Orhan Kemal’in Murtaza İsimli Romanini Foucault’nun Özne ve İktidar Kavramlariyla Birlikte Okumak
Re-Read Murtaza which is Orhan Kemal’s Novel with Foucault’s Concepts which are Subject and Power

Summary/Abstract: Murtaza that is written by Orhan Kemal who is a story and novel writer is a very important novel in Turkish Literature. The novel has been examined by jurists, sociologists, economists as much as it has been studied by literary critics because Murtaza has a unique type in Turkish and world literature. Orhan Kemal created the Murtaza type as a result of the relations of power and subject in Turkey’s political life in the 1940s. The concepts which is power and subject intensively studied by Michel Foucault. Therefore, the novel re-read with Foucault’s concepts that is power and subject. As we know, Michel Foucault developed the concepts in the 1970s but these concepts are in fiction of the novel which is written by Orhan Kemal in 1952. Hence, It is found in this study that Orhan Kemal thought these concepts before Foucault. Additionally, in this study attempting to give an answer to why the Murtaza type is an original type in Turkish and world literature in this study.

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