Orhan Kemal’in Romanlarında Göç Merkezi Olarak Kentler ve Kültürel Araf

Abstract

In his novels, Orhan Kemal addresses problems and survival struggles of workers, peasants, the unemployed, and oppressed classes in terms of economic and human relations. In his novels in which he focuses on the problems of the working class, the author fictionalizes the concept of rural depopulation in the context of economic problems and labor exploitation as well as cultural limbo. In his novels, Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde and Gurbet Kuşları, limbo as a sociocultural concept is reflected through psychological and sociological concepts/ traumas created by rural depopulation. The fact that peasants migrating to big cities suffer from discriminating practices, the fact that they are discriminated against "other people" and "uncivilized people," and that they are influenced by the urbanite constitute the sociological aspect of migration-based cultural limbo in Orhan Kemal's novels. In addition, the struggles of peasants who have become alienated from their own culture and compromise/have to compromise their habits and values in forming households in the city, adopting urban practices and being approved by the urbanite constitutes more of the psychological aspects of migration. In this article, the sociocultural effects of migration in Orhan Kemal's novels Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde and Gurbet Kuşları are examined through a sociological lens.