Tra pubblico e privato. Letteratura sulla migrazione e crisi del canone letterario

This article explores the interconnections between biographical experience and writ- ing in Turkish contemporary literature. It focuses on migration as literary topic for authors who experienced migration also in their own life. By investigating the conti- nuity between the literature on migration and the village literature (köy edebiyati) on one side, and with the journalistic activity of the same authors on the other side, it analyses the question of the literary canon in Turkish literature, and of its de nition both in the broader context of global literature and, at the national level, in relation with the debate on social memory, literature and national narratives.