Akademik Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi

Abstract

One of the most important writers of Turkish literature Latife Tekin’s novel called Berji Kristin, Tales From The Garbage Hills focuses on the construction and destruction processes of the people of Çiçektepe at the mentioned place “Çiçektepe”. The people of Çiçektepe wants to live their own tales but they come across with obstacles of the state powers and natural disasters; the houses which were built collapse at every turn. At the end of their struggle, it is permitted to live in their houses. In this quarter where the people interiorize a collective way of living, after overcoming all the problems, a factory is established and adopting a working order which all the people work together enable us to come to the forefront utopian thought. There is a close link between having the neighborhood resident always hope and the hope principle of utopian thought. On the other hand, both the demolish of the houses which people were built and power struggle of some people from the neighborhood resident are the reflections of dystopian thought. In this study, by being focused on the relations between “Berji Kristin, Tales From the Garbage Hills” and utopian and dystopian thought, the opposite case in one novel will be analysed within the scope of events, facts and concepts. It is evaluated through the turning points which utopia transforms to dystopia and dystopia transforms to utopia. To the extent that this dual perspective allows, the points where the narrative deviates will be determined and evaluated. In this context, the concept of "ustopia" introduced by Margaret Atwood will be mentioned and the view of the concept in practice will be exemplified. The concepts of utopia, dystopia and ustopia will be evaluated within the framework of the text and will be explained with quotations from the text.