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OverviewHealth, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey offers readers fresh insight into Turkish modernity and its discourse on health, what it excludes and how these potentialities manifest themselves in women’s fiction to shape the imagination of the period. Starting from the nineteenth century, health gradually became a focal topic in relation to the future of the empire, and later the Republic. Examining representations of health and illness in nationalist romances, melodramas and modernist works, this book will explore diseases such as syphilis, tuberculosis and cancer, and their representation in the literary imagination as a tool to discuss anxieties over cultural transformation. This book places Turkish literature in the field of health humanities and identifies the discourse on health as a key component in the making of the Turkish nation-building ideology. By focusing on the place of health and illness in canonical and non-canonised fiction, it opens a new field in Turkish literary studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Şima İmşirPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge ISBN: 9781032009469ISBN 10: 1032009462 Pages: 202 Publication Date: 09 October 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Who is Inside? Who is Outside? Limits of the Healthy and Sturdy Nation Chapter Two: The Making of the Healthy Woman: Halide Edib and the Politics of Medicine Chapter Three: Almost a Man, But Not Quite: Medicine and Gender in Melodrama Chapter Four: Adhered to the Flesh: Lived Bodies in Modernist Literature after 1960 EpilogueReviewsAuthor InformationŞima İmşir is an assistant professor in Comparative Literature at Koç University. Her teaching and research ranges from medical and health humanities, illness and literature to comparative modernisms, gender and postcolonial studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |