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    Hegemonic Masculinity in Yasar Kemal's Demirciler carsisi Cinayeti and Yusufcuk Yusuf Novels
    (2021) Seker, Aziz; Ozcan, Emre
    In recent years, with the widespread use of gender approaches in the literature of social sciences, the phenomenon of masculinity has become one of the central issues of the disciplines of sociology and cultural anthropology. In addition, in studies within the sociology of literature and literature, analyzes have gained momentum via conceptualizations such as patriarchy, gender inequality, masculine domination, and masculinity. Considering that novels, which can work on social reality around cultural, political and economic conditions, are a serious object of study for the sociology of literature, it can be understood why these conceptualizations come to the fore front. Eventually, literature does not correspond to an autonomous field outside of social history, and the reality of masculinity is not external to this history. Yasar Kemal, one of the important representatives of modern Turkish literature, presents the social and cultural structure and relations of production of the period to the reader in his own unique style. The phenomenon of masculinity emerges as the junction point of socio-economic, cultural and political structure and human relations, which it analyzes especially through the cukurova region. From this point of view, in this study, his novel Akcasazin Agalari, in which consists of two volumes as Demirciler Carom Cinayeti and Yusufcuk Yusuf opens to a discussion within the framework of hegemonic masculinity.
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    Tracing Gender in the Rock of Tanios in the Context of Feminist Literary Criticism
    (2023) Seker, Aziz; Ozcan, Emre
    Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut and is considered one of today's most important writers for his essays dealing with the social issues of our time, particularly his novels based on his family biography. Maalouf discusses different periods within the framework of phenomena such as immigration, war, exile, love, and identity while constructing the sociocultural and historical realities of the Orient in his novels. Historical realities and individual tragedies emerged at the center of social changes in the bridge between East and West, and research on Maalouf's works converge with existentialism, with the protagonists of his novels being represented through social relations dominated by this philosophy. Gender analysis occupies an important place among these relations and appears alongside various other issues in many of his works, from On Identity to The Rock of Tanios and Samarcand. Maalouf received the Goncourt Prize for The Rock of Tanios, which can be considered one of the works that bears the traces of its genre. Throughout the novel, one easily notices the female characters' passive roles and the activeness of male characters in the production of power. In this sense, the work deserves to be analyzed in terms of gender in the context of feminist literary criticism. This article will deal with The Rock of Tanios in light of gender analyses and open up a discussion to question the fictional creation of female reality and the characterization of its existence in this work.