ŞEHİRLERİN CİNSİYETİ ve AHMET HAMDİ TANPINAR’IN KADIN ŞEHİRLERİ
GENDERS OF CITIES AND AHMET HAMDİ TANPINAR’S FEMALE CITIES

Summary/Abstract: 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.

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