ŞEHİRLERİN CİNSİYETİ ve AHMET HAMDİ TANPINAR’IN KADIN ŞEHİRLERİ

• Published in: Celal Bayar Üniversitesi sosyal bilimler dergisi Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 407 - 422
• Main Author: Çağin, Şerife
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Turkish
• Published: Celal Bayar University Social Sciences Institute 2019; Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
• Subjects: 19th Century; Gender Studies; Novel; Rural and urban sociology; Theory of Literature; Novelcity; genders of cities; female cities; female cities of Tanpınar; anima and city
• ISSN: 1304-4796; 2146-2844

Cities and city life became a topic in novels mostly with 19th century writers. 20th century modernist writers, such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, wrote novels which can be defined as novel-city or novel-town and made the city where events took place, the main component of the novel. So that the city became the protagonist of the novel. Urban novels brought along their own specific language. The most important features of this language are masculin and feminine expressions for cities. In Turkish literature, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar is one of the writers who referred genders to cities he put in the center of his works and linked them with the ideal anima. Anima, the ideal divine woman, is one of the archetypes he constantly preferred for describing art and nature. It feels such that Tanpınar’s cities with their holy places, fountains in their alleys, natural beauties and old artifacts, always trails the silhouette of a beautiful woman who looks at an old mirror.