Broken masculinities
Subtitle: solitude, alienation, and frustration in Turkish literature after 1970
By: Çimen Günay-Erkol
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9786155225253; 9789633861028
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; Turkish fiction; History and criticism; Politics in literature; Social conflict in literature; Men in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Quixotic and hurt: victimized men as a stable ground. Men under surveillance: coming of age in  Çetin Altan's Büyük gözaltı; title: Masculinity as a national preoccupation: torture and emasculization in Erdal  Öz's Yaralısın; title: Masculinity under escalating military bureaucracy: quixotic sacrifice in M.C. Anday's İsaʼnın güncesi; title: On the post-dictatorial stage: March 12 by women writers. Marxist, feminist, exiled: female masculinity in Sevgi Soysal's Safak; title: Greywolves as traumatized heros: fear from the feminine in Emine Işınsu's Sancı; title: Friend or foe: revolutionary men as husbands and valentines in Pinar Kür's Yarın yarın; title: Emasculated by modernity: clash of rural and urban masculinities in Sevinç  Çokum's Zor; title: Masculinity and modernization: does love emasculate? Institutionalized masculinities: military and marriage in Adalet Ağaoğlu's Bir Dügün Gecesi; title: Urban guerilla in love: masculine affirmation in Tarık Buğra's Gençligim eyvah; title: Conclusion.