QUEER CHARACTERS AND GENDER PERFORMANCES IN SAIT FAIK'S WORKS
QUEER CHARACTERS AND GENDER PERFORMANCES IN SAIT FAIK'S WORKS

Author(s): Nazan Maksudyan
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), Turkish Literature
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Sait Faik Abasıyanık; queer characters; gender; Turkish literature;
Summary/Abstract: As Talat Sait Halman notes, Sait Faik (1906 - 1954) was the master of the short story in Turkish literature. He wrote almost two hundred stories, two novellas, a number of essays, and nearly forty poems. He is mostly known for his realistic short stories, dwelling upon fishermen, workers, children, beggars, wanderers in some neighborhoods in the city of Istanbul. He is also exceptional in giving voice to the non-Muslim communities in the city in the 1930s and 1940s. His literary genius rested on the fact that he “portrayed the predicaments, maladjustments, and disillusionments of the man in the street, frequently himself, living on the fringes of the society.”

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