Author
Günay-Erkol, Çimen
Publication Date
2009
Publication Place
-
Taylor & Francis
Subject
Gender, Gender anxieties, Masculinity, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkey
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
1931-0676
Record ID
79314db6-ca24-4dd5-8794-a16db63f65af
Library Location
Humanities and Social Sciences
Date
2009
Notes
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Sample Text
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's (1901-62) novels reflect the dichotomy within early twentieth-century Turkey: a nation maintaining past tradition yet concurrently embracing modernity. Tanpınar explores the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity and questions acute social and cultural change. Scholarly interest in this aspect of Tanpınar's novels has greatly eclipsed all other aspects, as most critics analyze Tanpınar's intentions primarily in light of his political ideologies or philosophical attachments. This article challenges Tanpınar's readers to consider him in a new light through an analysis of A Mind at Peace (2008), a multidimensional narrative that addresses an orphan boy's rites of passage, which lead to manhood, within a broad and perplexing story of continuity and change in Turkey. To understand the novel as a whole, this article asserts, one must first comprehend the protagonist's precarious masculinity and his gender anxieties.
DOI
10.3200/SYMP.63.2.85-106
Cilt
63
