Chapter Two. Vâlâ Nureddin’s Comic Materialism and the Sexual Revolution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. A NOTE ON TRANSLATION, TRANSLITERATION, AND USAGE ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. Introduction. Revolutionary Entanglements Across Turkey and the Soviet Union: An Overview 1
6. Part I. Genres of Entangled Revolutions
7. Chapter One. The Turkish War of Independence in Literature and Film: Limits of Marxist- Leninist Nationalism and Legacies for the Postcolonial Era 37
8. Chapter Two. Vâlâ Nureddin’s Comic Materialism and the Sexual Revolution 76
9. Part II. Marxian Form in the Periphery: Modernist Socialist Realisms
10. Chapter Three The Prostitute Cevriye as Positive Hero: Suat Dervis and the Ethics of the Socialist- Realist Novel 113
11. Chapter Four Abidin Dino’s Peasant Theater and the Soviet Faktura: Estranging Socialist Realism 153
12. Chapter Five In the Shadow of Lenin: Nâzım Hikmet’s Prose Poetics of Seriality and the Time of (Post)communism 192
13. Conclusion. In the Anteroom of History 219
14. NOTES 223
15. BIBLIOGRAPHY 293
16. INDEX 327