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Item Open Access Cemil Kavukçu öykücülüğünde kent, taşra ve modernlik(2001) Demir, HivrenOne of the changes that occurred during the transition from orality to literacy was the rise of new styles of expression in literature. As a new genre the short story conributed to literacy as well. The role of modernization in the rise of the short story is significant proof of the relationship between social structure and literature. Hence, the first works in the field of the short story in Turkish literature were produced in the Tanzimat period in which the society began to go through a modernization process. From that time onward, many stories have been published, but in the 1990s the short story as a genre was paid much more attention than before especially because of the publication of many journals devoted to the genre alone. Cemil Kavukçu, whose works have been published since the 1980s, occupied an important place in the world of literature in the second half of the 1990s. Kavukçu has published collections of stories entitled Bilinen Bir Sokakta Kaybolmak (1997), Dört Duvar Beş Pencere (1999), Gemiler de Ağlarmış (2001), Pazar Güneşi (1983), Temmuz Suçlu (1990), Uzak Noktalara Doğru (1995) and Yalnız Uyuyanlar İçin (1996) as well as a novel, Dönüş (1998). The attitude of individuals living in cities and in provinces vis-à-vis the modern society is at the center of Kavukçu’s stories. As a writer of a society which is struggling to modernize, Kavukçu shows that modernity cannot be experienced in the same way everywhere. The sociological and psychological world of Kavukçu’s stories finds its corollary in his literary style. The role of intertextuality and fantastic elements in his stories and Kavukçu’s use of language are the basic signs of the consistency between his story-telling and his story world. Kavukçu’s short stories are open to new techniques on the one hand and follow the tradition on the other; his story-telling techniques suggest an important idea for literary criticism: A literary work should not be critically evaluated without considering the conditions under which that work emerges. Consequently, the criteria of success in the genre of the short story in Turkish literature should be based not only on the standards of Western literatures but also on the conditions and the tradition of short story writing in Turkish.Item Open Access Murathan Mungan'ın çağdaş masallarında cinsiyetçi geleneğin eleştirisi(2001) Dündar, Leyla BurcuThe Critique of Gender in Murathan Mungan’s Modern Tales Murathan Mungan (b. 1955), a prominent Turkish author of the late twentieth century, analyzes and interprets legends, myths, folk tales, and cultural archetypes of the East in his literary works. The links that Mungan establishes with traditional narratives intend to assess the cultural wealth of the land in which he lives. This specific orientation, which is one of the keystones of his understanding of art, helps us re-evaluate those patterns which have existed for ages in traditional works of culture. By examining cultural patterns evolving in time, Mungan succeeds in shedding light upon current social dynamics. In Mungan’s works, a gender-sensitive role-analysis come to prominence with respect to both the reader and the text. One of Mungan’s most noticeable themes is the question of “masculinity”. This recurrent theme offers Mungan various opportunities to question the role of society in imposing stereotypical gender roles on individuals. Patriarchal gender roles constrain the flourishing of individuals, inhibiting their creativity and freedom. Mungan’s works inhere powerful critiques of the patriarchal ideology of gender and its overt or covert influence over all aspects of life, ranging from politics to literature. Another significant theme in Mungan’s works is “loss of speech” or “diglossia”. It indicates a social handicap as well as an individual one, and provides us with multi-layered reading opportunities concerning individuals’ specific relationship with the language they use. Therefore, Mungan’s literary activity could be interpreted as giving a voice not only to one’s personal history but also to that of the east of Anatolia.Item Open Access Sait Faik'in hikâye ve romanlarında homoerotizm, erkek imgesi ve kadın temsilleri(2010) Güven, OğuzThe 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.