NOSTALGIA-CULTURE RELATIONSHIP AND AN EVALUATION ON NOSTALGIC ELEMENTS IN 21ST CENTURY TURKISH FOLK POETRY Cover Image

NOSTALJİ-KÜLTÜR İLİŞKİSİ VE 21. YÜZYIL TÜRK HALK ŞİİRİNDE NOSTALJİK UNSURLAR ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME
NOSTALGIA-CULTURE RELATIONSHIP AND AN EVALUATION ON NOSTALGIC ELEMENTS IN 21ST CENTURY TURKISH FOLK POETRY

Author(s): Uğur Başaran
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Poetry, Turkish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Motif Halk Oyunları Eğitim ve Öğretim Vakfı
Keywords: Nostalgia; culture; 21st century; longing for the past; folk poetry;

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of nostalgia that emerges as a result of the feelings of longing fort he past on the individual has a very close relationship with culture. Both nostalgia and culture are largely composed of the traces left by some lived / experienced events on individuals and society. It is known that nostalgia is more individual, as for culture, there are phenomena that concern the general public but it should not be forgotten that some nostalgic elements evoke the same wolds of meanings for many people. This is especially true for people of the same generation. The intersection point of nostalgia and culture is in history. The history here covers a maximum of 100 years for nostalgia but hundreds or even thousands of years for culture. Therefore, the effect and association area of the concept of culture is much wider. Nostalgia can be considered as one of the rivers feeding the ocean of culture. Although there are exceptions, both culture and nostalgia contain positive references for the individual. In this study, after the relatibnship between culture and nostalgia is explained, it will be determined what today’s folk poets desire most in terms of longing fort he past with reference to 15 folk poems that written in the 21. century, nostalgic themed, belonging to today’s folk poets,. Through the identified elements, it will be understood why these elements are missed and how they are approached, as well as what their place and values are between nostalgia and culture. As a result the traces of nostalgia can be traced in today’s folk poetry through the present representatives of Turkish folk poetry which dates back to ancient times.

  • Issue Year: 14/2021
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 636-651
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Turkish