Bir Ankara Kartografyası: Ölmeye Yatmak ve Başkent Oluşun Mekânları.

Adalet Ağaoğlu captures mostly the years between 1938 and 1960 of the capital in the first novel, Ölmeye Yatmak [Lying to Die], of the series which consists of four novels that she brought together as Dar Zamanlar [Narrow Times]. This article intends to discuss Ölmeye Yatmak as an urban cartography and re-read the spaces of becoming capital through the spatial narratives of the novel. In terms of methodology, on a theoretical ground interrelating literature, urban and cartography, the fragments of the text concentrating in space and containing spatiality are critically analyzed. These fragments are discussed together with the urbanization and modernization literature of Ankara. In the traces of the cartographic spatial narratives of the novel, it is claimed that two axis of becoming capital become apparent. The first axis reveals that the identities of the capital and its inhabitants intersect in terms of representation and those reproduce each other. The second axis follows the spatial traces of what is outside the dominant and unrepresented; concentrates on the other places of the capital, different forms of urban segregation, transcends the duality of modern/traditional and creates a deviation line from being to becoming. This cartographic re-reading creates an opportunity for discussion through the conceptualization of identities, representation and becoming capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]