İki Göçmen Karakterin Kimlik Edinme Biçimi: Güney Dal’ın “Kılları Yolunmuş Maymun” Romanı
How Two Immigrant Characters Establish Identity: Güney Dal’s Novel “Kılları Yolunmuş Maymun”

Summary/Abstract: The Labor Force Agreement signed between Turkey and Germany has produced economic, social and political consequences, as well as some results that are closely related to the literature of both countries. Turkish workers, who left the homeland due to financial concerns and planned to return after a while, wrote down the painful and different experiences they had in Germany, becoming the voice of all workers and paving the way for the formation of a new literature related to Turkish and German literature. This literature, which mainly deals with topics such as loneliness, identity problem and alienation, is examined by dividing it into three generations. The main element that distinguishes first, second and third generation writers and their works from each other is that the language and subjects used in the works have changed due to the changing immigrant identity over time. In addition to examining this literature under three different generations, there is also the problem of naming it. While the name 'Guest Worker Literature' was first proposed, emphasizing the identity of the workers and their temporary residence, today richer conceptual suggestions are being made, concluding that this literature has an intercultural and transcultural status. In this study where the text-based analysis method was used, the issue of immigration will be discussed through Güney Dal's novel Kılları Yolunmuş Maymun, and an immigrant's search for reality in order to acquire a new identity will be shown through the heroes of the novel. In the novel, which is a postmodern work, the existential pain of both being a part of a society and creating one's own identity is discussed through two characters. It should be noted that these heroes are also author heroes. They try to overcome the difficulties of living in a foreign culture far from their own through the act of writing, which they see as a mental production tool. The aim of the study is to present Immigrant Literature, which has strong ties with Turkish and German literature, in a conceptual framework and to present the rich range of topics that Güney Dal points out through his postmodern novel in connection with immigration.

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