Modern Turkish Alevi Poetry: Symbol of Kemal Ataturk and Secularism

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" Modern Turkish Alevi Poetry: Symbol of Kemal Ataturk and Secularism "
Guerrero, Ezgi Benli Garcia Bovingdon, Gardner

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1051322
Doc. No	:	TL50439
Main Entry	:	Guerrero, Ezgi Benli Garcia
Title & Author	:	Modern Turkish Alevi Poetry: Symbol of Kemal Ataturk and Secularism\ Guerrero, Ezgi Benli GarciaBovingdon, Gardner
College	:	Indiana University
Date	:	2019
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2019
Note	:	76 p.
Abstract	:	This study situates the contribution of aşıks' performance of Alevi music in relation to Alevism and the Alevi identity. This study explores the poetic representation of secular values and Kemal Atatürk in the Alevi aşıklık tradition. It examines the Alevi aşıks' responses to political issues by focusing on the subjects and symbols that they use in their poems. The first chapter explores the Alevi interpretation of religion and politics by introducing Alevi beliefs and history. The second chapter explains the Alevi religious worship, Cem ritual, and the function of aşıklık tradition in Alevi communities. Considering the significance of aşıklık within the Alevi community, I inquire whether aşıklık and individual aşıks have any role in transmitting political ideas to the Alevi community. The aşık poems that I studied illustrates the long-existing suppression of Alevis, the nostalgic longing for the Atatürk and secularism. The analysis of the poems demonstrates the ever changing the dynamics of Alevi communities. In particular, the historical phases of Alevis demonstrates that Alevis are an interactive and self-aware group surviving in different political and social events by constructing Alevism according to particular movements and contexts.
Descriptor	:	Cultural anthropology
	:	History
	:	Sociology
Added Entry	:	Bovingdon, Gardner
Added Entry	:	Indiana University