Founded in 2012 by Emily Chuang. Emily Publishing mainly publishes translated fiction, non-fiction and children's picture books and starts to represent selected books from Taiwan and Japan to all over the world since 2019.
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»Wenn ich nur wüsste, wo ich meine Mutterzunge verloren habe«, fragt sich die Erzählerin in Emine Sevgi Özdamars Prosadebüt von 1990. Nach vielen Jahren in Berlin ist ihr das Türkisch, ihre erste Sprache, fremd geworden. Auf der Suche nach ihren Wurzeln verliebt sie sich in den Schriftgelehrten Ibni Abdullah, der sie in die »Großvaterzunge« Arabisch, die Sprache der »heiligen« Liebe und des Korans einführt. Und sie erzählt das Märchen vom armen türkischen Bauern, der ins ferne Deutschland gelangt und sich dort als Straßenkehrer wiederfindet – wie so viele seines Volkes, das sich in den sechziger und siebziger Jahren in die Dienstbotenkaste westdeutscher Großstädte verwandelt. Zuletzt sinkt in diesem klugen, souveränen und mit koboldhafter Ironie erzählten Buch sogar Ophelia von der Bühne ihres Heimatlandes zur Putzfrau eines deutschen Theaters hinab.
Unerschrocken und mitreißend in seiner Freiheit, sprengt dieser Band alle Vorstellungen dessen, was eine Frau ihrer Zeit und Herkunft schreiben darf. Tezer Özlü stellt sich damit in eine Reihe mit Sylvia Plath und Anne Sexton. Sie erzählt zugleich autobiografisch und surreal, mit bekenntnishafter Offenheit und Gefühlsunmittelbarkeit – in einer bildstarken, betörenden und begeisternden Sprache. »Wir haben Deine Bücher in Istanbul sehr geliebt«, schreibt Emine Sevgi Özdamar in ihrem Nachwort zu Tezer Özlüs Suche nach den Spuren eines Selbstmordes, das die türkische Autorin und Übersetzerin 1982 auf Deutsch geschrieben, aber nur auf Türkisch veröffentlicht hat. Darin nimmt uns Özlü mit auf zwei Reisen: eine von Westberlin nach Prag, Triest und Turin, an die Orte von ihr verehrter Schriftsteller. Eine zweite führt in ihr Inneres. Zu ihren Träumen, Empfindungen und Wünschen. Sie steigt in den Zug und streift alles ab: die »vernunftlosen Ketten der Gesellschaft«, die »kalten Nächte der Kindheit«, die »Schlafzimmer der Nervenkliniken«, die Verfolgung nach dem Militärputsch in der Türkei: »Hier in den Gärten von Valentino wird mir klar, dass mein einziges Glück darin besteht, allem zu entfliehen.«
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Wie Raumstationen an den äußersten Ende des Universums erschienen den alten Griechen ihre Küstenstädte am Schwarzen Meers. Über Tausende von Jahren verlief hier die Grenze zwischen Europa und Asien, fast ein halbes Jahrhundert die zwischen Ostblock und westlichem Bündnis. Die dünne Schicht organischen Lebens über einer gewaltigen toten Tiefe; zwei Strömungen, deren obere westwärts, deren untere ostwärts zieht - das geheimnisvolle Meer symbolisiert geradezu die Spannung, die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen. „Last & Lost“, dem Atlas des verschwindenden Europas, folgt „Odessa Transfer“, eine Fahrt an die Grenzen früherer Imperien, an Orte des Exils und der Zuflucht. Was entsteht hier, zwischen Constanza und Odessa, Jalta und Sotschi, Batumi und Istanbul, auf den Trümmern der ältesten und der jüngsten Geschichte? In Essays, literarischen Reportagen und Erzählungen wird die Schwarzmeerregion sichtbar - als ein Raum, dessen Zauber und Zerstörtheit die poetische Einbildungskraft herausfordert. Mit Texten von Neal Ascherson, Attila Bartis, Mircea Cartarescu, Nicoleta Esinencu, Karl-Markus Gauß, Katja Lange-Müller, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Aka Morchiladze, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Katja Petrowskaja, Andrzej Stasiuk, Takis Theodoropoulos und einem Fotoessay von Andrzej Kramarz.
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The image many people have of depression is devastating - a chronic condition that leaves not only the sufferer but also their loved ones at a loss. Unfortunately, psychotherapies often focus on deficits rather than individual strengths and resources. Although this makes patients feel understood, there is a risk that they will become stuck in the role of victim. But what about those who seem to be functioning normally, those who masterfully hide their depression behind a smile? High-functioning depression" is often overlooked because people affected by it have good coping strategies to deal with everyday life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Michelle Hildebrandt, a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, shows how high-functioning depression can be recognised and how resource-oriented therapy can help not only those affected, but also other people with depression and their relatives. This book broadens the picture of depression and creates a space of hope.
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Nest of Deheubarth was one of the most notorious women of the Middle Ages, mistress of Henry I and many other men, famously beautiful and strong-willed, object of one of the most notorious abduction/elopements of the period and ancestress of one of the most famous dynasties in medieval Ireland, the Fitzgeralds. This volume sheds light on women, gender, imperialism and conquest in the Middle Ages. From it emerges a picture of a woman who, though remarkable, was not exceptional, representative not of a group of victims or pawns in the dramatic transformations of the high Middle Ages but powerful and decisive actors. The book examines beauty, love, sex and marriage and the interconnecting identities of Nest as wife/concubine/mistress, both at the time and in the centuries since her death, when for Welsh writers and other commentators she has proved a powerful symbol. ;
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Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, an emerging nation state built a particular relationship with the Ottoman past. In its simultaneous disavowal and inheritance of it, this was the new Republic of Turkey, founded in 1923. Nation-states are areas of ideological contestation. However, they are equally visible and tangible. This is thanks to the making of a new world of artefacts in build or print that represent and commemorate them in many, often contradicting ways through design practices. This book offers a thorough account of this new Turkish material world through the trajectories of commemoration; from public monuments, print media, and festive illumination to temporary and permanent architecture from the onset of the 1908 Young Turk revolution to the demise of Turkey's founding single-party regime in the late 1950s. If objects are silent actors of history, their confessions await.
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This book examines John Hilditch (1872-1930), a notorious collector of Chinese art who lied, hoaxed and manipulated in his struggle against museum experts to become a cultural authority. Previously overlooked as a pest with a dubious collection, this book uses Hilditch to interrogate how far the monumental social, cultural and political changes of the early twentieth century unsettled social and cultural hierarchies and how these hierarchies were remade. It shows how the cultural elites were forced to engage with the public and re-draw the boundaries of citizenship, expertise and high and low culture in response to unprecedented social mobility, the democratisation of culture and politics, as well as the effects of British imperialism which brought ordinary Britons access to antiquities as well as confidence to claim expertise over foreign cultures. The book will interest social and cultural historians of Modern Britain, museum scholars and art historians.
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Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
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