IDENTITY OF BALKANITE IN TURKISH LITERATURE AND LEGITIMATION VALUES: ÖMER SEYFETTİN’S SHORT STORIES
Öz
Balkan
Wars had traumatic effects on the society during the period of dissolution of
the Ottoman Empire. Nationalism had been on the rise for a long time. It grew
into source of motivation for gaining independence among Balkanite states.
Before the inversion of independence desire into physical conflict, each of the
those states had tried to create a unique identity. Against this identity there
is “Ottoman” and “Turkish” as an “other”. Tensed approaches between those two
counterpowers had an extensive coverage in Ottoman and Turkish literature
especially under the nationalism discourses. Both of the opposite poles
questioned the legitimacy and justice of the “other”. One of the outstanding
efforts is the stories by Ömer Seyfettin about the period. Sometimes, author
holds up the efforts for independence by Balkanite states as an example to
Turkish society and other times tres to prove incorrectness of these movements
on the level of fiction. For this reason Balkanite identity in these stories
has bears of the characteristics of the “other”. While Ömer Seyfettin
legitimizes Turkish identity and Turkish nationalism he naturally delegitimizes
“other” and opposite nationalism movements. Analyzing the methods of
delegitimization is important in terms of revealing mind map of him and
nationalist thought. In this paper, by looking at this presupposition, counter
values in short stories will be studied. For this, one of the important
scholars of ideology theory, Teun van Dijk’s discourse modes will be used that
allows discourse analysis. According to this each ideology stresses weakness of
the “other” in order to strengthe its own values and statement. “Values”, “way
of living” and “opinions” of the counter one of the “other” delegitimized. In
that way good sides of “us” become more distinct. For this reason apart from
other discourse chances legitimization modes of nationalist stories are often
get attention in the short stories of Ömer Seyfettin. Evaluation of his general
identity discourse in this way will enable us to see the point of view and
conception between these two poles and also the map of the relations until
today on the literary field will be clarified.
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Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Sanat ve Edebiyat
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Ayşe Demir
0000-0002-3037-7373
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
18 Aralık 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
6 Kasım 2017
Kabul Tarihi
16 Kasım 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 18 Sayı: 18
