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AbstractThis paper explores modes of autobiographical writing by female authors in the early republican period. Women's autobiographies draw a strict distinction between the narration of the private and the public self, as they promote the narration of the undomestic, professional self at the expense of the private. Ironically, even if the autobiographers in question were politically active in suffrage, women's autobiographies either do not represent the authors' involvement in such campaigns, or praise state feminism for granting emancipation. "Personal is political" only becomes a maxim for a later generation of women writers, with autobiographies and autobiographical novels of the post-1970 period underscoring the importance of exploring the subjectivity of the adult woman/narrator. More recent examples of auto/biographical writing blur the boundaries between private and public and narrate gendered accounts of republican history.

Die Autorinnen, 4 (Kultur-)Wissenschaftlerinnen, führten zwischen 2002 und 2008 Interviews mit türkischen Frauen unterschiedlichen Alters und unterschiedlicher sozialer Herkunft durch (die meisten in der Türkei, einige in Deutschland). Sie befragten die Frauen zu Sexualität, Familie, Ehe und Liebe und erhielten dabei zum Teil sehr offene Einblicke in den Alltag, die Gedanken und Gefühle. Immer wieder geht es um Jungfräulichkeit, Ehre, Tabus, Angst und Gewalt, aber auch Lust und sexuelle Selbstbestimmung. Aus den Gesprächen haben die Autorinnen Monologe erarbeitet, die sie in der Türkei als Bühnenlesungen präsentieren und damit tatsächlich an Tabus kratzen. (2)

AbstractThis article offers a critical reading of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) through an exploration and critique of the mythmaking and monumentalization surrounding the Gallipoli Battle and the multiple ways in which Ceylan's film unsettles the foundational myths of the last century in Turkey. Ceylan's scenes and characters are constructed in such a way that the male characters and particularly Sinan (the main character) refuse to succumb to hegemonic codes of masculinity. Through this cinematic refusal by an anti-hero (Sinan), the film addresses the crisis of hegemonic masculinities in their interconnectedness to militarism, nationalism, capitalism, and heteronormativity. Through Sinan's quest for self-realization, the film signals not only the impotence and vanity of nationalist masculinities but also the caesuras and instabilities in national myths. As the last film of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's new Land of Ghosts trilogy, which started with Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Winter Sleep, Ahlat Ağacı seems to close the cycle with a final scene that bespeaks the possibility of unearthing lost others of national mythmaking, bringing fertility and hope to the lands in which collective amnesia reigns supreme.

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