Self and Desire in the Modern Turkish Novel : A Study on Non-Western Literary Modernities

ISBN-13: 9783659251306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 88 str.

Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca

Opis

This book aims to be a critical investigation of the modern Turkish novel focused on the textual analysis of four different works published between 1970 and 2002. Identifying subjectivity as the ground of meaning for the modern project and as the essence of the novel as a literary genre, it examines the ways in which the Turkish modern novel reconciles with and subverts the textual modern self. It focuses on desire as a thematic component of subjectivity and analyses the various structures desire follows and constructs different forms of interiority. Each of the four canonical works corresponds to a decade, in parallel to the traumatic experience of three coups.

O autorze

Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University. She holds a B.A. degree in English Literature from Bogazici U.; an M.A. degree in Cultural Studies from Sabanci U. and an M.A. degree in Comparative Literature from NYU. She conducted research at Philipps-Uni. Marburg and University of Paris 8.