Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu'nun romanlarında cinsellik
Author(s)
Advisor
Oğuzertem, SühaDate
2002Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889-1974), best known by his novels
published in the Republican era, started his career as an author in different genres of
literature in the years following the Second Constitutional period. In the history of
Turkish literature, it is widely accepted that Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’s literary
works that belong to his early years are in accordance with the idea of “art for art’s
sake” and that those published in the Republican period reflect a socially-oriented
view of art. Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, whose first novel is published in 1921,
has turned out to be one of the most important figures of the Turkish intellectual
history of the Republican era not only with his literary personality but also with his
active participation in its politics. He is perceived as one of the initiators of the
“Canon of National Literature”, especially in relation to his novels. Therefore, his
works have become a subject of widespread research, constituting an area of its kind,
namely the “Yakup Kadri Readings”. In this work, an alternative reading practice is
developed in order to replace the current readings that focus on ideology, history, and
politics. The study investigates how Yakup Kadri dealt with the issue of “sexual
identity” in his novels, which has not been analyzed so far. Thus, an approach that is
based on close reading, character analysis and psychoanalytic theory is carried
throughout the study. In order to examine the problematic place of sexuality in the
works of Yakup Kadri, three novels of the author, namely Hüküm Gecesi (1927),
Yaban (1932) and Bir Sürgün (1937), are chosen for in depth analysis.