The refracted Western gaze and the modernist chronotope: multilingual German transnationals in İstanbul
Multilingua, 2026 (AHCI, SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1515/multi-2026-0027
- Dergi Adı: Multilingua
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, Education Abstracts, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Political Science Complete, MLA International Bibliography, Political Science Abstract (IPSA), EBSCO Communication Source, Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO), Communication Source (EBSCO), Sociology Source Ultimate (EBSCO)
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Western gaze, modernist chronotope, transnationalism, German, Turkish, Bat & imath; bak & imath;& scedil;& imath;, modernist kronotop, ulus & ouml;tesicilik, Almanca, T & uuml;rk & ccedil;e
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The present study is concerned with the notion of Western gaze in the context of German transnationals based in Turkey, a non-Western setting that did not go through a colonial intervention but has been through an actual Western-style modernization. Reporting on a life history study, the paper analyzes how the participants construct and refract the Western gaze posed on the Turks in the framework of Turkish modernity as an analytical heuristic. Analyses of participant narratives suggest that the construction of the gaze is a multilingual process that concerns the German-Turkish transnational space. Against the background of their migratory trajectories and their relocations in Turkey, the participants pose a refracted gaze on the Turkish Other as a modern subject.