ERDAL ÖZ’ÜN YARALISIN ADLI ROMANINDA TOPLUMSAL BİR ‘YARA’: ŞİDDET
A SOCIAL ‘WOUND’ IN ERDAL ÖZ'S NOVEL "YOU ARE WOUNDED": VIOLENCE

Summary/Abstract: "You are wounded" is one of Erdal Öz's novels that tells about the period of March 12, 1971, which is an important turning point in Turkish political history. The novel shows the violence suffered by a person detained as a “Political Criminal”. The novel "You are wounded" describes the destruction of a person through objectification. Violence is a behavior that has its roots as old as humanity. The dose and forms of violence have increased in the century we have left behind. Although their forms are different, violence is observed in every community, starting with the smallest unit of society, the family. As the purpose of violence, which is based on the urge, has diversified, types of violence have emerged. Although there are also several types of violence in the novel "You are wounded", its basis is the destruction of life, the objectification of man. There are physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, and economic dimensions and types of violence. Basically, these species are also decoupled into different subspecies among themselves. Physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological types of violence occur in the novel "You are wounded". The dimensions of psychological violence are multi-layered, and sadism-oriented violence and bloodthirstiness stand out among these layers. In this paper, the definition of violence, which is associated with the history of mankind and continues to be applied in its different forms despite the development at the level of civilization, is made first. After the general definition, the types of violence were introduced with a theoretical framework. In the novel "You are wounded", depending on the partitioning of violence, analyzes were made about how seemingly strong but actually powerless people turn others into an object to exist.

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