Öteki, İktidar ve erkeklik ekseninde murathan mungan’ın “binali ile temir” ve “dumrul ile azrail” öyküleri

Abstract

The stories of Murathan Mungan have a structure that allows for interdisciplinary studies and comparative readings. There are two main features that support this structure. The first is the author’s writing pattern that combines/synthesizes tradition and modernity. On the one hand, the author uses the characteristics of traditional narrative genres such as fairy tales, myths, epics, folk narratives and on the other hand, he benefits from the modern narrative techniques such as intertextuality, rewriting and metafiction. The second is the author’s polyphonic and elaborate fiction method. The author establishes a bond among the miscellaneous concepts which are research topics in the fields of sociology, psychology, philosophy, history and eventually constructs a productive narrative ground. In this article, author’s two stories reflecting the aforementioned features were examined around the concepts of other, hierarchy, power and masculinity. In this context, in the first place a conceptual discussion was carried out in order to understand the deep structures of the stories, then the story “Binali ile Temir” in the triangle of “phallus-gun-power” and the story “Dumrul ile Azrail” in the triangle of “body-bridge-power” was analyzed in detail. © 2019 Cyprus International University. All rights reserved.