Inside Turkish Literature: Concerns, References, and Themes

Abstract

This critical survey inquiry into contemporary Turkish literature is inclusive rather than exhaustive and focuses on a number of concerns, themes, and repeated references in Turkish social relations. After noting earlier developments in Turkish literature, this article then proceeds to examine these repeated references, themes, and concerns of modern Turkish authors, poets, and dramatists and their texts. Turks in other literature is another topic for consideration, followed by a final section that concludes with the referencing of modern Turkish poets.