Ertürk Writing in Red

Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56049-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: Modernist Latitudes

Nergis Ertürk traces the literary and exilic itineraries of Turkish communist and former communist writers, examining revolutionary aesthetics and politics across Turkey and the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s through the 1960s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ertürk, Nergis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Usage
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Revolutionary Entanglements Across Turkey and the Soviet Union: An Overview
Part I. Genres of Entangled Revolutions
1. The Turkish War of Independence in Literature and Film: Limits of Marxist-Leninist Nationalism and Legacies for the Postcolonial Era
2. Vâlâ Nureddin’s Comic Materialism and the Sexual Revolution
Part II. Marxian Form in the Periphery: Modernist Socialist Realisms
3. The Prostitute Cevriye as Positive Hero: Suat Dervis and the Ethics of the Socialist-Realist Novel
4. Abidin Dino’s Peasant Theater and the Soviet Faktura: Estranging Socialist Realism
5. In the Shadow of Lenin: Nâzim Hikmet’s Prose Poetics of Seriality and the Time of (Post)communism
Conclusion: In the Anteroom of History
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nergis Ertürk is associate professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (2011), which received the Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book, and the editor of the journal Comparative Literature Studies.