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Books by Hülya Adak

Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915, 2023

The study of genocide has been appropriate in emphasizing the centrality of the Holocaust; yet, o... more The study of genocide has been appropriate in emphasizing the centrality of the Holocaust; yet, other preceding episodes of mass violence are of great significance. Taking a transnational and transhistorical approach, this volume redresses and replaces the silencing of the Armenian Genocide.

Scholarship relating to the history of denial, comparative approaches in the deportations and killings of Greeks and Armenians during the First World War, and women’s histories during the genocide and post-genocide proliferated during the centennial of the Armenian Genocide in 2015. Collectively, however, these studies have not been enough to offer a comprehensive account of the historical record, documentation, and interpretation of events during 1915-1916. This study seeks to bridge the gap, by unsettling nationalist narratives and addressing areas such as aesthetics, gender, and sexuality. By bringing forward various dimensions of the human experience, including the political, socioeconomic, cultural, social, gendered, and legal contexts within which such silencing occurred, the essays address the methodological silences and processes of selectivity and exclusion in scholarship on the Armenian Genocide.

The interdisciplinary approach makes Critical Approaches to Genocide a useful resource for all students and scholars interested in the Armenian Genocide and memory studies.

Comparative Drama, 2018

This essay is the introduction to the "Performing Turkishness" special issue of Comparative Drama... more This essay is the introduction to the "Performing Turkishness" special issue of Comparative Drama, edited by Hülya Adak and Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay. The purpose of the special issue is to address the gap in the scholarship on theatre and politics in Turkey and its diasporas. Organized thematically and chronologically, the essays cover the period from the rise of European theatre and the transformation of Ottoman performance genres in the nineteenth century to the work of minoritarian theatres and independent companies in contemporary Turkey. While each essay focuses on a specific production, dramatic text, or performance genre, the authors situate their analyses within a broader historical and artistic framework. With this introduction, the authors aim to complement their work by presenting an historical overview of theatre in Turkey and its diasporas as well as a brief discussion of contemporary trends and recent productions.

... ID Code: 13996. Deposited By: Hülya Adak. Deposited On: 07 Jun 2010 11:30. Last Modified: 26 ... more ... ID Code: 13996. Deposited By: Hülya Adak. Deposited On: 07 Jun 2010 11:30. Last Modified: 26 Jul 2010 15:26. Available Versions of this Item. Moderne Türkische Geschichte. (deposited 07 May 2007 03:00): Moderne Türkische Geschichte. ...

Dossier on Gender, Ethnicity and the Nation-State, New Perspectives on Turkey, 2010, 42 (Spring):... more Dossier on Gender, Ethnicity and the Nation-State, New Perspectives on Turkey, 2010, 42 (Spring): 9-30.

alide Edib ve Siyasal Şiddet: Ermeni Kırımı, Diktatörlük ve Şiddetsizlik, 2016

Bu kitabın başlangıç fikri, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü'nün 5-7 Mayıs 200... more Bu kitabın başlangıç fikri, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü'nün 5-7 Mayıs 2004'te düzenlediği bir sempozyumda ortaya çıktı. Sempozyum bildirilerinden yola çıkılarak oluşturulan makalelerin, "anlatı", "toplumsal cinsiyet", "mekan" ve "edebiyat tarihi" konularına göre gruplanmasıyla bu kitap oluştu. Bu kitap, öncelikle Ahmet Mithat, ancak aynı zamanda tüm bir Tanzimat dönemi edebiyatı ve modern edebiyatın kuruluşu konularında yeni ve verimli bir ilgiye yol açmayı hedefliyor. Kitabın hedef kitlesi önce Türk edebiyatı alanında çalışan araştırmacı ve öğrenciler, sonra beşeri bilimlerin diğer alanlarından okurlar olmakla birlikte, okuma eylemini ciddiye alan her alandan okuru da kapsamaktı. Bunu da yapmamak herhalde modern Türk okurlarının ilk öğretmeni olan Ahmet Mithat Efendi'ye ihanet etmek olurdu. Onu okumaya ve anlamaya yönelik bu kitap, onun pek çok eserini başlatırken kullandığı "Merhaba Ey Okur!" hitabına öykünerek, ona ses vermeyi amaçlıyor; "Merhaba Ey Muharrir!"

