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NEOHELICON, vol.44, no.2, pp.601-617, 2017 (AHCI)
The aim of this study is to examine whether Buket Uzuner's novel, The Sound of Fishsteps, is an example of a critical utopia in Turkish Literature. In this context, the starting point of this article is Moylan's definition of critical utopia. In his Demand the Impossible, Moylan claims that critical utopias are born as a result of critical self-awareness about utopian and dystopian narratives. That's why critical utopias are placed in an ambiguous zone between utopia and dystopia. This uncertainty brings a radical and crucial attitude to critical utopias. My study argues that all of the generic characteristics of a critical utopia applies to Uzuner's The Sound of Fishsteps with its two utopian spaces. This article attempts to read the analytical attitude of the text in the context of contemporary political and philosophical discussions, such as the structure of modern power and the relationship between ideology and utopia.