Publikace na Filozofická fakulta |
2010
Abstrakt
The article analyzes the connection between language, knowledge and power in the writings of two prominent Turkish Kemalist writers, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu and Nurullah Atac. It analyzes the way the Kemalist ‘secular religion’ is embedded in literary texts and disseminated through a specific usage of style and figures of speech and how notions of the ‘other’ combined with linguistic engineering are employed as a tool of ideological and political dominance.
Moreover, the article also shows how this self-conscious rhetoric and appropriation of literary language simultaneously display deep discrepancies inscribed into the ‘grammar’ of the Kemalist modernization project.