Constructing the Self in Intellectuals’ Biographies: Struggle and Reckoning in Pursuit of Memory
Abstract
The author of any autobiography or memoir writes not only herself, but the conjuncture, social, political and cultural climate of her time. Biographies or memoirs also serve to fill in the points left by the historical and official sources. At the same time, the author also builds her ‘self’ in and through the narrative. In countries with less developed archival culture, the memoirs fill an important gap. It is possible to trace the political breaks, the signs of social and cultural transformations through memoirs and autobiographies. Current study is a press history based on autobiographies and memoirs of Turkish intellectuals. The study also attempts to analyze the relationship between modernization and the intellectual. For this, the memories or biographies of journalists or column writers who wrote between 1930-1990 were analyzed, and how these social, political and cultural divisions emerged through personal self-constructions. For this research, Zekeriya Sertel, Sabiha Sertel, Nadir Nadi and Hasan Cemal’s memoirs were analyzed. This study tries to understand how the Turkish intellectual constructed its self and identity in and through memoirs, within the context of struggle, reckoning, and conflict.
Keywords
Kaynakça
- Wright Mills, İktidar Seçkinleri, çev. Ünsal Oskay (Ankara: Bilgi, 1974).
- Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction, A Social Critique of The Judgement of Taste (London: Routledge, 1994). Pierre Bourdieu, Pratik Nedenler, çev. Hülya Tufan (İstanbul: Kesit, 1995).
- Nazan Aksoy, Kurgulanmış Benlikler: Otobiyografi, Kadın, Cumhuriyet, İkinci Baskı (İstanbul: İletişim, 2014).
Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
3 Aralık 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
7 Temmuz 2018
Kabul Tarihi
12 Ekim 2018
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 1970 Cilt: 5 Sayı: 2
Cited By
Otobiyografik Gazetecilik Anlatıları Bize Ne Söylüyor?
Galatasaray Üniversitesi İleti-ş-im Dergisi
https://doi.org/10.16878/gsuilet.1180843