The Role of Homeland Concept as a desideratum in the Construction of Tanzimat Era’s Masculinity

This study explores masculinity and the ideology of nationalism during the tanzimat era. i analyze namık kemal’s literary piece, vatan yahut silistre, by contextualizing it within the tanzimat period of turkish literature. pursuing deleuzien analysis of desire, as a simultaneous production of the desire and the object of the desire, i explore masculinity as an object of desire which is deemed as a part of homeland. i also underline the importance of the homeland, as the very determining concept for society’s masculinist hierarchy. using the methodological tools of textual analysis, i show mutually constitutive characteristics of the relationship between nationalism as a power discourse and gender. by this, i emphasize the gender dimension of nationalism, which exists at irritating levels with its racist reflections in contemporary discourses.