Orhan Pamuk'un romanlarında erkeğin iktidarı
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Date
2014Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
Power of men in the novels of one of the most important representative of
postmodernist Turkish novels, Orhan Pamuk has never been entirely addressed in
any study before. However much the female characters and the way of depicting the
female characters in the novels of Orhan Pamuk have been the subject of two theses
and many articles, the masculine characters and the hegemony of these characters on
the women have always been ignored. Thus, the main objective of this thesis, “Power
of Men” is to fill this gap in literature studies. For the purpose of ensuring that this
study is more encompassing and that it reaches more objective results, all novels of
Orhan Pamuk (Mr. Cevdet and His Sons, the Silent House, the Black Book, New Life,
My Name is Red, Snow and the Museum of Innocence) have been included in this
study. Within the scope of the first chapter of the thesis “Theoretical Background”,
the gender theory has been described and the development of this theory in the world
and in Turkey has been addressed so as to ensure better understanding of discussions
on “masculinity” and “hegemonic masculinity”. The main focus of the second
chapter “Being a Man in the Novels of Orhan Pamuk”, is the male characters who
have been ignored in the literature studies. In this chapter, the impact of traditional
society and the family structure on the formation, development and transfer of the
masculine identity and power; the practices in public area and the role of interaction
between two genders in this process have been discussed. In addition, it has also
been touched upon the positioning of the female characters in the development
process of the masculine power in the novels and the roles of the female characters in
the novels observed with regard to the hegemonic masculinity relations. As a result
of all these observation it has been determined that Orhan Pamuk, despite
introducing a different perspective to the Turkish novels, still follows the traditional
way of writing about the development process of masculine identity and masculine
power.