Archival Dispersals: Literary Magazines as Mobile and Fragmentary Archives

This article reconceptualizes the fragmentary status of archive migration by focusing on Turkish German literary magazines Ezgi, Parantez, Şiir-lik and Allıturna. In first part, I argue that as intrinsically diasporic, mobile spatially dispersed media provide us with a model unsettles our understanding archival engagement well Foucault’s theory archive. The fragmented this literay calls for anecdotal readings which exemplify element chance randomness characterizes research in general into question medial institutional conditions access to fragments. second contrast these archives national archive, imagines itself be an plenitude completeness. While latter valorizes preservation uniform past , former prioritizes radical accessibility dispersion, resists “house arrest” archivization demands always motion at risk dissemination no return.