Full Description
This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe. Together, the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to the partitions of the twentieth century and the Muslim diasporas in Europe.
Turkey and Pakistan have been subject to two of the largest compulsory population transfers of the twentieth century. They have also been the sites for large magnitudes of emigration during the second half of the twentieth century, creating influential diasporas in European cities such as London and Berlin. Discrimination has been both the cause and result of migration: while internal problems compelled citizens to emigrate from their countries, blatant discriminatory and ideological constructs shaped their experiences in their countries of arrival. Read together, the Partition emerges from the essays in Part I not as a pathology specific to the Balkans, Middle East, or South Asia, but as a central problematic of the new political realities of decolonization and nation formation. The essays in Part II demonstrate the layered histories and multiple migration paths that have shaped the experiences of Berliners and Londoners.
This analysis furthers the study of modernism and migration across the borders of, not only the nation-state, but also class, race, and gender. As a result, this book will be of interest to a broad multidisciplinary academic audience including students and faculty, artists, architects and planners, as well as non-specialist general public interested in visual arts, architecture and urban literature.
Contents
Introduction: Migration and Discrimination Part 1: Two Partitions 1. Partitions and an Anti-Xenophobic Architectural Historiography 2. Living on Another Displacement's Ruins: Adana's Döşeme Neighborhood in Turkey 3. September 6-7, 1955-ongoing: Discrimination, Dispossession, and Practices of Memory and Survival 4. Homogenizing the Border: Kars after the Pogrom of 1955 5. 1960s Tax Law and Non-Muslim Exodus from Istanbul: Turkification of the City 6. Art and the 1947 Partition of South Asia 7. Partition Migration and Urbicide in Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy Man 8. "He never said that you leave for ever": South Asian Partition and Film Migration to Pakistan 9.The Perpetual Mohajirs: Leon Henrard's Report on Pakistan's Future 10. Partition Thinking and the East African Gaze toward Pakistan Part 2: Two Diasporas 11. Kreuzberg and an Anti-Discriminatory Architectural Historiography 12. Exile, Postcards, and a Return to Cold War Berlin 13. Migrants and Muses: Güney Dal's First Novel Attracts Little Attention When Published in German Translation 14. Berlin as an Urban Synecdoche for Immigration 15. Conceiving Solidarity Across Borders 16. Be/longing Berlin: Remembering Futures in Migration 17. Pakistani Diaspora Artists in the UK 18. Rasheed Araeen: An Aesthetics of Resistance 19. The Cinema of Hanif Kureshi: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 20. Fun^Da^Mental's "Jihad Rap"
