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Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey

Bodies of Exception

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Health, Literature and Gender 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 fiction to shape the imagination of the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781032009469
• ISBN-10: 1032009462
• Artikelnr.: 71714406

Autorenporträt

¿ima ¿m¿ir 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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
Epilogue