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A selection of novels.
Learning Objectives
To study the Muslim-Ottoman patriarchal structures and their transformations during the process of modernization and nation building during the XIXth and XXth centuries. Reading a number of selected novels the students will question the gender relations, the patriarchal structures both in domestic and in public space, and their change and continuity in the republican period.
Prerequisites
None.
Teaching Methods
A combination of lectures and seminars.
Further information
The course will take place in the first semester
Type of Assessment
At the end of the course there will be an oral exam.
Course program
1. The presentation of gender and of the patriarcal structures in Islam and in the Ottoman Empire.
2. Modernization of the Ottoman Empire during the XIXth Century.
3. First novels in Turkish: examples of new models of masculinity and of femininity.
4. Nationalism and nation-building.
5. The continuities and ruptures in the gender relations, family structures and social hierarchy in the republican period.
6. The reactions and resistance to the secularisation from above of society, culture, and gender relations.
7. The new Muslim hegemony and modernity; the repercussions on gender relations of the return of Islam in the public sphere.