Book Chapter

·2025

The Song of Immigrants

Okan Yılmaz YTU

Abstract

This article will reveal how the issue of femininity and immigration is handled in a Middle Eastern society through the texts of two of the young generation poets of contemporary Turkish poetry published in digital media.The first of the poets in the article, Yaprak Damla Yıldırım -an immigrant- writes about her own experiences. Yaprak Damla Yıldırım turns her feminist activism into a literary action by publishing her poems in a Turkish digital magazine called Cin Ayşe. The other poet, Mihrap Aydın, reveals the connection between herself and the upper generation women in her family with immigration. Through these two poets, the chronological relationship of immigration trauma will be investigated and the narrative memory left from grandmothers to grandchildren will be examined.

Keywords

Immigration History Archaeology

Subject Areas

Turkey's Politics and Society ·Political Science and International Relations ·Social Sciences
Media Discourse and Social Analysis ·Sociology and Political Science ·Social Sciences
German Colonialism and Identity Studies ·Literature and Literary Theory ·Social Sciences