Writing in Red - Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union

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.

List of contents

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 Derviş 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: Nâzım Hikmet’s Prose Poetics of Seriality and the Time of (Post)communism
Conclusion: In the Anteroom of History
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nergis Erturk, Nergis Ertürk
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2024
• EAN: 9780231214841
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21484-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Modernist Latitudes
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