The novel Veba Geceleri, published in 2021 by Orhan Pamuk, which is about the plague epidemic and the process of nation-stateization in an imaginary Ottoman island (Minger Island), has a fiction that can be evaluated with its allegorical quality. The fiction can be read as a representation of the construction of an independent nation-state, which gained visibility in third world countries as well as the social and political conditions in today’s Turkey, based on certain points of view. However, the real attention in the fiction is not the allegorical quality in question, but in connection with this -more precisely with the allegorical possibility for the nation-state building in Turkey- that marked the recent history of Turkey, and which has come into existence with very strong symbolic values from historical personalities in various forms of thought it is the inclusion of two major political figures, which are sometimes considered in the axis of dual-opposition, to the character staff both together and in the foreground. One of these figures is Abdülhamit, the other is Atatürk, who is represented by Kolağası Kamil in the fiction. Here in our study; we will question how both figures gain visibility in the fiction, how the “imaginary narrator” Mîna Mingerli included them in the fiction with their positive and negative aspects. Then we will go to the background of the novel and examine the ideological basis of the formation of the two figures in fiction and their relationship with the current political attitude of the author.
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Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Literary Studies, Literary Theory, Creative Arts and Writing |
Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | June 4, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 Volume: 1 Issue: 1 |