CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Sunbuloglu, Nurseli Yesim |
|---|---|
| Title | 'CRISES' OF MALE CITIZEN IN AGANTA, BURINA, BURINATA (1945) |
| Summary | In my thesis, I explore how male identities are constructed and reproduced in the post-Kemalist period (1940-1950) through an analysis of a novel, Aganta, Burina, Burinata, written in 1945 by Halikarnas Balikcisi who is a member of a literary group called the Humanist Anatolianists. The importance of this group lies in their somewhat ‘original’ approach to the relationship between Turkish modernisation and Westernisation and the identity problem of the new Turkish Republic (1923) related to these processes. Humanist Anatolianists constructed a ‘unique Anatolian identity’ which enabled them to find the roots of Western civilisation in Anatolia and its ‘folk’. I argue that the approach of the Humanist Anatolianists to modernisation, in terms of the tension between ‘Western’ and ‘non-Western’ identities and also in terms of their views on some aspects of modernisation and the modern nation-state (such as modern discipline and bureaucracy), is highly ambiguous – reflected through (mainly) male bodies in the novel which imply the instability of patriarchal authority in the context of Turkish nation state. . |
| Supervisor | Loutfi, Anna; Howlett, Sophia |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/sunbuloglu_nurseli.pdf |
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