Precarious Intimacies: Politics and Solidarities in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn.

Gegenwartsliteratur: A German Studies Yearbook, vol. 17, 2018: pp. 115-133. In this article I propose the notion of precarious intimacies as entry point into the representation of the political in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's work. Through an analysis of Die Brücke vom Go/denen Horn, I explore intimacies as sites of transformation and political potentiality in the novel, as spaces that nurture political solidarities and spaces in which their loss is most keenly felt. Reading for precarious intimacies reveals aesthetic strategies that highlight the politically generative capacity of intimacy in the face of precarity, but also enacts a politics of interpretation that might challenge the conditions of precarity. I thus both examine the politics and aesthetics of intimacy as represented in the text, and consider the interpretive work of reading intimacy politically