Papers by Hülya Adak

On land, memory and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Ahlat Ağacı, 2023

This article offers a critical reading of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) th... more This article offers a critical reading of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) through an exploration of the mythmaking and monumentalization surrounding the Gallipoli Battle and the multiple ways in which Ceylan’s film unsettles the foundational myths of the last century in Turkey. Ceylan’s scenes and characters are constructed in such a way that the male characters and particularly Sinan (the main character) refuse to succumb to hegemonic codes of masculinity. Through this cinematic refusal by an anti-hero (Sinan), the film addresses the crisis of hegemonic masculinities in their interconnectedness to militarism, nationalism, capitalism, and heteronormativity. Through Sinan’s quest for self-realization, the film signals not only the impotence and vanity of nationalist masculinities but also the caesuras and instabilities in national myths. As the last film of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new Land of Ghosts trilogy, which started with Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Winter Sleep, Ahlat Ağacı seems to close the cycle with a final scene that bespeaks the possibility of unearthing lost others of national mythmaking, bringing fertility and hope to the lands in which collective amnesia reigns supreme.

Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature, 2023

Gender + Justice Amid the Pandemic, 2021

Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte

New Perspectives on Turkey, 2010

A journey into women’s studies, project started in 2009 and it wanted to capture the stories and ... more A journey into women’s studies, project started in 2009 and it wanted to capture the stories and journeys of women studies in different parts of the world. It was felt that it was high time that the story of the next generation of feminists be told so that the future generations would know the struggles and efforts that went into making women’s studies a reality. The present book is a journey of 18 women across the world, who have struggled to give women’s studies a visibility and carved out a niche for it amidst the mainstream disciplines which are by and large very patriarchal in their approach. This story had to start from the individual. First the individuals had to make themselves sensitized to this issue and some were not familiar with the issue to begin with, while others were concerned with the reality around them which was not gender sensitive. They had to start with their own research and many could move beyond this and establish institutions and centres. Some where not so...

Women Mobilizing Memory, 2019

Journal of Comparative Drama, 2018

Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915, 2023

The interdisciplinary approach makes Critical Approaches to Genocide a useful resource for all students and scholars interested in the Armenian Genocide and memory studies.

Comparative Drama, 2018

alide Edib ve Siyasal Şiddet: Ermeni Kırımı, Diktatörlük ve Şiddetsizlik, 2016

On land, memory and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Ahlat Ağacı, 2023

Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature, 2023

Gender + Justice Amid the Pandemic, 2021

Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte

New Perspectives on Turkey, 2010

Women Mobilizing Memory, 2019

Journal of Comparative Drama, 2018

The linguistic heterogeneity and literary plurality of the Ottoman Empire has typically been expl... more The linguistic heterogeneity and literary plurality of the Ottoman Empire has typically been explored under various national literary traditions. This meant that milli edebiyat (national literature) of Ottoman-Turkish writers during the First World War, for instance, would be categorized as distinct from their Armenian, Greek, Arab or Kurdish contemporaries. In this article, I explore different conceptualizations of early Turkish nationalism in the milli edebiyat canon, while evaluating Armenian literature in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The map of various literary traditions outlined in this article needs to be complemented with analyses of Greek, Jewish, Kurdish, and Arabic literatures and other linguistic repertoires of the Ottoman Empire.

