YAKUP KADRİ KARAOSMANOĞLU’NUN ANKARA ROMANI: POSTKOLONYAL BİR OKUMA
ANKARA BY YAKUP KADRİ KARAOSMANOĞLU: A POSTCOLONIAL READING

Summary/Abstract: Even though the process of colonialism ended de facto in countries and nations that experienced the colonial experience, its impacts are observed to persist. When the process is examined from the perspective of postcolonialism, an area problematising these impacts in the aftermath of colonialism, those postcolonial impacts incorporate a wide cultural area and identity problems ranging from changes in traditions and habits in daily life, moral codes, architectural patterns to symbols. While postcolonial impacts whose reflection can be observed at the level of individual and societal psychology call attention to social changes being the product of colonialism, they, on the other side, point to identity traumas that these changes cause. In this study, the novel Ankara, written in early Republic period by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, is analysed in terms of postcolonial theory. The novel dealing with societal changes springing from attempts of Westernisation carried out in early Republic period, especially at the levels of elites, offers a rich material fitting for a postcolonial analysis.

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