Post-imperial crises and liminal masculinity in Orhan Kemal’s My Father’s House–The Idle Years

Name: Post-imperial crises and liminal masculinity in Orhan Kemal’s My Father’s House–The Idle Years
Author: Günay-Erkol, Çimen

İsim	Post-imperial crises and liminal masculinity in Orhan Kemal’s My Father’s House–The Idle Years
Yazar	Günay-Erkol, Çimen
Basım Tarihi:	2012-09
Basım Yeri	- Wiley
Konu	Imperial trauma, Orhan Kemal, Masculinity, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	0047-2441
Kayıt Numarası	9f68d069-b2d7-493b-8272-c65252ca3b2a
Lokasyon	Humanities and Social Sciences
Tarih	2012-09
Notlar	Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the full text of this article is only available via subscription.
Örnek Metin	My Father’s House–The Idle Years is an autobiographical novel by Orhan Kemal, one of the giants of Turkish literature. The novel’s explicit focus is on a boy who grows up pursuing self-realization in a working-class atmosphere. The story takes place during a period of abrupt transformation when the Republic of Turkey, newly born out of the ashes of the collapsed Ottoman Empire, is adapting to oppressive conditions introduced by a burgeoning capitalism. Scholarship on Orhan Kemal has extensively uncovered and charted his socialist realism and unorthodox look at the history of Turkey, but it has not concerned itself enough with the issue of masculinity, which is an indisputable part of Kemal’s view of labour and political power. This paper is an initial attempt to approach Kemal’s autobiographical novels with theories of masculinity. I argue that My Father’s House–The Idle Years explores rites of passages into manhood in what can be referred to as a crisis of imperial loss: the boy grows in an attempt to restore his father’s victimized manhood, in a symbolic parallel to the transformation of the disintegrated Ottoman Empire into self-governed nation-states. Kemal handles the loss metaphorically, using the instability generated by the gender anxieties of a young boy who fails to be like his father to represent the instability generated by the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. I examine My Father’s House–The Idle Years as the Oedipalized story of post-Ottoman Turkey.
DOI	10.1177/0047244112449965
Cilt	42

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Post-imperial crises and liminal masculinity in Orhan Kemal’s My Father’s House–The Idle Years

Yazar Günay-Erkol, Çimen

Basım Tarihi 2012-09

Basım Yeri - Wiley

Konu Imperial trauma, Orhan Kemal, Masculinity, Ottoman Empire, Turkey

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 0047-2441

Kayıt Numarası 9f68d069-b2d7-493b-8272-c65252ca3b2a

Lokasyon Humanities and Social Sciences

Tarih 2012-09

Notlar Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the full text of this article is only available via subscription.

Örnek Metin My Father’s House–The Idle Years is an autobiographical novel by Orhan Kemal, one of the giants of Turkish literature. The novel’s explicit focus is on a boy who grows up pursuing self-realization in a working-class atmosphere. The story takes place during a period of abrupt transformation when the Republic of Turkey, newly born out of the ashes of the collapsed Ottoman Empire, is adapting to oppressive conditions introduced by a burgeoning capitalism. Scholarship on Orhan Kemal has extensively uncovered and charted his socialist realism and unorthodox look at the history of Turkey, but it has not concerned itself enough with the issue of masculinity, which is an indisputable part of Kemal’s view of labour and political power. This paper is an initial attempt to approach Kemal’s autobiographical novels with theories of masculinity. I argue that My Father’s House–The Idle Years explores rites of passages into manhood in what can be referred to as a crisis of imperial loss: the boy grows in an attempt to restore his father’s victimized manhood, in a symbolic parallel to the transformation of the disintegrated Ottoman Empire into self-governed nation-states. Kemal handles the loss metaphorically, using the instability generated by the gender anxieties of a young boy who fails to be like his father to represent the instability generated by the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. I examine My Father’s House–The Idle Years as the Oedipalized story of post-Ottoman Turkey.

DOI 10.1177/0047244112449965

Cilt 42