This essay examines three works by women writers, Sevgi Soysal, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and Perihan Mağden, who experiment with feminine writing (l’écriture féminine) in Turkish literature and explore the intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality, and the possibilities of narrating queer sexualities. A brief biography of the individual writer is followed by a discussion of the works in question, that is, Tante Rosa (Aunt Rosa, 1968), Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei: hat zwei Türen, aus einer kam ich rein, aus der anderen ging ich raus (Life Is a Caravansary: Has Two Doors, I Went in One, I Came Out the Other, 1992), and Ali ile Ramazan (Ali and Ramazan, 2010). This essay is not a road map to the last five decades of countless works produced by women writers in Turkey, but it highlights pivotal turning points in the way the particular novels...

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