The Melodramatics of Turkish Modernity: Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut] and its Cinematic Afterlife

Proposing melodrama as an aesthetics of victimhood, my dissertation examines the intermedial itineraries of notable feminist Halide Edib’s Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut]. Originally serialized in 1923 and published as a novella in 1926 in Ottoman Turkish, Vurun Kahpeye was translated into modern da...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Germen, Baran
Other Authors: Gopal, Sangita
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2019
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/24237