Papers by Kutay Onaylı
Culture, Theory, and Critique, 2025
What follows is a discussion of There's a Snake in Alemdağ ('Alemdağ'da Var Bir Yılan'), the 1954... more What follows is a discussion of There's a Snake in Alemdağ ('Alemdağ'da Var Bir Yılan'), the 1954 collection of short stories by the Turkish author Sait Faik Abasıyanık. Alemdağ, the final addition to Abasıyanık's celebrated literary career, is shaped by its author's unprecedented openness about homoerotic desire and intimacy, and the book represents one of the earliest examples of what may be called 'queer literature' in modern Turkey. I am concerned here primarily with two aspects of Abasıyanık's project that seem to have escaped scholarly notice so far: Firstly, I draw attention to the connections between Abasıyanık's conception of queer being and desire in 1950s Istanbul and traditional Ottoman literary modes of desire and intimacy between males. Secondly, I perform a close reading of the book's central narrative to show how spatiality-as it unfolds in the tangible urban, domestic, and natural environments in and around Istanbul-is central to Abasıyanık's understanding, and representation, of queer being, desire, and intimacy.
A Century of Greek-Turkish Relations: A Handbook, 2024
An accessible, detailed textbook overview of the history of Greeks in the Republic of Turkey from... more An accessible, detailed textbook overview of the history of Greeks in the Republic of Turkey from the end of the Greek-Turkish War of 1920-22 to the present day.
Book Reviews by Kutay Onaylı
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2021
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Papers by Kutay Onaylı
Book Reviews by Kutay Onaylı