Turkish and Latin American World Literature encounters

This thesis examines a corpus of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Turkish and Latin American literature in an attempt to offer fresh and innovative comparative avenues for non-Eurocentric world literature encounters. Through a multilayered analytical approach encompassing a transhistorical, transnational, and translational framework, I scrutinise Turkish-Latin American literary relations by focussing on a selection of texts that intertwine political critiques with fantastic, magical realism, gothic, surrealist, and magical realist modes. I investigate how divergent complex writings acquire and negotiate world literature status by shedding light on the visible manifold intersections between Turkish and Latin American productions. The thesis is further enriched by theoretical insights drawn from socio-cultural historiographies, aesthetics of narratology, world literature, translation, circulation, and reception, benefitting from the theories proposed by David Damrosch, Pascale Casanova, Lawrence Venuti, Emily Apter, Francesca Orsini, and Mariano Siskind, among them, as well as concepts from the discipline of translation studies.