A Migration and Acculturation Novel from the Dutch Immigrant Author Murat Işık: Verloren Grond (Lost Ground)
Since ancient times, hunger, drought, animosity or the search for better education caused people to leave their lands and go to other places or other countries. Inevitably, these types of moves bring the phenomenon of culture to the fore. This article discusses how the Zaza /Alevi born Dutch w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cyprus International University
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Folklor/Edebiyat |
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| Online Access: | https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/2119759614_10-%20Holandal%c4%b1%20yazar%20Kay%c4%b1p%20toprak.pdf |
| Summary: | Since ancient times, hunger, drought, animosity or the search for better education
caused people to leave their lands and go to other places or other countries.
Inevitably, these types of moves bring the phenomenon of culture to the fore. This
article discusses how the Zaza /Alevi born Dutch writer Murat Işık, who witnessed
emigration from Turkey to The Netherlands, deals with the factors of internal
migration in his novel Verloren Grond (Lost Ground), which bears traces of his
family’s biography. In the work, migration of the Uslu family brings to the agenda
feelings, hopes and disappointments of family members. The novel is examined
with the aid of both the push-pull model of migration and pushing and pulling
factors leading to migration. The most important pushing factor in the novel is
the father’s leg amputation. The ground inherited from his father is thought to be
the only pulling factor for the family because it will provide them with economic
salvation. The phenomenon of land is very important for human beings because
it represents ancestral heritage, belongingness, identity and freedom. The second
important pushing factor is an earthquake, which triggers the idea of going to
the big city as a pulling factor. After the migrations, the members of the family
experience various types of social and cultural adaptation problems. Thus, through
the novel we realize that the phenomena of migration are economically, socially
and culturally important for the Uslu family, and consequently have positive and
negative results for each individual. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-7491 1300-7491 |