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Item Open Access Fatma Aliye hanımı`n romanlarında kadın sorunu(Bilkent University, 2005) Canbaz, FirdevsBeing the first Muslim Turkish woman novelist discussing the “woman question”, Fatma Aliye Hanim is a prominent literary figure in Turkish history. Since her, woman and woman problems were the subject that only men discuss. With her novels, for the first time, she portrayed an alternative “model woman” to the woman prototype that had been displayed in Ottoman novels. In this dissertation, her approach to woman question has been studied. In spite of the fact that to what extent the women movement in the late period of the Ottoman Empire was influenced by the feminist movement in the Western World has not been spotted exactly, the demands of feminism and Ottoman women are under the scope of this study for they are crucial to understanding Fatma Aliye Hanım’s view of the woman problem. Fatma Aliye Hanim’s essays that are closely related to the titles of the chapters of this dissertation have been used in this study. Nevertheless, the works which have been referred to as the main sources are her novels. Her novel, Hayal ve Hakikat (Reality and Imagination), which she wrote in cooperation with Ahmet Mithat Efendi has been exploited in the study but her novels Muhâzarât (1892), Refet (1896), Udî (1898), Levâyih-i Hayât (1898) and Enîn (1910) has been reviewed in this dissertation. At the end of the study, it has been proved that Fatma Aliye Hanim’s novels, however they may seem likely to be read as feminist readings at the surface level, when thoroughly examined, are unlikely to be labeled as works of feminist literature and the writer is unlikely to be categorized as a feminist writer, accordingly. It has been stated that, although she deals with the problems of women in her novels, as a result of her social, cultural and religious situation, the way she assesses these problems is different. In conclusion Fatma Aliye Hanim has to be defined as a conservative Muslim woman writer since her proposed solutions to the problems depicted in her novels are based on Islam.Item Open Access Peride Celal'ın romanlarında kadın kimlikleri(Bilkent University, 2002) Karahan, BurcuPeride Celâl (b. 1915) was first acknowledged as a writer when short stories and novels were used to be serialized in newspapers and thus increased the circulation of newspapers. Peride Celâl has written numerous short stories and novels since 1936, the year her first novel was serialized. The author’s works, which primarily focus on female identities, are classified by most critics into two main groups. According to that classification, the novels, which were published between 1938-1949 and are known as “romances”, represent her first period, and those published between 1954-1990 represent the second one. Dar Yol (The Narrow Road) (1949) is accepted as the final novel of the author’s first period and Üç Kadının Romanı (Three Women’s Novel) (1954) is considered to be the groundwork for the second period. These two novels are hence, believed to be outstanding milestones in Peride Celâl’s literary career. The aim of this study is to depict the continuity rather than the so-called disunity among Peride Celâl’s novels, especially when one focuses on female identities. Such themes as “love and interpersonal relations”, “motherly love”, “perception of the body”, and “solipsism”, through which Peride Celâl’s female characters are replicated, are among the topics covered in this study, as well as narcissistic character traits that can be inferred through psychoanalytic interpretation of those themes. Besides the works of Sigmund Freud, Otto Kernberg and Heinz Kohut, which mainly focus on the issue of narcissism, the works of D. W. Winnicot, an important psychoanalyst of the British school of object relations, which are on mother-child relations, will be the main sources in the theoretical part of the thesis. For this study, three novels, each of which represents a different period in Peride Celâl’s career as a novelist, are selected as the main texts to be analyzed. These novels are Dar Yol (The Narrow Road) (1949), Üç Kadının Romanı (Three Women’s Novel) (1954), and Kurtlar (Wolves) (1990).