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. Gunay-Erkol argues that the literature written after the 1970 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.
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Weight: 521g
Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
Publication Date: 20 Aug 2016
Publisher: Central European University Press
Publication City/Country: Hungary
Language: English
ISBN13: 9786155225253
About Cimen Günay-Erkol
Acknowledgements Prologue Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Quixotic and Hurt: Victimized Men as a Stable Ground 1 Men Under Surveillance: Coming of Age in Cetin Altan's Buyuk Gozalti 2 Masculinity as a National Preoccupation: Torture and Emasculization in Erdal Oz's Yaralisin 3 Masculinity Under Escalating Military Bureaucracy: Quixotic Sacrifice in M.C. Anday's Isa'nin Guncesi Chapter 2 On the Post-Dictatorial Stage: March 12 by Women Writers 4 Marxist Feminist Exiled: Female Masculinity in Sevgi Soysal's Safak 5 Greywolves as Traumatized Heros: Fear from the Feminine in Emine Isinsu's Sanci 6 Friend or Foe: Revolutionary Men as Husbands and Valentines in Pinar Kur's Yarin Yarin 7 Emasculated by Modernity: Clash of Rural and Urban Masculinities in Sevinc Cokum's Zor Chapter 3 Masculinity and Modernization: Does Love Emasculate? 1 Institutionalized Masculinities: Military and Marriage in Adalet Agaoglu's Bir Dugun Gecesi 2 Urban Guerilla in Love: Masculine Affirmation in Tarik Bugra's Gencligim Eyvah Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index