The Confusion Of Being Local By Globalising Or The Lightness Of Making Kemal Tahir Useless: On Kemal Tahir, History, Nativeness, Localness

The thing that has been negative in today’s social relations is not nativeness or localness but the absoluteness of certain characteristics and their reduction to the selling, consuming, periphery/storekeeper/ merchant identity. This is only an effort of description according to a preview when the orientalist travelers couldn’t defi ne the cities they went differently. In this aspect, the relation that Kemal Tahir created between history and nativeness is essential.