Gender of trauma in İstanbul İstanbul

Name: Gender of trauma in İstanbul İstanbul
Author: Günay-Erkol, Çimen

İsim	Gender of trauma in İstanbul İstanbul
Yazar	Günay-Erkol, Çimen
Basım Tarihi:	2020-09-01
Basım Yeri	- Taylor & Francis
Konu	Burhan Sönmez, Gender, Literature, Torture, Trauma, Turkey
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	1475-262X
Kayıt Numarası	3df4e203-6951-42c0-b499-30f242a19d3d
Lokasyon	Humanities and Social Sciences
Tarih	2020-09-01
Örnek Metin	Burhan Sönmez’s İstanbul İstanbul (2016) is a powerful addition to contemporary prison novels in Turkey. The novel revolves around prisoners who experience systematic torture and are unable to escape the grim destruction that surrounds them. The discussions in the novel around Islamic faith, free will, solitude and captivity produce self-reflexive stories of memory and forgetting, in which gender also comes to the fore as an important center of gravity. In this grand scheme of brutality and torture, the only female prisoner, Zinê Sevda, is limited to sign language, and she facilitates men’s transformative recognition of their trauma through her ghostly presence. In this article, I explore how Zinê Sevda’s silent witnessing transforms men into overseers of themselves and comment on the implications of her sign language. I argue Sönmez’s play with traumatic memory and its resilience is an excellent metaphor for the recurrence of military tutelage in Turkey.
DOI	10.1080/1475262X.2021.1890384
Cilt	23

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Gender of trauma in İstanbul İstanbul

Yazar Günay-Erkol, Çimen

Basım Tarihi 2020-09-01

Basım Yeri - Taylor & Francis

Konu Burhan Sönmez, Gender, Literature, Torture, Trauma, Turkey

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 1475-262X

Kayıt Numarası 3df4e203-6951-42c0-b499-30f242a19d3d

Lokasyon Humanities and Social Sciences

Tarih 2020-09-01

Örnek Metin Burhan Sönmez’s İstanbul İstanbul (2016) is a powerful addition to contemporary prison novels in Turkey. The novel revolves around prisoners who experience systematic torture and are unable to escape the grim destruction that surrounds them. The discussions in the novel around Islamic faith, free will, solitude and captivity produce self-reflexive stories of memory and forgetting, in which gender also comes to the fore as an important center of gravity. In this grand scheme of brutality and torture, the only female prisoner, Zinê Sevda, is limited to sign language, and she facilitates men’s transformative recognition of their trauma through her ghostly presence. In this article, I explore how Zinê Sevda’s silent witnessing transforms men into overseers of themselves and comment on the implications of her sign language. I argue Sönmez’s play with traumatic memory and its resilience is an excellent metaphor for the recurrence of military tutelage in Turkey.

DOI 10.1080/1475262X.2021.1890384

Cilt 23