The aim of the present work is to link these two problematic phenonema -- the Balkan War in the cultural memory of Turkey, and utopian works in Turkish literature -- to one another. This theis aims to:
- bring to light the unknown literary corpus of Turkish-language utopian works; and
- use these texts to analyze the trauma narrative of the Balkan War from an Ottoman-Turkish perspective; and
- trace the effects of this narrative has had upon the creation of a new Turkish identity.
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