Studying Turkey through a Graphic Lens. Issue 1 (June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Singer, Amy; Martin, Chris
• Is Part Of: Review of Middle East studies. Volume 55:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 124
• Page End: 129
• Publication Date: 2021-06
• Subjects: Turkey -- pedagogy -- political parties -- violence -- student activism -- 1970s -- graphic novel; Middle East -- Periodicals; Middle East -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Middle East -- Civilisation -- Periodicals; 956.005
• DOI: 10.1017/rms.2021.46
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2151-3481

Abstract

Abstract: In Turkish Kaleidoscope, social anthropologist and novelist Jenny White has expanded her repertoire to the graphic novel format to create an account of the violence and political chaos that pervaded Turkey in the late 1970s. 2 White builds here on her academic work and her own student experience at Hacettepe University in Ankara. Artist Ergün Gündüz has created visual interpretations of place, space, events, and emotions that bring the story to life. This review is a collaborative class exercise for "Turkey: From Atatürk to Erdoğan" at Brandeis University in the Spring 2021 semester. It reflects on the novel as a text for Turkish history; the format of the work; the aesthetic choices of artist and author; and the experience of encountering this work in the contemporary historical moment. The review incorporates student comments as direct quotations. It was co-authored by Chris Martin, a student in the course.