Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey

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Şima İmşir

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Routledge
09 October 2024

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Regional studies; Humanities; Gender studies, gender groups; Personal & public health

Series: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities

Health, 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.

By: Şima İmşir
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781032009469
ISBN 10: 1032009462
Series: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 09 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Şima 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.