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Louise Erdrich'in Love Medicine Adlı Romanının Türk Kültürel Benzerlikleri Üzerine Analizi: Erdrich'in Love Medicine Romanında Türk Temasını Bulma

Year 2023, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 111 - 129, 25.12.2023

Abstract

Amerika; yerliler, Meksikalı Amerikalılar, Japon Amerikalılar ve bunlar gibi farklı etnik grupların birleşiminden oluşmaktadır. Yerli Amerikalılar bunların içinden en eskileridir ve Amerika’nın esas yapı taşlarını oluşturmaktadır. Bu nedenle, Amerika’nın etnik farklılıklardan oluşan bir ülke olduğunu söylemek yanlış olmaz. Diğer etnik gruplar gibi yerliler de beyaz Amerika’da pek çok zorluk ile kültürel ve fiziksel ayrımcılık yaşamıştır. Yerli Amerikalıların ataları uzun ve güçlü tarihleriyle bilinmektedir, çünkü gelenekleri köklü ve bağlayıcı aile değerlerine dayanır. Geçmişlerine ve aile kültürlerine saygılarından dolayı, yerliler toplu yaşamı inşa etmişlerdir ve Amerika bireyselci bakış açısıyla bu düzene karşı çıkmaktadır. Bu nedenle, tarih boyunca yerliler ile beyaz Amerika arasında devam eden bir çatışma olmuştur. Bunun yanı sıra, Yerli Amerikalılar ile Türkler arasındaki bağlantı tarihte uzun yıllar tartışma konusu olmuştur.

Louise Erdich’in kitabı Love Medicine hangi yönlerden yerlilerin motiflerini yansıtmaktadır? Yerli Amerikalılar ve Türkler arasındaki esas ilişki nedir? Erdich Yerli Amerikalıların tarihine nasıl yaklaşmıştır? Bu çalışma, Türk ve Amerikan kültürleri arasındaki yakın benzerlikleri ifade edilen sorular çerçevesinde yansıtmaya çalışacaktır.

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The Analysis of Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine in The Aspects of Turkish Cultural Similarities: Finding Turkish Motifs Inside Erdrich’s Love Medicine

Year 2023, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 111 - 129, 25.12.2023

Abstract

In America, there are numerous ethnic diversities, such as Indigenous people, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, etc. Native Americans are the oldest nation, which constructs the essential origin in the U.S., so it can be said that America was created with various patterns of ethnic minorities. Like other ethnic groups, Native Americans encounter many hardships and discriminations, such as cultural and physical assimilations in the white dominant American system. Ancestors of Native people are known for their long and robust history because their traditions are based upon strong and unifying family values. Because of respecting their past and family traditions, Indigenous people construct their communal way of life, and America is against this notion with its individualistic outlook towards life. Thus, throughout history, there have always been great clashes between the whites and Native people. Besides, many debates have existed about the relationship between Native Americans and Turks throughout history. From which perspectives does Louise Erdrich reflect the Native American motifs in Love Medicine? What is the essential relation between the Native Americans and the Turks? How does Erdrich approach the history of Native Americans? This study sheds light on these questions with the close similarities between the Turkish and American cultures.

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  • Boorstin, D. J. (1948). The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/lostworldofthoma006951mbp
  • Erdrich, L. (1984). Love Medicine. A Bantam Book Holt, Rinehart & Winston Edition: U.S. FamilySearch.org. (2021). "Melungeons." Family Search. Retrieved from https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Melungeons
  • Girardot, C. (2011). The Turkish Apaches mysteries. www.mashallahnews.com. Retrieved from https://www.mashallahnews.com/the-turkish-apaches-mysteries-part-2/
  • Kaya, P. (1986). Search For a Probable Linguistic and Cultural Kinship Between the Turkish People of Asia and the Native Peoples of other Americas. Belleten. (198). Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Publishing. Retrieved from http://www.turkishculture.org/literature/language/turkish-language-americans-459.htm
  • Kaya, P. (2014). Turkish Language and the Native Americans. Retrieved from http://ireland.iol.ie/~afifi/Articles/turkic.htm
  • Kennedy, N. B., & Joseph M. S. (2003). From Anatolia to Appalachia: A Turkish-American Dialogue (Melungeon Series). America: Mercer University Press.
  • Pennington, L. B., & Thomas P. (Eds.). (2005). EYE on Publications. Newsletter Appalachian Center Berea College, 34(4), Fall.
  • Türkkan, R. O. (2008). Türkler ve Kızıldereliler. İstanbul: Pegasus.
  • Yong, E. (2013). America’s natives have European roots. Nature International Weekly Journal of Science. Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/news/americas-natives-have-euro-pean-roots-1.14213
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Primary Language English
Subjects World Languages, Literature and Culture (Other)
Journal Section Research Articles
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Gamze Ar 0000-0002-8918-2124

Early Pub Date December 22, 2023
Publication Date December 25, 2023
Submission Date September 21, 2023
Published in Issue Year 2023 Volume: 3 Issue: 2

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APA Ar, G. (2023). The Analysis of Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine in The Aspects of Turkish Cultural Similarities: Finding Turkish Motifs Inside Erdrich’s Love Medicine. International Journal of Language and Translation Studies, 3(2), 111-129.

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