TRANSFORMATION OF CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN NECATI CUMALI'S LAST BEG ON THE BALKANS AND MACEDONIA 19002
Research Article
TRANSFORMATION OF CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN NECATI CUMALI'S LAST BEG ON THE BALKANS AND MACEDONIA 19002
ABSTRACT
Turkish literature during the Republican Period covers a long interval starting from 1923 until
today. After the declaration of the Republic, Turkey continued its development successfully in line
with the contemporary ethos. The same spirit found roots within the literature as well. Historical
conditions in novels and narratives of this period are not limited to creating a new existence
situation for a hero of a literary work only. In fact, they are perceived and analyzed as a state of
existence in history. For the first time in the era of Turkish Literature during the Republican Period
the heroism of the people who were mentioned, encountered or told to be mentioned as folk
literature and popular culture as the main source has been praised and portrayed as stories and
cultural values have been shown as a source. The new identity formation of this period actually
represents a return movement. The creation of literary works from the national values of literature,
together with the construction of identity obtains the transformation of more existing identities into
national identities without creating new and other identities. This is evident in the works of Necati
Cumali that reflect the basic characteristics of this particular period. Necati Cumali's family settled
in Turkey in 1923 with forced immigration under the Turkey-Greece Emigration. In this context,
he has developed in his mind the features and possibilities of the previous times, which have been
engraved into the author's memory, and the fiction of his works in the roots of the Balkans,
especially in the villages and mountains of Macedonia. In our work, we focused on the
transformation of culture and identity in two works of Cumali, which emerge in many different
moments, along with the memories of time travel and memories. People generate culture in a
specific time, place and under specific conditions according to their requirements. The development
of the concept of “other” was a natural result of the Turkish community’s quest for identity. Necati
Cumali like many other authors from the republican period with topics typical for him and his style
of writing occupied an important place. He displayed the transformation of his characters’ identities
in the novel from landlord to resistance fighter and at the same time wrapping his spouse and
childhood love in lover’s entity demonstrated their identity transformation. Cumali’s works carry
the traces of the society he lived in and was nourished by and that is why he aims to rebuild his
disappearing identity. In order to preserve and improve the existing, he took into consideration the
sensibility as well as the requirements of the period described in his works and in order to create a
national identity, his works reflected the building blocks of national culture.
KOCA, S.,
&
MURTEZAN-IBRAHIMI, S.,
(2020). TRANSFORMATION OF CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN NECATI CUMALI'S LAST BEG ON THE BALKANS AND MACEDONIA 19002. International Journal of Education and Philology, 1(1), 89-95. Arrival Date Posted By:https://ijep.ibupress.com/articles/transformation-of-culture-and-identity-in-necati-cumali-s-last-beg-on-the-balkans-and-macedonia-19002
