Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present

Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present  analyses the representation of rural migration to Istanbul in literature, placing Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the right to the city at the centre of the argument. Using a framework of critical urban theory, the book examines Orhan Kemal’s Gurbet Kuşları [ The Homesick Birds ] (1962); Muzaffer İzgü’s Halo Dayı ve İki Öküz [ Uncle Halo and Two Oxen ] (1973); Latife Tekin’s Berci Kristin Çöp Masalları [ Berji Kristin