BATAKLIK VE BOZKIR: KEMAL TAHİR’İN DEVLET ANA VE BOZKIRDAKİ ÇEKİRDEK ROMANLARINDA BİREY İNŞASI
SWAMP AND STEPPE: FORMATION OF INDIVIDUAL IN KEMAL TAHİR’S NOVELS MOTHER STATE AND THE SEED IN THE STEPPE

Summary/Abstract: Kemal Tahir's novels have been analyzed from various social science perspectives due to their focus on social issues. However, it is important to highlight how Kemal Tahir's approach to addressing social issues differs from that of social scientists. This study aims to demonstrate that Kemal Tahir's novels address the issue of the individual, specifically the social construction of the Turkish individual, as the foundation of the unity that characterizes his literary universe. Each novel deals with a different period and set of relations, but this common theme is present throughout. In this framework, the novels The Seed in the Steppe (Bozkırdaki Çekirdek) and Mother State (Devlet Ana), first published as books in 1967, examine how the physical and social environment shapes the Turkish individual and influences their responses and solutions to life and society. The subject matter progresses around the village institutes and the intellectual-people duality in The Seed in the Steppe, and the reconstruction of social organization in Anatolia during a period of dissolution in Mother State. These two works, which focus on different periods and issues, have an overlapping character that constitutes the basic triangulation point of the universe of Kemal Tahir's novels.

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