Memoirs of Halide Edib, Jan 1, 2004

Review of Genre et espace post-Ottoman, 2021

The concepts of gender and generation got a considerable workout during the plague year of the co... more The concepts of gender and generation got a considerable workout during the plague year of the coronavirus pandemic. In March and April 2020, American social media lit up with debates about the propriety of the phrase "boomer remover" with regard to a disease that disproportionately targeted those over the age of sixty-fi ve. On 23 March 2020, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, said on television that he thought that plenty of grandparents would be willing to die in order to save the economy for their grandchildren. 1 As the stresses of lockdowns continued, psychologists began warning about the deleterious eff ects on teenagers and young adults whose lives have been put on hold to protect their elders. Around the world, the demands of diff erent generations have been pitted against each other as politicians try to make public policies to prevent health systems from being overwhelmed. In terms of gender, extended quarantines and school shutdowns have led to an exodus of working women from the labor force. Mothers fi nd themselves disproportionately responsible for home schooling and domestic work even when fathers are available around the clock. The persistence of patriarchal gender roles whereby caregiving responsibilities "naturally" devolve onto the shoulders of women and girls has precipitated catastrophic levels of exhaustion and burnout. It is from within the prison cell of pandemic fatigue that I read with great interest the edited collection of Anna Artwinska and Agnieszka Mrozik, Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond, and it is through the prism of an extended confi nement that I refl ect on the importance of both gender and generation as salient categories of analysis for the experiences of twentieth-century communism. The volume is divided into four sections that deal with theoretical perspectives, comparative historical case studies, biographical accounts, and aesthetic representations. The authors in the fi rst section deploy a theoretical formulation of generation that grew out of Karl Mannheim's sociological approach from the early twentieth century. Mannheim described generation as a synchronic group of people bound together by their collective experience of certain historical events, such as the so-called Lost Generation that followed World War I and whatever name we collectively decide to give the generation of adolescents and young adults who survived the COVID-19 pandemic.

işte böyle güzelim... kadınların kadınlara anlattıkları cinsellik hikâyelerinden oluşan bir okuma... more işte böyle güzelim... kadınların kadınlara anlattıkları cinsellik hikâyelerinden oluşan bir okuma tiyatrosu. 2002 Şubat’ında biraraya gelerek önce birbirimizle, sonra da başka kadınlarla cinselliklerimizi konuşmaya başladık: Bastırılan, kışkırtılan, metalaşan, küfürleşen, gözlerden ırak yaşanan, gözümüze gözümüze sokulan, haz veren, gizlenen, utanılan, korkulan, susulan, arzulanan, içimizi kıpır kıpır yapan, kâbusa dönüşen, adı olmayan, adını başkalarının koyduğu cinselliklerimiz önce söze döküldü, sonra da yazıya.

Sel Yayıncılık tarafından Mayıs 2008’de yayınlandı

(Hülya Adak, Ayşe Gül Altınay, Esin Düzel, Nilgün Bayraktar)
işte böyle güzelim... İstanbul: Sel, 2008 (3. baskı 2012)

Öğretmenler "Mor Sertifika"yla Eğitimde Kadını Görünür Kılıyor 80'den fazla lise öğretmeni toplum... more Öğretmenler "Mor Sertifika"yla Eğitimde Kadını Görünür Kılıyor 80'den fazla lise öğretmeni toplumsal cinsiyet eğitici eğitiminin ardından "Mor Sertifika"larını aldı. Şimdi kız öğrencilere pozitif ayrımcılık yapıyor, MEB'e sunmak üzere cinsel taciz yönergesi hazırlıyorlar. Program 2009'da da sürecek.

Confrontations: 1915 in Contemporary Armenian Literature in Turkey and the Diaspora

Sinema ve Edebiyat Söyleşileri

In this presentation, I explore methodological challenges of studying a bilingual writer, activis... more In this presentation, I explore methodological challenges of studying a bilingual writer, activist, politician, and feminist whose work spans roughly 60 years. Halide Edib (Adıvar)'s life story and works provide challenges that make it difficult for scholars to make claims based on textual analysis of solitary works. Halide Edib writes at different historical moments to different target readers in different languages, discusses politics in different cultural milieux, and engages in self-translation and non-translation, while experimenting with different genres, varying from autobiography and the novel to absurdist drama. Through her example, I would like to expand to different methods of approaching Turkish literature in a comparative context.

Sexual Harassment and Gender Based Violence, 2020

Journal of Perpetrator Research 7.1 (2024), 189–199, 2024

Review of: Hülya Adak, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds., Critical Approaches to Gen... more Review of: Hülya Adak, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Ronald Grigor Suny,
eds., Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915 (New York: Routledge, 2023). 304 pp. (hardcover). GBP 125.00. ISBN
9780367085834.