A READING OF THE TURKISH NOVEL: THREE WAYS OF CONSTITUTING THE “TURKISH MODERN”

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2009-10-26

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Ertuğrul, Kürşad

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This study gives voice to three ways of becoming modern in the Turkish experience through a reading of the novels of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Oğuz Atay, and Orhan Pamuk. The first possibility, represented by the works of Tanpınar, is more conservative and defensive, concerned with preserving what is considered authentic culture. Anti-individualistic, it nonetheless attempts to appropriate Western culture and the change generated by its impact within “the traditional essence.” The second possibility, represented by the works of Atay, is open ended: it reaches beyond the limitations of the Turkish social-historical domain to create a new individual (and implicitly social) existence while remaining critical of Western “individuality.” The last possibility, represented by the works of Pamuk, expresses the dominant concept of “modernization” in Turkey, which equates modernization with Westernization. Individualization comes to mean replication of “Western individuality.”

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/28156

Journal

International Journal of Middle East Studies

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743809990109

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Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Article

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K. Ertuğrul, “A READING OF THE TURKISH NOVEL: THREE WAYS OF CONSTITUTING THE “TURKISH MODERN”,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, pp. 635–652, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/28156.