Browsing by Subject "Socialist Realism"

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Latife Tekin'in yapıtlarında büyülü gerçekçilik
(2003) Turgut, Canan Öktemgil
Latife Tekin (b. 1957) is an influential writer whose early works had a deep impact on Turkish literature during the 1980s. She focuses on the lives of the poor and of people who migrated from villages to huge urban agglomerations. Social strata that until now had mainly been narrated in realist and socialist realist works are in the centre of Tekin’s magical realist works. The aim of this thesis is to study Tekin’s use of magical realist narrative techniques by exploring magical realism in her works. Apart from a few studies, her works have not yet been submitted to detailed scrutiny. The publication of her first work Dear Shameless Death (1983) was followed by several debates. However critics mainly aimed at establishing whether the novel was “realist” or “socialist realist”. Others criticized her for supposedly imitating Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967). Similar discussions on realism followed the publication of Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills (1984), her second novel where she explores life in the villages and the suburbs, and again draws on Turkish oral traditions and Latin American magical realism. Tekin makes use of the content and the forms of the oral literary genres in her two novels, even though in the second one the focus is on the hybridization of the genres. In Icy Swords (1989) she approaches magical realism critically and reinterprets this literary approach in a original way. A study of those magical realist works based solely on realist or socialist realist criteria does not put enough focus on the formal originality and the content of Tekin’s novels. Moreover, the accusation of imitation obscures Tekin’s originality in appropriating Latin American magical realism. The thesis is focused on the three above-mentioned works. The conclusion of the study is that those aspects of the novels that were criticized by the apologists of realism and social realism actually reveal the author’s complete mastery of magical realist techniques. Tekin’s magical realism is far from being a mere imitation of Latin American models: it is an original reinterpretation based on native literary traditions. The synthesis of native and Latin American techniques is at the heart of Tekin’s original works. Hence we may speak of a native form of magical realism.
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Rapp'tan sosyalist gerçeklik'e; ne kadar evrensel ? ne kadar teorik ?
(1992) Kurtuluş, Akif
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"Septemvriiche" newspaper as a visual representation of the state-party-art-culture relations in Bulgaria 1946-1993
(2002) Pecheva, Tania Ivanova
This study lays in the general fields of “arts and politics” and “arts and state” relationships. These indisputably broad fields are restricted in this work by concentrating on a specific historical period (1946-1993), on a particular country (Bulgaria) and an actual event – the existence of “Septemvriiche” newspaper. In the first half of the work, the reader is introduced to the general historical and political circumstances and artistic events of the time. Consequently, the relations between the state and the party from one side and the sphere of art and culture from the other are shown by concentrating on the visual and textual appearance of “Septemvriiche” newspaper and the particular political and historical facts reflected on its pages.
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Toplumcu gerçekçi Türk edebiyatında Suat Derviş'in yeri
(2001) Günay, Çimen
Suat Derviş (1905-1972), one of the few women writers of the late Ottoman period, is a key figure in examining the conflictual phenomena of being a “woman” and a “Marxist” within the context of a predominantly traditional society. Having her first novel published at the age of sixteen, Derviş studied literature at the University of Berlin and worked as a reporter in Germany, until Hitler’s coming to power. Derviş’s life is dramatically affected by the rising of fascism in Europe and Turkey. Her becoming acquainted with Marxist ideas at the end of the 1930s, made Derviş write about the class conflicts both in her articles and novels. She published Yeni Edebiyat (1940-1941), a Marxist literary journal, with Reşat Fuat Baraner, the general secretary of Turkish Communist Party, who later became her fourth husband in 1941. This study focuses on the role of Suat Derviş in the “Socialist Realist” literature of Turkey. The tension Derviş experienced between feminism and Marxism is important for analyzing how feminism is received by the Turkish Left and also for appreciating the premises of feminism itself. The aim of this master thesis is to detect the epistemological and ideological breaking points in Derviş’s literary output and discuss the way she overcame the conflicts between socialist realism and Marxist aesthetics. In this study, three novels each representing a different period in Derviş’s novelistic career are taken into consideration and analyzed.