Research Article

Fictionalizing Space and Geography in the Necati Cumalı’s Plays: Images of City and Small Town

Number: Necati Cumalı Özel Sayısı August 23, 2021
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Fictionalizing Space and Geography in the Necati Cumalı’s Plays: Images of City and Small Town

Abstract

This study, which focuses on Necati Cumalı's plays, deals with the fictionalization of space and geography in the author's works. Theoretical framework of the study includes the intellectual background and conceptual structure of the concept of space, and the course of space studies in literature. In addition, it discusses the aim, method and development of geocentric literature studies in general terms. The study determines and evaluates the views of the urban and the rural by questioning the choices of place and geography in the author's works. It has been noticed that the literary representations of the space and geography in the plays are mostly the bigger cities such as Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and the Anatolian provinces, especially the Aegean small towns. Accordingly, the study has been divided into sections based on the representation of the provinces around the image of the village and small town, and the city and everyday problems of the ordinary people in Cumalı’s plays. In addition, as the representations of towns and villages are shaped differently in drama and comedy genres, and the issues are approached in different tones or from different aspects, the sections are also subgrouped based on these genres. The study indicates that biographical elements are effective in the processes of choosing places and their representation in the works of the author. Aegean geography is often fictionalized as a literary space in the author's plays, intersecting with his own life geography.

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

Literary Studies , Literary Theory

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

August 23, 2021

Submission Date

June 15, 2021

Acceptance Date

July 26, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Number: Necati Cumalı Özel Sayısı

APA
Özkan, T. (2021). Necati Cumalı’nın Oyunlarında Mekân ve Coğrafyanın Kurgulanışı: Kent ve Kasaba İmgesi. ARTS: Artuklu Sanat Ve Beşeri Bilimler Dergisi, Necati Cumalı Özel Sayısı, 44-73. https://doi.org/10.46372/arts.952771

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