THE CONSEPT OF NATIONALITY AND BULGARIAN IN BULGARIAN TURK’S CHILDREN POEMS Cover Image

BULGARİSTAN TÜRKLERİ ÇOCUK ŞİİRİNDE MİLLİYET KAVRAMI ve BULGARLARIN ELE ALINIŞI
THE CONSEPT OF NATIONALITY AND BULGARIAN IN BULGARIAN TURK’S CHILDREN POEMS

Author(s): Atıf Akgün
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Poetry, Bulgarian Literature, Turkish Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Social development, Social Informatics, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Bulgarian Turks; Bulgarians; Children Poems;

Summary/Abstract: The poets of children poems in Bulgaria have used the concept of nationality in different ways as a result of the changes in the political life of the country they belong to. Also the place of other nations in the poems has showed differences according to the poet or the time. Sometimes, the concept of other nation has given as brother nation or it has given the source of assimilation and cruelty. These poems should be studied and examined in different ways to make avaIliable in academic world. In this study we have tried to study and examine the way of using the notions Turkish Identity and Other Nation in children poems where Turkish is seen as a minority language. By using the sample which has been created by the poems of different Turkish poets, the ways of using these notions have been identified with their reasons with their relations to the time they belong to. In conclusion part, we have focused on the properties of literary language which helps to shape the counciousness of national language, identity and culture and we have evaluated the counciousness of nationality and othering in Bulgarian Turks' children poems.

  • Issue Year: 4/2012
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 150-159
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Turkish
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