Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDIA, CULTURE AND LITERATURE, cilt.7, sa.1, ss.43-59, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
This paper attempts to analyze how Fakir Baykurt depicts his own ideas and
feelings through the peasants’ reactions in a village in Ankara, Turkey towards
the aids provided by the Marshall Plan and American culture in his novel
Amerikan Sargısı (1967). He draws the picture of Turkey in the 1960s which
faces the Democratic Party ruling Turkey and the acceptance of the Marshall
Plan, officially named the European Recovery Program within the scope of which
Turkey was provided with assistance. Baykurt focuses on nationalism from his
ideological perspective, and the importance of keeping national sources safe
because he is worried about Turkey to become Americanized. He emphasizes the
importance of maintaining Turkish national identity from the risk of dissolution
in the American culture. Baykurt considers the Marshall Aid as a threat to the
national values and independence of the country. The novel will be explored
under the light of some major ideas of developmentalism and dependency
theories and these concepts will be discussed. These theories, the Plan and the
Party era will be briefly introduced to have a background for the discussion the
novel.