Literature and the City

A growing bibliography of resources on literature, the city in general, and specific works on Istanbul, Chicago, and Berlin.  If you find more, please share with me and the class. 

The City and Literature

Alonso, Alex. “Urban Graffiti on the City Landscape.” San Diego State University, 1998.

Anderson, Colin. “Going ‘All City’: The Spatial Politics of Graffiti.” Shift 5 (2012): 1–23. https://shiftjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/anderson.pdf.

Lovata, Troy R, and Elizabeth Olton. Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to the Present. New York: Routledge, 2016.

McNamara, Kevin. “Introduction.” In The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature, edited by Kevin McNamara, 1–14. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York: Harcourt, 1961.

Quayson, Ato, and Jini Kim Watson, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Simmel, Georg. Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms. Edited by Donald Levine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.

Comparative and World Literature

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Istanbul, Chicago, & Berlin 

Istanbul 

Aynur, Hatice. “Sketching the City with Words: Istanbul Through Time in Turkish Literary Texts.” In The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature, edited by Ato Quayson and Jini Kim Watson, 115–30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Dolcerocca, Özen Nergis. “Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Istanbul.” In Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time, by Özen Nergis Dolcerocca, 91–122. New Comparisons in World Literature. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35201-0_4.

———. Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time: Bergson, Tanpınar, Benjamin, Walser. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Ette, Ottmar. “Urbanity and Literature – Cities as Transareal Spaces of Movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar and Cécile Wajsbrot” 19, no. 3 (2011): 367–83.

Gurses, Hande. “Mirroring Istanbul.” In Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk: Existentialism and Politics, 47–63. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Havlioğlu, Didem, and Zeynep Uysal, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Literature. London: Routledge, 2023.

Heffernan, Teresa, and Daniel O’Quinn, eds. The Turkish Embassy Letters: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Buffalo, NY: Broadview Editions, 2013.

Khayyat, Efe. Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity: The World According to Auerbach, Tanpınar, and Edib. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019.

Koçu, Reşad Ekrem. İstanbul Ansiklopedisi. Istanbul: Neşriyat Kollektif Şirketi, 1944.

Narayan, Pallavi. Pamuk’s Istanbul: Self and the City. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Özen Nergis Dolcerocca. “Chronometrics in the Modern Metropolis: The City, the Past and Collective Memory in A.H. Tanpınar.” MLN, Vol. 130, No. 5, Comparative Literature Issue: Practices of the Ordinary (December 2015), Pp. 1150-1178 (29 Pages), n.d. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43932915.

Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi. Beş Şehir. İstanbul: Dergâh Yayınları, 1946.

———. Tanpinar’s “Five Cities.” Translated by Ruth Christie. London: Anthem Press, 2018.

Uysal, Zeynep. “Re-Writing the City: Five Istanbuls From the Republican Era.” History of Istanbul from Antiquity to XXIst Century, Vol. 7, Literature, Arts and Education., n.d. https://istanbultarihi.ist/612-re-writing-the-city-five- istanbuls-from-the-republican-era.

Berlin

Fernandez, Lilia. Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago. Chicago: University of       Chicago Press, 2012.

Fritzsche, Peter. Reading Berlin 1900. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Fritzsche, Peter, Paul Betts, and Greg Eghigian. “Cities Forget, Nations Remember: Berlin and Germany and the Shock of Modernity.” In Pain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History, 35–61. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Gerstenberger, Katharina. Writing the New Berlin:  The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature. New York: Boydell & Brewer; Camden House, 2008.

Gerstenberger, Katharina, and Jana Evans Braziel, eds. After the Berlin Wall: Germany and Beyond. New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2011.

Hessel, Franz. Walking in Berlin-A Flaneur in the Capital. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020.

Hessel, Franz, and Walter Benjamin. “The Flaneur’s Return.” In Walking in Berlin-A Flaneur in the Capital, xiii–xix. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020.

McMurtry, Áine. “The Strange Everyday: Divided Berlin in Prose Texts by Herta Müller and Emine Sevgi Özdamar.” German Life and Letters 71, no. 4 (n.d.): 473–94.

Nabokov, Vladimir, and Dimitri Nabokov. Details of a Sunset and Other Stories. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.

