Bad Romance: Toxic Masculinity, Love, and Heartbreak in Interwar Italian and Turkish Women's Novels, 1923–32

IF 0.6 3区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Journal of Womens History Pub Date : 2021-06-03 DOI:10.1353/JOWH.2021.0014

Kara A. Peruccio

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Abstract:By analyzing Sibilla Aleramo's Il frustino (1932), Grazia Deledda's Annalena Bilisini (1927), Suat Derviş's Behire'nin Talipleri (1923) and Gönül gibi (1928), and Nezihe Muddin's Benliǧim benimdir! (1929), this article argues that in interwar authoritarian contexts, women writing about emotional lives functioned as political commentary and critique. By comparing Kemalist Turkey with Fascist Italy, I critically rethink transnational flows in the interwar period by examining sovereign states on the European periphery. The aformentioned authors wrote male characters who embodied a toxic masculinity that complicated notions of the Mediterranean paradigm of honor and shame. Because male love interests felt insecure or embarrassed, female characters found themselves heartbroken. The authors wrote this as a feminist affective constellation, ultimately producing resilience and courage. By studying the experiential, emotional, and affective dimensions of Italian and Turkish women's literature, historians can more comprehensively analyze the authoritarian experience.

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糟糕的罗曼史：战争期间意大利和土耳其女性小说中有毒的男子气概、爱情和心碎，1923–32

摘要：通过分析西比拉·阿莱拉莫的《Il compustino》（1932）、格拉齐亚·德莱达的《Annalena Bilini》（1927）、苏阿特·德尔维什的《Behire'nin Talipleri》（1923）和Gönül gibi（1928）以及内齐赫·穆丁的《Benliǧim benimdir！（1929），这篇文章认为，在两次世界大战之间的威权主义背景下，女性写情感生活起到了政治评论和批判的作用。通过将凯末主义土耳其与法西斯意大利进行比较，我通过考察欧洲周边的主权国家，批判性地重新思考了两次世界大战期间的跨国流动。上述作者所写的男性角色体现了一种有毒的男子气概，使地中海荣誉和耻辱范式的概念复杂化。因为男性对爱情的兴趣感到不安全或尴尬，女性角色发现自己心碎了。作者将其作为一个女权主义情感星座来写，最终产生了韧性和勇气。通过研究意大利和土耳其女性文学的经验、情感和情感维度，历史学家可以更全面地分析独裁经验。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Women"s History is the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women"s history. It does not attempt to impose one feminist "line" but recognizes the multiple perspectives captured by the term "feminisms." Its guiding principle is a belief that the divide between "women"s history" and "gender history" can be, and is, bridged by work on women that is sensitive to the particular historical constructions of gender that shape and are shaped by women"s experience.