THE INFLUENCE OF ORAL CULTURE ON WRİTTEN CULTURE: CULTİVATE THE "EARTH"
SÖZLÜ KÜLTÜRÜN YAZILI KÜLTÜRE ETKİSİ: “TOPRAK”I EKMEK

Author : Aysun DURSUN
Number of pages : 311-323

Abstract

The culture, which is considered as the material and spiritual values created in the historical and social development process; as the whole of the tools which is used to create and transmit them to the next generations, and which shows the extent of the sovereignty of the human being on his natural and social environment; and as ‘hars’, crop and as the trace of human being in the nature, in more broader sense, plays an active role in transferring past experiences and knowledge to future generations. According to Walter J. Ong, oral culture is divided into two parts: primary oral culture and secondary oral culture. The primary oral culture period required people to transmit their knowledge and experiences through oral cultural products due to the fact that they did not have a technology like writing. In this period, society opted for keeping the products appealing to collective consciousness in mind and conveying to the society. When the written culture is adopted, while maintaining the viewpoint of societies, the inclusion of cultural codes that hold societies together in texts facilitated the adoption and acceptance of such texts. Buket Uzuner, one of the most prominent representatives of contemporary Turkish novelists, has included many elements of Turkish culture, especially archaic shaman tradition, in her novels, which were published with the names “The adventures of Defne Kaman the Incompatible – Water and Earth”, and in those which are planned to be received as a quartet with the names Air and Fire. In this study, the elements of oral culture within the second book of the quartet, namely Earth, which are fed from the tradition and set the ground for transmitting them to future, will be examined, and the functions of these elements in the novel will be determined within the context of the influence of oral culture on written culture.

Keywords

Buket Uzuner, Earth, oral culture, written culture, novel.

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