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Writing in Red
Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union
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Nergis Ertürk
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English
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2024
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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.
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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.
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Steven Lee, author of The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution:
Highlighting a long-occluded literary archive, Ertürk brilliantly uses the entangled Anatolian and Bolshevik revolutions to unravel persistent binaries such as modernism-realism and nationalism-internationalism. The result is a montage of aesthetic and political projects that together decenter the Soviet republic of letters while smuggling radical futures past into our counterrevolutionary present.
Highlighting a long-occluded literary archive, Ertürk brilliantly uses the entangled Anatolian and Bolshevik revolutions to unravel persistent binaries such as modernism-realism and nationalism-internationalism. The result is a montage of aesthetic and political projects that together decenter the Soviet republic of letters while smuggling radical futures past into our counterrevolutionary present.
Adeeb Khalid, author of Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR:
In this marvelously researched book, Nergis Ertürk draws on the entangled histories of the Russian and Turkish revolutions to make us rethink the boundaries of the literary space created by the calamitous aftermath of the Great War. A remarkable achievement.
Evgeny Dobrenko, author of Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics:
Writing in Red offers a fascinating and vibrant history of global revolutionary literary culture and modernist aesthetics. Beautifully written, this ambitious and original book is based on impressive research and careful excavation of major Turkish leftist writers and their relationship with Soviet Russia.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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A NOTE ON TRANSLATION, TRANSLITERATION, AND USAGE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Introduction. Revolutionary Entanglements Across Turkey and the Soviet Union: An Overview
1 - Part I. Genres of Entangled Revolutions
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Chapter One. The Turkish War of Independence in Literature and Film: Limits of Marxist- Leninist Nationalism and Legacies for the Postcolonial Era
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Chapter Two. Vâlâ Nureddin’s Comic Materialism and the Sexual Revolution
76 - Part II. Marxian Form in the Periphery: Modernist Socialist Realisms
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Chapter Three The Prostitute Cevriye as Positive Hero: Suat Dervis and the Ethics of the Socialist- Realist Novel
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Chapter Four Abidin Dino’s Peasant Theater and the Soviet Faktura: Estranging Socialist Realism
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Chapter Five In the Shadow of Lenin: Nâzım Hikmet’s Prose Poetics of Seriality and the Time of (Post)communism
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Conclusion. In the Anteroom of History
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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May 21, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9780231560498
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