Dark knowledge befits dark color: Turkish novelists interrogate the ideology of light

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dc.contributor.authorParla, Jale
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:51:07Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:51:07Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe Republican discourse of progress has established a strong link between Turkey's modernization and the absolute power of light. As the Turkish word aydin (enlightened) replaced the Ottoman munevver (intellectual), the obligation to be enlightened along the dictates of Kemalist precepts became a national imperative. This over-valuation of light in the Cultural and ideological spheres has provoked some Turkish novelists to interrogate the cliches of the symbolism of light versus dark, by obscuring their writing with the twilight colors of shadowy zones. Their texts challenge the reader to dig up what lies beyond the shadows and behind the mists with which these writers have chosen to darken their tales. As the intellectual tradition of modern Turkey has evaded doubt, uncertainty, and indeterminacy, the majority of Turkish novelists have opted for novels of clarity, sited on the axis of conviction and invested with moral certitude. The genealogy of the writers of the dark and dim zone of doubt, disillusionment, and frustration, however, has generated the more intriguing, if not more interesting, novels.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage42en_US
dc.identifier.issn1305-3299
dc.identifier.issue41en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-77956348376en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage9en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8394
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000271405700002en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherHomer Academic Publ Houseen_US
dc.relation.ispartofNew Perspectives on Turkeyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectModernizationen_US
dc.subjectİndeterminacyen_US
dc.subjectProgressen_US
dc.subjectLighten_US
dc.subjectKemalismen_US
dc.titleDark knowledge befits dark color: Turkish novelists interrogate the ideology of light
dc.typeArticle

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