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Author: Özoglu, M.
Title: No man's land: gender and sexuality in erotic narratives of the Late Ottoman Empire
No Man’s Land
Gender and Sexuality in Erotic Narratives of
the Late Ottoman Empire
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No Man’s Land: Gender and Sexuality in Erotic Narratives of the Late Ottoman Empire
ISBN: 978-90-9031386-3
Thesis cover design by Sezin Beldağ (sezin.beldag@gmail.com) © 2018 Müge Özoğlu, Leiden, the Netherlands
No Man’s Land
Gender and Sexuality in Erotic Narratives of
the Late Ottoman Empire
PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof. mr. C.J.J.M. Stolker,
volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties ter verdediging op woendsdag 5 december 2018
klokke 13:45 uur door Müge Özoğlu geboren te Istanbul, Turkey
Promotor
Prof. Dr. E.J. van Alphen Leiden University Co-promotor
Dr. P. de Bruijn Leiden University Promotiecommissie
Prof. Dr. M. Boletsi University of Amsterdam Dr. M.M. Leezenberg University of Amsterdam Dr. A.A. Seyed Gohrab Leiden University
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Revisiting Ottoman Turkish Fiction Through
Popular Erotic Narratives 14
Chapter Overview 26
Chapter One: ‘Masculine’ Modernisation of the
Ottoman Empire 31
Ottoman Reforms in Education 33
Ottoman Press 48
Istanbul at the Turn of the Century 56
Conclusion 63
Chapter Two: Castration Anxiety in Hegemonic
Ottoman Masculinity 67
Trimming Ottoman Masculinity: Ömer Seyfeddin’s
Kesik Bıyık 72
Liminal Masculinity in the Balkan Wars: Zifaf
Gecesi: Bir Harem Ağasının Muâşakası 87
Eunuchs in the Ottoman Empire 88
The Balkan Wars in Zifaf Gecesi: Bir Harem
Ağasının Muâşakası 91
An Allegorical Reading of the Eunuch in Zifaf Gecesi:
Bir Harem Ağasının Muâşakası 93
Chapter Three: Adolescence in/of the Ottoman
Empire 115
Contextualising Childhood and Adolescence in Late Ottoman Society 116
Whose and Which Bildungsroman? 123
Mirroring the Self: Halfway Through Becoming ‘Man Enough’ 132
Compensating the Lack: A Rivalry with the Mother 147
Conclusion 160
Chapter Four: Sexual Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire 163
(Hi)Story of Bir Zanbağın Hikayesi 171
Reading Bir Zanbağın Hikayesi from within Le Roman de Violette 174
Acknowledgements 247
