Broken Masculinities
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Broken Masculinities

Solitude, Alienation, and Frustration in Turkish Literature after 1970

  1. 260 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Broken Masculinities

Solitude, Alienation, and Frustration in Turkish Literature after 1970

About this book

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.B

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contens
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 / Quixotic and Hurt: Victimized Men as a Stable Ground
  9. Men Under Surveillance: Coming of Age in Çetin Altan’s Büyük Gözaltı
  10. Masculinity as a National Preoccupation: Torture and Emasculization in Erdal Öz’s Yaralısın
  11. Masculinity Under Escalating Military Bureaucracy: Quixotic Sacrifice in M. C. Anday’s İsa’nın Güncesi
  12. Chapter 2 / On the Post-Dictatorial Stage: March 12 by Women Writers
  13. Marxist, Feminist, Exiled: Female Masculinity in Sevgi Soysal’s Şafak
  14. Greywolves as Traumatized Heroes: Fear from the Feminine in Emine Işınsu’s Sancı
  15. Friend or Foe: Revolutionary Men as Husbands and Valentines in Pınar Kür’s Yarın Yarın
  16. Emasculated by Modernity: Clash of Rural and Urban Masculinities in Sevinç Çokum’s Zor
  17. Chapter 3 / Masculinity and Modernization: Does Love Emasculate?
  18. Institutionalized Masculinities: Military and Marriage in Adalet Ağaoğlu’s Bir Düğün Gecesi
  19. Urban Guerilla in Love: Masculine Affirmation in Tarık Buğra’s Gençliğim Eyvah
  20. Conclusion
  21. Chronology
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index
  24. Back cover