Broken masculinities : solitude, alienation, and frustration in Turkish literature after 1970 / Çimen Günay-Erkol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Günay-Erkol, Çimen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkish fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Turkish fiction.

Masculinity in literature.

Men in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest, [Hungary] ; New York, New York : Central European University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Broken Masculinities portrays the post-dictatorial novel of the 1970s in all its complexity, and introduces the reader to a 1968-era Turkey, a period which challenges Turkey’s now reinforced Islamic image by portraying the quest for sexual liberation and critical student uprisings. Günay-Erkol argues that the literature written after the 1971 coup in Turkey constitutes a coherent sub-genre and needs to be considered together. These novels share a common ground which is rich in images of men and women craving for power: general isolation, sexual-emotional frustration, and a traumatic sense of solitude and alienation. This book is an original and significant contribution to two major fields of study: (1) gender and sexuality with respect to formation of subjectivity through literature, and (2) modern literature and history through the study of Turkish literature. The chief concern in this book is not only literature’s response to a particular period in Turkey, but also the role of literature in bearing witness to trauma and drastic political acts of violence—and coming to terms with them.

Contents:

Introduction

Quixotic and hurt: victimized men as a stable ground. Men under surveillance: coming of age in Çetin Altan's Büyük gözaltı

Masculinity as a national preoccupation: torture and emasculization in Erdal Öz's Yaralısın

Masculinity under escalating military bureaucracy: quixotic sacrifice in M.C. Anday's İsaʾnın güncesi

On the post-dictatorial stage: March 12 by women writers. Marxist, feminist, exiled: female masculinity in Sevgi Soysal's Safak

Greywolves as traumatized heros: fear from the feminine in Emine Işınsu's Sancı

Friend or foe: revolutionary men as husbands and valentines in Pinar Kür's Yarın yarın

Emasculated by modernity: clash of rural and urban masculinities in Sevinç Çokum's Zor

Masculinity and modernization: does love emasculate? Institutionalized masculinities: military and marriage in Adalet Ağaoğlu's Bir Dügün Gecesi

Urban guerilla in love: masculine affirmation in Tarık Buğra's Gençligim eyvah

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-71864-7

615-5225-37-0

615-5225-25-7

9781003718642

OCLC:

961187643