The Dramatization of Cultural Hybridity and the ``In-Between{''} Turkey in Fazil's Kunye

Abstract

In his article ``The Dramatization of Cultural Hybridity and the ``In-Between{''} Turkey in Fazil's Kunye{''} Onder Cakirtas addresses Turkey's historical context and exposes how political, social and cultural changes were expressed in Turkey's public sphere. Using Niyazi Berkes's theory of secularism as proceeding of modernism Cakirtas discusses different examples of stylistic strategies of cultural hybridity in the playwright's historical-based play, Kunye. He investigates how political changes in pre-Turkey times signify Turkey's national striving, and how the Ottoman-conservative past metamorphoses into Turkic-secular. The study juxtaposes the perceptions of `introduction to Westernization' and `departure from Islamic past' in a period of the national shaping of modern Turkey.