{"product_id":"writing-in-red-nergis-ertrk-9780231214858","title":"Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe republic of Turkey and the Soviet Union both emerged from the wreckage of empires surrounding World War I, and pathways of literary exchange soon opened between the two revolutionary states. Even as the Turkish government pursued a friendly relationship with the USSR, it began to persecute communist writers. Whether going through official channels or fleeing repression, many Turkish writers traveled to the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s, publishing original work, editing prominent literary journals, and translating both Russian classics and Soviet literature into Turkish. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting in Red\u003c\/i\u003e traces the literary and exilic itineraries of Turkish communist and former communist writers, examining revolutionary aesthetics and politics across Turkey and the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s through the 1960s. Nergis Ertürk considers a wide range of texts--spanning genres such as erotic comedy, historical fiction and film, and socialist realist novels and theater--by writers including Nâzim Hikmet, Vâlâ Nureddin, Nizamettin Nazif, Suat Derviş, and Abidin Dino. She argues that these works belong simultaneously to modern Turkish literature, a transnational Soviet republic of letters, and the global literary archive of world revolution, alongside those of other writers who made the \"magic pilgrimage\" to Moscow. Exploring how Turkish communist writers on the run produced a remarkable transnational literature of dissent, \u003ci\u003eWriting in Red\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new account of global revolutionary literary culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nergis Ertürk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231214855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231214858\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Nergis Ertürk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45482850189567,"sku":"9780231214858","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b79af070-e941-4dc2-88e7-4d052ebfa421.jpg?v=1715999667","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-in-red-nergis-ertrk-9780231214858","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}