1st Edition
Broken Masculinities Solitude, Alienation, and Frustration in Turkish Literature after 1970
By Cimen Günay-Erkol
Copyright 2016
262 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1 / Quixotic and Hurt: Victimized Men as a Stable Ground, Chapter 2 / On the Post-Dictatorial Stage: March 12 by Women Writers, Chapter 3 / Masculinity and Modernization: Does Love Emasculate?, Conclusion, Chronology, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Çimen Günay-Erkol is Associate Professor of Turkish Literature at Özyegin University, Istanbul.
