Local Echoes of Western Modernism: A Comparative Study

Title: Local Echoes of Western Modernism: A Comparative Analysis
Speaker Murat Belge
Date: 29.04.2024

Although it was formed in the Western historical context and gained meaning there, modernism is one of the most difficult concepts to periodize, demarcate and define. In recent years, the monolithic understanding of modernism has been criticized and it has been accepted that modernism is not experienced in the same way in every geography and that it varies according to local conditions. Other countries that experience the modernization process differently from the West

Like other societies, Turkey's, and therefore Turkish literature's, relationship with modernism is becoming the subject of more scrutiny and research. In this talk, Murat Belge, with his knowledge of both Western and Turkish literature, will shed light on the experience of Western modernism in Turkey through a comparative method.