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Kemalist Perspectives in Early Republican Literary Utopias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Engin Kılıç
Engin Kılıç*
Affiliation:
School of Languages, Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey, engin@sabanciuniv.edu
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Abstract

The aim of this study is to explore the nature of Turkish literary utopias written in the early republican period. As a study in history and literature, it contextualizes the ideal social order envisioned in these works. My main argument is twofold: First, I claim that these works reflect Kemalism as an ideal system. They presuppose that the present regime has in itself the dynamics that enables an ideal social order and that this ideal social order can be attained by getting rid of the practical irregularities that prevent a full-fledged realization of the present regime. With these presuppositions, they serve the efforts to turn Kemalism into a hegemonic discourse. Secondly, through a detailed analysis of these texts, I argue that Kemalism has not been a monolithic discourse, but rather that it contained different and sometimes competing currents.

Keywords

Turkish literatureTurkish utopiasTurkish NationalismAtatürk in literatureKemalism
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 36: Special Issue on Literature and the Nation , Spring 2007 , pp. 53 - 70
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2007

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