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Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union

Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union

Ertürk, Nergis

Hardcover

Series: Modernist Latitudes

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0231214847
ISBN13: 9780231214841
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: May 21 2024
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.54
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The republic of Turkey and the Soviet Union both emerged from the wreckage of empires surrounding World War I, and pathways of literary exchange soon opened between the two revolutionary states. Even as the Turkish government pursued a friendly relationship with the USSR, it began to persecute communist writers. Whether going through official channels or fleeing repression, many Turkish writers traveled to the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s, publishing original work, editing prominent literary journals, and translating both Russian classics and Soviet literature into Turkish.

Writing in Red traces the literary and exilic itineraries of Turkish communist and former communist writers, examining revolutionary aesthetics and politics across Turkey and the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s through the 1960s. Nergis Ertürk considers a wide range of texts--spanning genres such as erotic comedy, historical fiction and film, and socialist realist novels and theater--by writers including Nâzim Hikmet, Vâlâ Nureddin, Nizamettin Nazif, Suat Derviş, and Abidin Dino. She argues that these works belong simultaneously to modern Turkish literature, a transnational Soviet republic of letters, and the global literary archive of world revolution, alongside those of other writers who made the magic pilgrimage to Moscow. Exploring how Turkish communist writers on the run produced a remarkable transnational literature of dissent, Writing in Red offers a new account of global revolutionary literary culture.

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