@article{WomenontheVerge:Emotions:2596,
      recid = {2596},
      author = {Peruccio, Kara A.},
      title = {Women on the Verge: Emotions, Authoritarianism, and the  Novel in Italy and Turkey, 1922-1936},
      publisher = {The University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2020-08},
      pages = {252},
      abstract = {Reading Italian authors Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960),  Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), and Maria Messina (1887-1944)  together with Turkish writers Suat Derviş (1904/5-1972),  Halide Edip (1884-1964), and Nezihe Muhiddin (1889-1958),  this dissertation explores how Italian and Turkish women  authors responded to and critiqued Fascist and Kemalist  gender politics. By analyzing their novels as participating  in a feminist conversation, historians can assess how some  women sought political expression and articulated political  consciousness outside traditional, institutional spheres in  two independent, autonomous states in the interwar  Mediterranean. The comparison between Fascist Italy and  Kemalist Turkey highlight significant political concerns  for these authoritarian regimes during the 1920s and early  1930s. Using cultural sources, like novels, expands the  historical political archive when certain voices are  marginalized and suppressed. This dissertation provides new  interpretations of the authors’ personal and political  lives and argues that their literary production and  political commitments were mutually constitutive. Through  the themes of romance and heartbreak, age, and motherhood,  “Women on the Verge” highlights modes of feminist critique  vis-à-vis the novels’ emotional content. In a period marked  by the suppression of opposition and the continued,  intensified subordination of women to men, these six  novelists used fiction as a hidden transcript to advocate  for women’s autonomy.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2596},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2596},
}