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Author Günay-Erkol, Çimen

Title Broken masculinities : solitude, alienation, and frustration in Turkish literature after 1970 / Çimen Günay-Erkol
Published Budapest : Central European University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Contents Cover ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Contens; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 / 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 İsa'nın Güncesi; Chapter 2 / On the Post-Dictatorial Stage: March 12 by Women Writers; Marxist, Feminist, Exiled: Female Masculinity in Sevgi Soysal's Şafak
Greywolves as Traumatized Heroes: Fear from the Feminine in Emine Işınsu's SancıFriend or Foe: Revolutionary Men as Husbands and Valentines in Pınar Kür's Yarın Yarın; Emasculated by Modernity: Clash of Rural and Urban Masculinities in Sevinç Çokum's Zor; Chapter 3 / Masculinity and Modernization: Does Love Emasculate?; Institutionalized Masculinities: Military and Marriage in Adalet Ağaoğlu's Bir Düğün Gecesi; Urban Guerilla in Love: Masculine Affirmation in Tarık Buğra's Gençliğim Eyvah; Conclusion; Chronology; Bibliography; Index; Back cover
Summary This book portrays the post-dictatorial novel of 1970s in all its complexity, and introduces the reader to the Turkish 1968, a period which challenges Turkey's now reinforced Islamic image by the quest for sexual liberation and critical student uprisings
Analysis 20th century, Gender studies, History, Literature, Masculinity, Modernization, Turkey, Women writers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Turkish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Masculinity in literature.
Men in literature.
Politics in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Turkey & Ottoman Empire.
Masculinity in literature
Men in literature
Politics in literature
Social conflict in literature
Turkish fiction
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9786155225376
6155225370