«VICINA E AL TEMPO STESSO COSÌ DISTANTE»: ÇILGIN GIBI DI SUAT DERVIŞ O DELLA LIMINALITÀ TRA PIÙ MONDI

This chapter explores the human, political, and literary trajectory of Suat Derviş (1905–1972), a unique and long-marginalized figure in modern Turkish literature who embodies the complex intersections of gender, cosmopolitanism, and resistance across the Ottoman decline and the early Kemalist Republic. The study focuses on her 1945 novel Çılgın Gibi (Like Mad), analyzing it as a transitional work marking Derviş's aesthetic shift from early gothic experiments toward social realism. By examining Çılgın Gibi, the chapter highlights Derviş’s eccentric feminist perspective, which argues that genuine female liberation is impossible without economic independence. Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates how Derviş developed poetic and rhetorical strategies of resistance to challenge both Kemalist state-sanctioned feminism and the male-dominated literary canon, offering a critical lens on gender relations and ideological dissent in modern Turkey.