Browsing by Author "Ulusman, Bilge."

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    Functions of genre in Bay Muannit Sahtegi’nin notları: The diary genre as a means of masculine domination and masculinist discourse
    (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.) Ulusman, Bilge.; Akyıldız, Olcay.
    This thesis, centred upon the examination of the phallogocentric discourse in Vüs’at O. Bener’s novel, Bay Muannit Sahtegi’nin Notları (1991), shows how the dominant masculinist voice legitimizes itself through the generic functions of the diary genre. In this novel, the reproduced heteronormative reality of the first-person narrative brings about a categorical oppression of all female characters and makes masculine domination the only authority on female characters by intra-textual reality. All the dominating voices in the text (the protagonist, the narrator and the fictional rewriter of the diary) belong to the same person, Mr. Muannit Sahtegi. In this way, the narrator’s focalization restricts his addressees, categorically silencing all women, and declares his being as the only reproducer of reality. However, how and why does a masculine narrator make himself credible? According to Thomas O. Beebee, all genres provide a “use-value,” and all generic choices contain ideological functions. In this regard, this thesis shows how using the diary genre provides generic functions to legitimize the autodiagetic narrator’s masculinist voice in this novel. What does the form of diary, as a means of fiction, guarantee to the addressees, by using and transgressing Philippe Lejeune’s “autobiographical pact”? This thesis asserts that the novel of Bay Muannit Sahtegi’nin Notları uses the diary genre as a means of credibility for protagonist-narrator and fictional writer Mr. Sahtegi’s monopolized voice in order that it can make the addressee convinced to the masculinist discourse in this text. (See the Appendix for an extended abstract.)
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    Potentials of women’s writing : a gyno-critical reading In Turkish literature (1895-1950)
    (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Ulusman, Bilge.; Akyıldız, Olcay.
    This thesis makes a gyno-critical reading of women writers’ stories and novels -after the modern literary genres occured- from Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete in which the constitutive discourse of women’s writing has gained a sudden intensity in late Ottoman period up to the demands of parity (müsavat-ı tamme) in Second Constitutional Era and the pathriarcal tutelage in the early modern Turkish Republican period. For this reason, this study tries to determine the common themes, images and narrative strategies of the excluded women’s writing by male-dominated literary canon and the “antithetical mirror” of Ottoman intellectuals or state feminism. Thereby this thesis seeks for an alternative representation of women’s writing to established literary historiographies and periodisation; and tries to make women writers’ challenge strategies to patriarchal sexual politics and conversion of literary genres or narrative functions clear.