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Orhan Pamuk'un romanlarında erkeğin iktidarı
(2014) Sağlam, Müzeyyen
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.
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Sait Faik'in hikâye ve romanlarında homoerotizm, erkek imgesi ve kadın temsilleri
(2010) Güven, Oğuz
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the issues of sexuality and gender in the short stories and novels of Sait Faik. The first chapter is devoted to the text analysis of fifteen homoerotic short stories. Later in this chapter, the issue of pederasty is discussed and the writer’s homoerotic short stories are examined using a comparative approach drawing on the novels of French writers like Gide and Proust. The second chapter is devoted to the characters challenging the gender stereotypes. At the beginning of the third chapter, some of the writer’s short stories about men will be shortly discussed. Later, the descriptions of male body will be examined. Lastly, following the discussion of negative female represantations, the issues of heterosexual relationships and family will be examined. It is observed that masculinity constitutes the basic problematic in Sait Faik’s short stories and novels. The writer examines the stories of male characters, their friendships, partnerships, solidarities, competitions and romantic relationships. Homosocial places and activities excluding women, sensitivity about gender stereotypes and descriptions of healthy male body show that the experience of masculinity is at the center of Sait Faik’s works.
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Tanzimat romanlarında erkek narsisizmi
(2011) Yılmaztürk, Müge
In this thesis, Ahmet Mithat Efendi's Felâtun Bey and Râkım Efendi (1876), Namık Kemal's Awakening (1876) and Recaizâde Mahmut Ekrem's The Carriage Affair (1895) are analyzed in the context of narcissism, both by presenting readings of each novel in itself, and by elaborating comparative aspects between the subject-matter novels. Dominant male characters in the work of male authors of the Tanzimat period, and narrators that reflect male-dominance in their viewpoints seem to reveal narcissistic traits. Given this aspect, the subject-matter narcissism is taken to be rather gendered. These novels, acknowledged as the founding texts of the Tanzimat literature, embed narcissistic structures not only regarding their dominant male characters and narrators, but also with their fictional configurations and theses. After establising this claim, the question of why narcissism is an encompassing and distinctive paradigm that is come across in every aspect of Tanzimat novels is taken up. The narcissistic pattern in the novels, which were written when the (self)- westernization/modernization process took off, is claimed to be the reflection of the arrogant attitude serving as a defense mechanism against the negative self-image, which was created by the retrogressing Ottoman Empire. The grounding facts for this conclusion are that the narcissistic character, which reveals itself by attitudes relating to vanity and arrogance, is in fact due to a deep resentment, that the arrogant attitude is not the cause for narcissism but the effect of it, and that this attitude actually is employed as a means of self-defense against the feeling of unworthiness.