The Stage: a Space for Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey

dc.contributor.authorSelen, Eser
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-27T08:03:57Z
dc.date.available2019-06-27T08:03:57Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.departmentFakülteler, İletişim Fakültesi, Görsel İletişim Tasarımı Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on the role of the stage in complex modes of gender performativity in the work of three Turkish performers: Zeki Muren (1931-1996) Bulent Ersoy (b. 1952) and Seyfi Dursunoglu (b. 1932) a.k.a. Huysuz Virjin [Cranky Virgin]. These three I suggest are the pioneers of contemporary Turkish queer performance. Their performances - both on-and off-stage - are validated through a reiterative absence of queerness in their everyday lives and stand in the midst of various negotiations between queers and the secular Islamic nation-state in Turkey. In the works of Muren Ersoy and Huysuz the stage is suggestive of a space where queerness can be managed. It is a contested space that does at least allow for the communication of queer ideas to a wider audience. I discuss the works of these three performers as three variations of queerness in Turkey in relation to different eras and different political climates that are directly related to the nation-state's desire to perform modernity. While explicating complicated modes of gender performativity I consider the stage as the primary space for a queer body to exist. Through this discussion I aim to activate debates both within and against the context of secular Islam on gendered political space and on those overlooked sexualized spaces in which the nation-state produces powerful yet unstable values to manage queer subjectivity in contemporary Turkey.en_US]
dc.identifier.citation15
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0966369X.2012.674923en_US
dc.identifier.endpage749
dc.identifier.issn0966-369Xen_US
dc.identifier.issn0966-369X
dc.identifier.issue6
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84871239055en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage730en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/869
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2012.674923
dc.identifier.volume19en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000315222700003en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.institutionauthorSelen, Eseren_US
dc.institutionauthorSelen, Eser
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.journalGender, Place & Cultureen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectStageen_US
dc.subjectSpaceen_US
dc.subjectQueeren_US
dc.subjectGender performativityen_US
dc.subjectContemporary Turkeyen_US
dc.titleThe Stage: a Space for Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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