The Representations of Kurdish Women in Selected Turkish Novels
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v9n3a794الملخص
The representations of minorities by the mainstream writers have frequently been viewed negatively. The depiction has been of a major concern to the literary writings. However, the representations of Kurdish women in Turkish literary works has rarely been tackled in scholarly papers and researches. Generally, the life of a Kurdish woman is molded by patriarchal practices, traditions, and customs that govern all social zones, rather than the legal rights. The patriarchal ideologies embedded in women’s mind make them believe that they could do nothing but what is expected from them; to be submissive and obedient.This research paper focuses on the representation of the Kurdish women in selected modern Turkish novels by three particular Turkish novelists: Honor (Penguin, 2012) by Elif Shafak written in English language ; Face to Face by Ayşe Kulin (Everest, 2006) written in Turkish ; The Legend of Ararat ( Collins and Harvill Press, 197) by Yashar Kemal written in Turkish . The research aims at selecting a variety of authors based on gender, ethnicity, Language and region. Yashar Kemal, is a Turkish writer of a Kurdish origin from Gökçedam, a village in the southern province of Osmaniya; Elif Shafak, is a Turkish-British writer who lives abroad and Ayşe Kulin, a woman writer from Istanbul. By means of textual analysis, the study investigates the representation of Kurdish women in these texts. Through a comparative approach, the paper endeavors to examine the ways in which the selected authors depict the Kurdish women and their social predicaments in their fictional works. Moreover, it investigates the images and conditions these authors depict to the mainstream Turkish readers as well as to the public readers in the rest of the world. This is portrayed through the construction of specific female characters that enhances a stereotype Kurdish women, who are powerless, submissive, ignorant and victims of the patriarch Kurdish society in southwest Turkey. It also explore the diversity in the authors' representation; the sympathetic to the Kurds, challenging the stereotypes viewpoints of the Kurdish women or the negative image and the harsh representation that includes depicting misconceptions and defects in the construction of the Kurdish identity and social structure. The women in the novels are presented as victims of the gender-based system simply for having been born female; they are marginalized and discriminated against in a variety of ways.
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التنزيلات
منشور
كيفية الاقتباس
إصدار
القسم
الرخصة
بيان الحقوق الفكرية
حقوق التأليف
يوافق المؤلفون الذين ينشرون في هذه المجلة على المصطلحات التالية:
١. يحتفظ المؤلفون بحقوق الطبع والنشر ومنح حق المجلة في النشر الأول مع العمل المرخص له في نفس الوقت بموجب ترخيص المشاع الإبداعي [سيسي بي-نك-ند 4.0] الذي يسمح للآخرين بمشاركة العمل مع الإقرار بحقوق التأليف والنشر الأولي في هذه المجلة.
٢. يمكن للمؤلفين الدخول في ترتيبات تعاقدية إضافية منفصلة للتوزيع غير الحصري للنسخة المنشورة من المجلة من العمل (على سبيل المثال، نشرها في مستودع مؤسسي أو نشرها في كتاب) مع الإقرار بنسخة أولية نشر في هذه المجلة.
٣. يسمح للمؤلفين وتشجيعهم على نشر عملهم عبر الإنترنت (على سبيل المثال، في المستودعات المؤسسية أو على موقعهم على الويب) قبل وأثناء عملية التقديم، حيث يمكن أن يؤدي إلى التبادلات الإنتاجية، فضلا عن الاستشهاد المبكر والأكبر للعمل المنشورة ( انظر تأثير النفاذ المفتوح).
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