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Cross-dressing in Turkish Cinema - Politics, Gender and National Trauma (Hardcover)
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Cross-dressing in Turkish Cinema - Politics, Gender and National Trauma (Hardcover)
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As in western cinema, cross-dressing is a recurrent theme in
Turkish film. But what do these films, whose characters typically
cross-dress in order to escape enemies or other threats, tell us
about the modern history of the Turkish Republic? This book
examines cross-dressing in Turkish films in the context of
formative events in modern Turkish political history, arguing that
this trope coincides with and is illustrative of trauma induced by
Turkey's multiple coup d'etats, periods of authoritarianism,
enforced secularism and 'modernization'. Burcu Dabak Ozdemir
analyses five case study films wherein she reveals that
cross-dressing characters are able to escape persecutors and
surveillance - key instruments of oppression during Turkey's coups.
She shows how cross-dressing in the films examined become a
destabilising force, a form of implicit resistance against state
power, both political and in terms of binaries of gender and
identity, and a means to register moments of national trauma. The
book historicises the concept of cross-dressing in modern Turkey by
examining what the author argues is a formative trauma worked
through in the films examined: the westernization policies of the
Kemalist regime whose most immediate symbolic presence was worn -
the enforced adoption of western dress by citizens. Of interest to
scholars of gender, queer, film and trauma studies, the book will
also appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Turkish
culture and society.
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