Narratives of Korea and Dersim in Erendiz Atasü's The Other Side of the Mountain

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Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2020-06-05 DOI:10.1353/pan.2020.0012

Ayşe Naz Bulamur

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Abstract:This article examines the collocation of the Dersim Rebellion (1937–1938) in Eastern Anatolia and Turkey's entry into the Korean War (1950–1953) in Erendiz Atasü's 1995 autobiographical novel Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain, 2000). Atasü writes in her "Letter to the Reader" that the protagonist Vicdan is based on her mother, who in 1935 climbed Mount Uludağ in Bursa with her brothers to celebrate Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's foundation of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923. Vicdan's unnamed daughter-narrator, however, idealizes neither her Kemalist mother, who supports the armed conflict in Dersim, nor her veteran uncles (Burhan, Reha, and Cumhur): Burhan's guilty conscience connects the causalities of the Korean War to his murder of the rebels in Dersim; Reha remembers the woman he raped in Dersim; the disabled Cumhur suppresses his anger at the government that forsakes lives in Korea for NATO membership. Atasü's circular narrative that travels backward and forward in time portrays history not as progressive but as repetitive due to Turkey's involvement in war. The Other Side of the Mountain narrates the silenced "other side" of the Republic by recalling Turkey's entry into the Korean War and the armed conflict in Eastern Anatolia.

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伊伦迪兹Atasü《山的另一边》中韩国与德西姆的叙事

摘要:本文考察了埃伦迪兹Atasü 1995年的自传体小说Dağın Öteki Yüzü(山的另一边，2000)中东安纳托利亚的德西姆叛乱(1937-1938)与土耳其加入朝鲜战争(1950-1953)的结合。Atasü在她的“给读者的信”中写道，主人公Vicdan的原型是她的母亲，她在1935年和她的兄弟们一起攀登了乌卢达乌山，以庆祝1923年穆斯塔法·凯末尔·atatrk建立现代土耳其共和国。然而，Vicdan的无名女儿叙述者既没有理想化她支持德西姆武装冲突的凯末尔主义母亲，也没有理想化她的老兵叔叔(布尔汉，Reha和Cumhur):布尔汉的罪责意识将朝鲜战争的伤亡与他在德西姆杀害叛军联系起来;雷哈还记得他在德西姆强奸的那个女人;残疾人Cumhur压抑着对政府的愤怒，因为政府为了加入北约而放弃了在韩国的生命。Atasü在时间上来回穿梭的循环叙述描绘的历史不是进步的，而是重复的，因为土耳其卷入了战争。《山的另一边》通过回顾土耳其参加朝鲜战争和安纳托利亚东部的武装冲突，叙述了共和国沉默的“另一边”。

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期刊介绍： Partial Answers is an international, peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that focuses on the study of literature and the history of ideas. This interdisciplinary component is responsible for combining analysis of literary works with discussions of historical and theoretical issues. The journal publishes articles on various national literatures including Anglophone, Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Russian, and, predominately, English literature. Partial Answers would appeal to literature scholars, teachers, and students in addition to scholars in philosophy, cultural studies, and intellectual history.