A review on the Gürsel Korat's novels in terms of new historicism

We tried to evaluate Gürsel Korat's, who has gained an important place especially in Turkish literature recently, Çiftaslan series consisting of Zaman Yeli, Güvercine Ağıt and Kalenderiye novels and four other novels in terms of postmodern history-new historicalism. The aim of this thesis is to determine the processing of the concept of postmodern history, which has recently entered our literature, which is preferned by the writers of today, in the novels of Gürsel Korat. For this reason, the historical ground used by Gürsel Korat in his novels was evaluated and his use of time, place, people and images were interpreted. In this study, the novels of Gürsel Korat, who dealt with historical issues in the Turkish novel after 1980, were examined with a New historicist perspective. The reflections of the New Historicist understanding related to the postmodern theory of history on Gürsel Korat's novels were evaluated. In terms of understanding the power of the new in time flowing into the future created from the position of history in postmodernism the place of Gürsel Korat and his novels in the postmodern history-new historicalism current was tried to be determined. Key Words: Postmodernism, Postmodern History, New Historicism, Gürsel Korat, Novel