Özdamar, Emine Sevgi. The Bridge of the Golden Horn. Translated by Martin Chalmers. Suffolk: Serpentstale, 2007.

Scheffler, Karl. Berlin. Ein Stadtschicksal. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1910.

Walker, Margaret. For My People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

Wallraff, Günter. Lowest of the Low. Translated by Martin Chalmers. London: Methuen Paperback, 1985.

Walzer, Robert. Berlin Stories. Translated by Susan Bernofsky. New York: New York Review of Books, 2012.

Webber, Andrew. Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Chicago

Amezcua, Mike. Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.

Brooks, Gwendolyn. A Street in Bronzeville. New York: The Library of America, 2014.

Campolong, Kelsey. “Space and Identity in the Linguistic Landscape of a Chicago Neighborhood: The Ukrainian Village, A Case Study.” University of IL-Chicago, 2016.

Choose, Chicago. “Street Art and Murals in Chicago’s Neighborhoods,” n.d. https://www.choosechicago.com/articles/museums-art/great-neighborhoods-for-chicago-street-art/.

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press, 1984.

Cultural Affairs & Special Events. “Chicago Mural Registry,” present 2019. https://data.cityofchicago.org/Historic-Preservation/Mural-Registry/we8h-apcf.

Drake, St. Clair, and Horace Cayton. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a North City. New York: Harper and Row, 1945.

Ellis, Aimé. “‘Boys in the Hood’: Black Male Community in Richard Wright’s Native Son.” Callaloo 29, no. 1 (2006): 182–201.

Fabre, MIchel. The World of Richard Wright. Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Jackson: University of MIssissippi Press, 1985.

Flores, John. The Mexican Revolution in Chicago: Immigration Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2018.

Gloster, Hugh Morris. “American Negro Fiction: From Charles W. Chesnutt to Richard Wright.” New York Univesity, 1943.

Idowu, Mojolaoluwa. “American Citizens: The Politics of Graffiti and Public Space in Chicago.” BA, University of Chicago, 2018.

Laskurain-Ibarluzea, Patxi. “The Linguistic Landscape of Chicago’s La Villita.” In Place-Making in the Declarative City, edited by Beatrix Busse, Ingo Warnke, and Jennifer Smith, 93–118. Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.

Lyons, Kate, and Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez. “Quantifying the Linguistic Landscape A Study of Spanish-English Variation in Pilsen, Chicago.” Spanish in Context 14, no. 3 (2017): 329–62.

McMillan, Bo. “Richard Wright and the Black Metropolis: From the Great Migration to the Urban Planning Novel.” American Literature 92, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 653–80. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780875.

Marc, Stephen. “Changing Chicago Project Photographs by Stephen Marc, 1987-1988.” University of Ilinois, 1989. https://images.chicagohistory.org/search/?searchQuery=%20@Horizon%20Bib.%20No.:4230//. http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/00004209/.

Martin, Reinhold. “Chicago Schools: The Skyscraper in Translation.” In The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature, edited by Ato Quayson and Jini Kim Watson, 17–32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Ramírez, Leonard. Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago. Urban, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011.

Ramirez, Pablo. Pocho Love: Pilsen Heart Beats to Chicago Streets. Chicago, IL: LaCasa Books, 2023.

Robinson, Tracy. “Beautification or Gentrification Graffiti Removal Reports in Chicago, IL,” 2016. https://studentwork.prattsi.org/infovis/visualization/beautification-gentrification-graffiti-removal-reports-chicago-il/.

Sandburg, Carl. Chicago Poems. New York: Holt and Company, 1916.

Stewart, Katherine. “The Windy City Speaks Through Linguistic Landscapes: An Analysis of Four Chicago Neighborhoods.” Northeastern Illinois University, n.d. https://neiudc.neiu.edu/srcas/2021/s09/4.

Walker, Margaret. For My People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

Zhao, Lu. “Chicago’s Mural Registry Growing In Some Neighborhoods, But Art Vs. Graffiti Debate Leaves Others Behind,” November 10, 2019. https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/10/11/chicagos-mural-registry-growing-in-some-neighborhoods-but-art-vs-graffiti-debate-leaves-others-behind/.