Yalçın Tosun’s Short Stories and Construction of LGBTI Identities

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https://doi.org/10.33831/jws.v19i2.278

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gender, identity construction, LGBTI identity, text analysis, Yalçın Tosun, contemporary Turkish literature

Abstract

In his short stories, Yalçın Tosun opened the given gender roles to discussion by dealing with gender in many ways. The author focuses on normative phenomena related to the gender roles, femininity and masculinity, the mechanisms of social oppression and stereotypical thoughts in traditional patriarchial society. The purpose of this study is to elaborate the ways in which the elements of LGBTI identity are handled and the ways of gender constructed in Yalçın Tosun's short stories. In this regard, four stories from the author's books (Kıpırtılı Bir Yorgan, Madam Marini’nin Tamamlanmış Bir Resmi, Kucak Delisi, Siyah Külot) are analyzed with a focus on the reflections on LGBTI genderidentities. As a result, it is revealed that in Yalçın Tosun's short stories, LGBTI sexual identities are handled outsideof discriminatory mechanisms and the concept of LGBTI identity is effectively represented, and that traditional roles of patriarchal femininity and masculinity are disrupted and reconstructed.

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2017-10-10

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Abdal, G. (2017). Yalçın Tosun’s Short Stories and Construction of LGBTI Identities. Kadın/Woman 2000, Journal for Women’s Studies, 19(2), 69–91. https://doi.org/10.33831/jws.v19i2.278

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Vol. 19 No. 2 (2018): Kadın/Woman 2000, Journal for Womens Studies

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