REFLECTIONS OF THE MARSHALL AID AND THE USA: FAKIR BAYKURT’S AMERIKAN SARGISI (AMERICAN BANDAGE)

Authors : Figun DİNÇER

Pages : 43-59

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Publication Date : 2021-06-01

Article Type : Conference Paper

Abstract :This paper is an attempt to analyze how American involvement in Turkey through the Marshall Plan is ironically and satirically explored through the feelings and ideas of the villagers in Fakir Baykurt’s novel Amerikan Sargısı insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(American Bandage);. The novel is set in an important era in Turkish history when the Democrat Party ruled the country and accepted the Marshall Plan, officially named the European Recovery Program within the scope of which Turkey was provided with assistance. Baykurt keeps reminding nationalism from his ideological perspective and the value of national sources including the culture and values. For this reason, he uses the local dialect to emphasize the importance of maintaining Turkish national identity from the risk of dissolution in the American culture. He sees the Marshall Aid as a threat to the national values and independence of the country. In this paper, the major ideas of developmentalism and dependency theories help explore the novel. In the paper, a brief theoretical look at the Marshall Plan and the Party era is presented with a discussion of the novel under the light of these two theories.
Keywords : Amerikan Sargısı, Fakir Baykurt, developmentalism, dependency, the Marshall Plan

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