BELGESEL YAZIN
DOCUMENTATIVE LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: Documentative literature, which is defined as nonfictional literary texts composed of research materials, is analyzed in this study.It can be said that the beginning of documentative literature which includes different types like novels, interviews,reports,plays,television films and dramas occured in the beginnig of 1920/30s. Linke Front der Künste’s Literatura Fakta Manifest emphasizes art should have a social utility and it should be included in every aspects of life and production as well as the obligation of using nonfictional forms by denying traditional art measures that were valid so far. In Germany the first steps of documentative literature were taken with Worker Correspondence Movement (Arbetierkorrespondenzbewegung) in 1924.Workers attended literary courses in the evenings and they started to join literary activities. In these activities, the commonly used forms were the interviews that attracted attention to the hard conditions with which working class had to struggle. It can be said that in the 1960s works categorized as documentative literature and examined current matters like 1966-67 economic crisis and Vietnamese War gained importance in Germany.Therefore, it’s possible to describe documentative literature peculiar to German literature. Some writers who produce works in this field suggest to broaden the term not to categorize it as fiction and to remove the obstacles like difficulties of understanding documentative literature and division problem between artistic and inartistic works.

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