‘CULTURAL ANNIHILATION POLICY’ IN THE WORK OF ELÇİN EFENDİYEV ‘DEATH WARRANT’
ELÇİN EFENDİYEV’İN “ÖLÜM HÜKMÜ” ESERİNDE “KÜLTÜREL İMHA SİYASETİ”

Author : Serap SARIBAŞ
Number of pages : 259-273

Abstract

The novel ‘Death Warrant’ handles ‘Cultural Annihilation Policy’ around different individual crews and stories. In the work it was told the Soviet regime dominated in Azerbaijan between 1920-1991, degeneration of people with the repression of the regime and the destruction of a society by ripping it off from its self with the destruction of fundamental elements such as religion, language and culture constituting the national identity. Within the framework of ‘Cultural Annihilation Policy’ ‘Fox Came Cemetery’ although it is a sacred place, it was transformed into a center of moral decay with destruction projects. The director of this cemetery becomes the representative of moral commotion. Special permission is required to read the Quran. The life story of a dog that results in suicide which has a different symbolic function, was handled in the work. The plague epidemic started in Hadrut Town of Azerbaijan was tried to be prevented by the authorities by the isolation of the town. The fire that was inflamed to burn the relatives who were killed in the epidemic of the townspeople who isolated from the outside world symbolically represents the destruction of a nation. In the ‘Revelation of hatred’ meetings, everyone was declared as enemy of the people and they were shot or exiled

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National

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