Ermeni Harfli Türkçe Romanlarda Din Kurumu ve Çağdaşı Arap Harfli Romanlarla Karşılaştırılması
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2023
Yazarlar: Akdeniz, Safiye
Ermeni Araştırmaları, Uluslararası, 2023
Özet
This article studies some Turkish novels written in Armenian letters before the first Turkish novels in Arabic letters were published in order to examine the far-reaching social effects of Westernization/modernization. Close readings of Akabi Hikâyesi (1851), Karnig, Gülünya ve Dikran’nın Dehşetlu Vefatleri Hikâyesi (1862) and Bir Sefil Zevce (1868) demonstrate how Westernization/modernization affected the institution of religion and how this is reflected in literary texts. This study also examines how this issue was handled in the first novels written by Muslim Ottoman writers and the two sets of novels are compared in this respect. In both sets of novels, the change originated from the West. Modernism began earlier in Armenian society, which had strong ties to the Western world. In the Armenian community, where the sectarian divisions were much sharper, the change led to a conflict between the church and the proponents of modernization. Armenian writers dealt with this conflict in their texts. In the Muslim Ottoman society, these effects began a little later. The religious institution was affected by this, but this effect was often not mentioned or simply ignored in the texts. In the said texts, not much reference is made to the existence of this institution, and it is defended or reckoned with in a limited manner.