title: From the History of Turkish Popular Literature: The Novel of Peyami Safa “A Young Girl Among The Bektashi”
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metadata.value: Suleimanova, Aliya S.
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metadata.value: Kozintcev, Mark A.
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metadata.value: Obraztsov, Aleksey V.
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metadata.value: 2022-08-10T15:33:54Z
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metadata.value: 2022-08-10T15:33:54Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Suleimanova A. S., Kozintcev M. A., Obraztsov A. V. From the History of Turkish Popular Literature: The Novel of Peyami Safa “A Young Girl Among The Bektashi”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2022, vol. 14, issue 1, pp. 141–158.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.110
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37305
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metadata.value: This article centers around the figure of Peyami Safa, a classic of Turkish literary modernism,
  and particularly around his creative activities that have not yet received enough attention in
  Turkish studies in Russia, especially his contribution into Turkish mass (popular) literature.
  Under examination is the story “A Young Girl Among The Bektashi”, which combines erotic,
  detective, and gothic plot lines. The story was published in 1927 under the name Server Bedi, a
  widely known pseudonym of Peyami Safa. In this work he manifests as a writer extremely sensitive
  to the political situation, to government ideology, and to state policy. A decree aimed at
  secularization of the state was issued in Turkey in 1925, according to which dervishes’ tekkes
  were to be closed. Even though the struggle against “popular” forms of Islam started much
  earlier, in the late 19th century, when Sultan Mahmud II took steps to eradicate the Bektashi
  Order of dervishes, the Republican government was still in need of legitimizing its activities at
  all levels and in all forms of social influencing, including such media as literature and fiction.
  To further discredit the Alevi and Bektashi religious minorities, Peyami Safa builds his story
  around (and actively uses) various misconceptions about dervishes’ customs, rituals, and religious
  practices, misconceptions that were purported and widely circulated among the Sunni
  Turks. The novelty of the paper lies in the fact that it gives the fullest biography of the writer
  available in Russian, which, in turn, reveals major underlying reasons that determined the
  author’s choice of narrative strategies. Due to Peyami Safa’s personal features that were exacerbated
  by a serious disease he suffered, he failed to create a literary piece of mass literature of
  the same high quality which characterizes modernism writings created under his own name.
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metadata.value: This work was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in the framework of the project
  “Paradigmatic ‘delusions’ and their impact on culture and society”, no. 19-011-00371 A.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 14; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Bektashi
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Alevis
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metadata.value: erotic story
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: detective story
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: gothic literature
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: misconception
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metadata.value: narrative strategy
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metadata.value: From the History of Turkish Popular Literature: The Novel of Peyami Safa “A Young Girl Among The Bektashi”
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metadata.value: Article
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