Hegemonic Masculinity in Yaşar Kemal’s Demirciler Çarşısı Cinayeti and Yusufçuk Yusuf Novels

Abstract

In recent years, with the widespread use of gender approaches in the literature of social sciences, the phenomenon of masculinity has become one of the central issues of the disciplines of sociology and cultural anthropology. In addition, in studies within the sociology of literature and literature, analyzes have gained momentum via conceptualizations such as patriarchy, gender inequality, masculine domination, and masculinity. Considering that novels, which can work on social reality around cultural, political and economic conditions, are a serious object of study for the sociology of literature, it can be understood why these conceptualizations come to the fore front. Eventually, literature does not correspond to an autonomous field outside of social history, and the reality of masculinity is not external to this history. Yaşar Kemal, one of the important representatives of modern Turkish literature, presents the social and cultural structure and relations of production of the period to the reader in his own unique style. The phenomenon of masculinity emerges as the junction point of socio-economic, cultural and political structure and human relations, which it analyzes especially through the Çukurova region. From this point of view, in this study, his novel Akçasazın Ağaları, in which consists of two volumes as Demirciler Çarşısı Cinayeti and Yusufçuk Yusuf, opens to a discussion within the framework of hegemonic masculinity. © 2021 Cyprus International University. All rights reserved.