Between fact and fiction: narratives of house and homemaking in mid-century Turkish literature and architecture

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2023-12

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Özcan Geylani, Seçil

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Literature reflects on how space is experienced as time and memory and thus with a critical approach it serves complimentary to architectural reading. This study respectively, instrumentalizes literature as a potential source of reflection and representation of spatial and social knowledge and hence a narrative repository for architectural historiography. It takes the mid-twentieth century Turkish novel and home into its focus and makes a mutual reading of home as space, use and image in the literature of the period and in the corresponding architectural literature. It analyzes the parallels, contradictions and ambiguities in the architectural representations and literary narrations of “domesticity” in the period concerned, via such themes as “home, “homemaking”, “gender”, “domestic technology”, “material”, “migration” and “displacement”, and discusses how “home” was constructed and perceived. By framing the domestic space as lived and experienced, in reference to the social, political, economic, and cultural layers of the period, it thereby, reveals that the image of the home in the given period should not be treated as a singular entity, but as a multidimensional social phenomenon that embraced a variety of “localities” which influenced and changed the understanding of modernity in the in the context of domestic sphere.

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Domesticity, House, Apartment, Mid-century Turkish architecture, Mid-century Turkish literature

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/106420

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis