MEMORIAL CULTURE, COMMUNICATIVE MEMORY AND THE AREA OF I FATHER LEK:
OMER SEYFETTIN STORIES Cover Image

HATIRLAMA KÜLTÜRÜ, İLETİŞİMSEL BELLEK ve “BABA”NIN ALANI: ÖMER SEYFETTİN HİKÂYELERİ
MEMORIAL CULTURE, COMMUNICATIVE MEMORY AND THE AREA OF I FATHER LEK: OMER SEYFETTIN STORIES

Author(s): Dilek ÇETİNDAŞ
Subject(s): Cultural history, Turkish Literature, The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Ömer Seyfettin; memory; communicative memory; recollection culture;

Summary/Abstract: In the continuation of the collective trauma experienced during the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the period of wars, the culture of remembering as a necessity of national identity and nation-state building is a matter of effort and accumulation towards the past and folklore. While this recollection culture works in harmony with collective memory, communicative memory creates a dynamism of action with a perspective that takes the present and prioritizes memories. Ömer Seyfettin, one of the important names of Turkish literature, tried to awaken the sense of national consciousness in the stories he wrote. He used all functions of memory based on space, communication and recall for the awakening of the mogacy of the emotion of this emotion and for the unification of the people in the spirit of belonging. In this article, in the stories of the author, the culture of remembering, collective memory and communicative memory will be examined and the position of us and the other will be discussed in the texts dominated by a hard nationalism where father laws are effective.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 635-640
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Turkish