Writing from the closet: Bilge Karasu's queer modernism

This dissertation aims to show how Bilge Karasu's texts represent normative violence and disrupt the heteronormative matrix. For this end, on the other hand, queer theory is an instrument, and on the other hand, I read Karasu's texts as an exploration of queer thinking themselves. By close reading Death in Troy (Troya), "The Prey" in The Garden of Departed Cats (GKB), Night and Kılavuz, the relationship between the themes of violence, paranoid thinking, writing, desire, and pleasure as well as their aesthetic reflections are scrutinized. This analysis draws a picture of Karasu's queer modernism composed of queer temporality and affect. (See Appendix A for an extended abstract)