Adalet Ağaoğlu`nun Dar zamanlar üçlemesinde "kimlik" sorunsalı
Author(s)
Advisor
Halman, TalâtDate
2005Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
Adalet Ağaoğlu, since she published her first novel Lying Down to Die in 1973,
has been one of the leading names of Turkish Literature thanks to her approach to the
social developments and the narrative features she has applied (to her novels?). The
author principally based all her works of different genres-play, story and novel-upon the
social experiences. Besides, she has not limited her works in a classical/convenient
frame; she has been an explorer in the effect of employing fictional attributions and
narration elements, and reflecting the time.
She has preferred selecting characters inside (of) the social frame in all her
novels, in which the identity questionings of characters who sort out with the society that
call them into being and who tend to a new existential stage are well to the fore. In this
thesis, the author’s Dar Zamanlar trilogy consisting of Lying Down to Die, A Wedding
Party (1979) and No (1987) has been examined in the light of identity problematic.
In the first chapter of the thesis named “Instant Reflecting History – Individual
Experiencing (the) Instant”, narrative techniques and fictional attributions that are used
in Dar Zamanlar trilogy are studied under different titles for each novel. In this chapter,
it is concluded that identity problematic reveals per se while explaining the technical
poperties, the author aimed at introducing characters and theme in a particular narrative
feature, and the author ascertained the best technique to convey her material in the most
suitable manner.
The second chapter named “The Multilayer Structure of The Identity, The Multivocal
Narrative Interpreting Society” is detached/reserved for the identity problematic.
In this chapter, Ağaoğlu’s questioning of the concept of identity and her approach to the
social evolution of the period are considered at length under the titles “citizen”,
“intellectual”, “revolutionist” and “others”. In this chapter, the relation between the
techniques Ağaoğlu made use of and the presentation of the characters are depicted from
another aspect while the transformations of the characters pursued throughout three
novels are examined.
In Dar Zamanlar trilogy, Adalet Ağaoğlu wished/favoured to portray the social
and political evolution of the period between 1938 and 1980s in view of the selfquestioning
of the characters she chose among the intellectuals. Besides, it is observed
that the diverse narrative features of the novels were derived from her quest for the most
proper techniques to present her theme.