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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.