Tanzimat'tan Cumhuriyet'e Ressentiment'in dönüşümü : Nezihe Muhddin ve Leylâ Erbil
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Halman, TalâtDate
2012Publisher
Bilkent University
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English
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Abstract
Leyla Erbil, in addition to her handling the social and political facts in her
literal work, has a unique place in Turkish literature because of her expression
techniques. Nezihe Muhiddin, on the other hand, has reflected the problems of her
own era to her works; critized the institution of slavery and concubinage. The facts
that both Leyla Erbil and Nezihe Muhiddin adapt the sociological aspects of the life
to literary texts, and they focus on woman issues make them significant to consider
in this work.
The aim of this paper is to make comparisons of these two writers who both
examine the social events. This comperative work aims to evaluate/explain the
problems occured due to the social statue of women, and how these problems are
concluded; thus how these conclusions are reflected on literature. Considering the
social statue of women; Nietzche's technical term "ressentiment", for which he uses
to explain the slavery ethics, will be highlighted in the paper.
In the first chapter, some background the information is presented about the
identity of writers and their works which are examined in this paper. The works
studied are Benliğim Benimdir!(I Am The Master!), Güzellik Kraliçesi(Beauty
Queen), Sus Kalbim Sus(Hush Now Hush) which are written by Nezihe Muhiddin, and Leyla Erbil's Tuhaf Bir Kadın(A Strange Woman), Karanlığın Günü(The Day of
Darkness), Üç Başlı Ejderha(Three Headed Dragon), Mektup Aşkları(Love in
Letters), Cüce(The Dwarf) and Kalan (Remains).
After the second chapter, titled as "The Notions that can be Associated with
Modernism" which includes the explanation of the "ressentiment and triangular
desire" , the modernisation process in Turkey is historically examined in the third
chapter, titled as " The Critical view on Turkish Modernisation Project." A new
perspective is brought by means of hegemonical menhood and gender.
The emergence of ressentiment and the transformation of ressentiment in
women's modernization process are examined and explained with the examples from
the chosen works, in the last chapter titled as " The Ressentiment of Women on
Literal Level".