the reader with their eccentricity and strangeness, but also with their social, historical and architectural complexity. In "Perdido Street Station" the eponymous landmark in New Corbuzon is essential for the denouement of the plot rather than merely a backdrop. The city is a character in its own right. This is also and especially true for Miéville's 2009 novel "The City and the City". Here, the city seems at first normal, then alien and in conclusion utterly quotidian. The way the literary space and place is built permeates everything in the novel: the way the characters act, the crime plot, the philosophy and mood. At the core, "The City and the City" captures the everyday creation and maintenance of social space and illustrates the human capacity to deal with conflicting, layered realities of communal life and the human condition.
The "City and the City" is set in the twin city states of Besźel and Ul Qoma that occupy much of the same geographical space, but are perceived as two very different cities. The borders between the cities are invisible and intangible, but reinforced by citizens by "unseeing" and "unsensing" the other one. Meaning: someone in Besźel must ignore everything Ul Qoman even what is right next to them. Some parts of the cityscape are totally in one city but quite a few are "cross-hatched", meaning in either city depending on what is unseen. Unsight is an acquired habit, but one that is performed unconsciously. To unsee the other city is an integral part of being a citizen and important in the socialiation of children. Acknowledging the other city even accidentally is a serious crime called breaching punished by an all-seeing, all-powerful agency named Breach. Why and how the state of separation between the cities came to pass is unknown: an event ambiguously called "cleavage" split or united the cities.
"The City and the City" won several awards for fantasy writing, although it is fantastic only in one aspect and – plotwise – the novel is crime fiction: a police procedural with noir and hard-boiled touches – genres that lay claim on gritty realism. It is precisely this uncertainty of genre that allows a subversive reading of the text and contributes to the social criticism therein. In the novel Inspector Tyador Borlú from Besźel investigates the murder of foreign student Mahalia Greary across the cities and uncovers a conspiracy to exploit the cities' cultural heritage for profit.
Bu çalışmada, göç hareketleri ve post kolonyal süreç nedenleriyle çok tartışılan Cultural Turns, yani "Spatial Turn" uzantısı bağlamında "büyük kent" ya da "metropol" kavramı ele alınacaktır.
Edebi bir eserin baş figürü için bir metropolün kaçınılmaz tuzakları yabancılık ve yabancı yaşam biçimleridir; bu anlamda burada Alman dilinde kaleme alınmış iki metinde (Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz und E. Sevgi Özdamar: Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde. Wedding-Pankow 1976/77) mekan olarak büyük kent Berlin, baş figürler tarafından yaşantılanan yordamsızlık, hayatta kalma stratejileri ve yabancı yaşam biçimleriyle karşılaşmaları bakımından edebi, sosyolojik ve aynı zamanda mekana ilişkin çıkarımlarla analiz edilecek ve anlamlandırma girişimleri öne çıkarılacaktır.
Mekân burada her şeyi saklayan ve insanların kişiliklerini biçimleyen anlam yüklü ve kimlik kazandırıcı bir kabuk manasındadır. Metropol ne denli tehlikeli ve çekici ise orada yaşamak o denli zordur, çünkü metropol, insanları kendine çeker, zayıfları ezerken, içindeki kaotik yaşam, inceleyeceğimiz romanlarda olduğu gibi, kötüleri besler.
In mehreren Fragmenten der Universalgeschichte des Nikolaos von Damaskus (64-4 v. Chr.) werden Fälle von Anthropophagie thematisiert. Diese Überlieferungen gehen zwar auf ältere Quellen zurück (schließlich hat der Geschichtsschreiber sein Werk weitgehend kompiliert), allerdings wählte Nikolaos seine Vorlagen bewusst aus und setzte individuelle Akzente, sodass die Betrachtung von Erzählmotiven zu einer Erschließung der Universalgeschichte beitragen kann. Die Belege für Anthropophagie bei Nikolaos werden hier erstmals zusammengestellt und untersucht. Im Zentrum der Analyse steht die Frage nach dem diskursiven Umgang des Historikers mit dem Phänomen sowie nach der Funktion des Narrativs in seinem Werk.
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