- Uluslararası Kültürel ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi (UKSAD)
- Vol: 4 Issue: 1
- From Sports Cars to Jeeps: Car in Turkish Novels
From Sports Cars to Jeeps: Car in Turkish Novels
Authors : Gülce BAŞER
Pages : 192-201
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Publication Date : 2018-06-30
Article Type : Review
Abstract :This paper analyzes the cars mentioned in Turkish novels, as consumption patterns of their period. The shifts in their choices, as symbols of wealth, identity and social status, and the expectations they represent are compared and historicized in the light of the history of emergence of the automotive sector. Cars have always been a strong indicator of the economic status in Turkey, as it has been in the rest of the world. Furthermore, has been the fetish object, being a symbol of unstoppable power, and an instant of the ideology symbolizing the individuality. In this work, the debate is on the consumption psychology moving from existence to possession and further resemblance; and the main consideration is the choices of the cars and the trends in narrations in defining the economic statuses with the cars.Keywords : Cars, consumption pattern, Turkish novels, social history