This book is constructed on a research that scrutinizes the junta period following 12 September coup d’état, within 1980-1983. It’s a comparative study of the intra-poetic issues, including the poems published and the debates among the poets, paralleled with the social trends of the period. The nature of the influence of the process following the 12 September coup d’etat on the poets and poetic productions, and the links of this influence to the trends that emerged in society are the main questions of this thesis. The debates in literary periodicals particularly the poets participated to and the thematic qualities of the poems published in the period reflect the poets’ eagerness to define an identity in a society that tend to become individualistic rapidly. This study, focuses on the poets’ thematic and addressing/discursive choices, the junta period is taken as a social transformation process, enforcing and accelerating individualization rather than a period of resistance to an authoritarian regime. The process inevitably included mentality transformation too. This study examines both the mainstream and streams of poetry of September 12 to analyze the entire atmosphere of the 1980s, which were shaped by the military takeover.

Künye

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

Introductıon

Social Sciences and Literature

Comments and Approaches to the Coup

Methodology

CHAPTER TWO

A CONCEPTUAL READING OF THE MARTIAL LAW AND EMERGENCY STATE

The Publication Sector and the Junta

Society within Transformation

CHAPTER THREE

POETIC TENDENCIES AND MAGAZINES, THE FRAMEWORK

A Short History of Turkish Poetry until the 1980s

Major Movements

Republican Ideology and Cultural Policies

Poets and the Republican Ideology

Major Poetic Tendencies in the 1980s

Placing the Major Poets of Previous Generations

An Introduction to the Literary Magazines of the Period

CHAPTER FOUR

POETRY AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE EARLY 1980s

Debates on Intellectuals and the Intelligentsia

Politics in Poetry and Can Yücel's Antagonism

Identification and Self Definition in Poetic Circles

Poetry of Rebuilding the Self and Broken Bonds: Akif Kurtuluş

History and Tradition as a Components of Identity

Reviewing Language

Historicism and Opposition in Murathan Mungan's Osmanlıya Dair Hikâyat

The Exposition of a Self Confident Rural Identity

The Exhibition of the Rural Identity in Adnan Özer's Poetry

Rise of an Islamist Poetry and another Debate on Tradition

Modern, Ethical and Mystical Content in Osman Konuk's poetry

CHAPTER FIVE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX