HEИндивидуална стипендия2023–2026

WCOLW · Women's Criminality in the Ottoman Literary World (1860-1922)

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-06-01 → 2026-06-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 265 648 €
Участници: 2
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF

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Накратко на български

Женската престъпност в османската и ранната турска литература се анализира чрез романи като „İntibah“, за да се види как са изобразявани жените-престъпници. Това помага да се разбере как литературата е отразявала промените в социалните норми и представата за ролята на жената.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Women's Criminality in the Ottoman Literary World (1860-1922)

This research investigates the evolving representation of female criminality in Ottoman and early Republican Turkish literature between 1870 and 1926. It contextualizes this inquiry within the broader transformations of the Ottoman criminal justice system, gender norms, and the emergence of new literary genres, particularly the crime novel and dime novel. The study seeks to understand how literary narratives reflected and reinforced dominant social anxieties about women’s roles, sexuality, and agency in a modernizing society. Drawing on feminist criminological theory, the article critically examines selected novels—including İntibah by Namık Kemal, Esrar-ı Cinâyat by Ahmet Mithat, Milli Cinâyat Koleksiyonu, and Peyami Safa’s Tilki Leman and Çekirge Zehra—to analyze how language, plot structure, and character development shaped the portrayal of women perpetrators. The main objective is to highlight the ideological function of literature in constructing symbolic boundaries between moral and deviant femininity. It traces how early narratives marginalized or pathologized female criminal agency through metaphors of seduction, madness, or supernatural evil, while later works—especially those influenced by dime novel culture—allowed for more autonomous, strategic, and visible female transgressors. The study aims to reveal the intersection of literary modernity, criminology, and gender, showing how popular fiction participated in negotiating modern concepts of womanhood and crime. Ultimately, the article contributes to a deeper understanding of how literature served both as a mirror of societal transformations and a vehicle for reimagining gendered power and deviance in late Ottoman and early Republican cultural history.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project sketches a broader framework for the characterization of women offenders, expression of women crime committing, and their involvement as both victims and offenders in criminal cases not only in fictional narrations of Ottoman literature but also in real cases that made news in the Ottoman press. I will critically address male-centric discoursing, repetitive imputations, stereotypical and cliché wordy choices, and reiterative vocabulary for the identification of female criminals by examining Ottoman newspapers, magazines, journals, and books from the late Tanzimat period (the 1860s) up to the demise of the Empire (1922). This work will mainly utilize feminist criminal approaches that follow iconoclastic ways to stand up against the systematic underestimation and negligence of androcentric crime theories and their effects on historical narratives. These all restrict women’s participation and involvement in criminal cases and identify female perpetrators without their criminal agency. As a part of this understanding, their voices as wrongdoers were mostly silenced in the Ottoman press and literary works. In this regard, this study will especially dwell on women offenders who committed offenses contrary to their vulnerable, fragile, and sensitive stereotypical features, all too frequently used as the reasons for the incapability of women to commit serious crimes. Succinctly, the major goals of this project are to analyze the perspective, vocabulary, wording, and conceptualization by the Ottoman press and intellectual productions in the narrations of women’s delinquency and the identification of criminal women’s agency through literary criticism and to raise the voices of Ottoman criminal women in real and fictional crime stories in the light of feminist criminal theory.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN · BerlinКоординаторГермания
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY · STANFORDСъединени щати