From Logic to Idealized Female Image: Halide Edip’s Çaresaz / Mantıktan İdealize Edilmiş Kadın İmgesine: Halide Edip’in Çaresaz’ı
Born in the late nineteenth century, Halide Edip Adıvar is one of the leading women writers of Turkish literature. In the works of the author, who has made a name for himself with his articles on stories, poems, memoirs, translation, analysis and various subjects, especially novels; social, cultu...
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| description | Born in the late nineteenth century, Halide Edip Adıvar is one of the
leading women writers of Turkish literature. In the works of the author, who
has made a name for himself with his articles on stories, poems, memoirs,
translation, analysis and various subjects, especially novels; social, cultural,
economic and political change of the period he lived in and their effects finds
reflections both with traces of his life and in the guidance of his ideological
thoughts. Çaresaz, published as a novel ten years after the author’s first
serialization in Cumhuriyet Newspaper in 1961, describes the social structure
of the period with the changes it went through. In the novel, where this change
is explained through a woman, the modern and traditional image of a woman
is considered in comparison. Trying to keep up with the changing conditions
of modern life with the patriarchal family structure, the novel’s female
protagonist is remembered in unity with her understanding of gender and the
roles she foresees and/or imposes on men and women. The female protagonist
of the novel, Mediha, not only reflects a member of society on the path to
modernity, but also becomes an image of a woman who is idealized. Love,
which is considered as the main trace in the novel, consisting of a total of five
parts, finds its reflection with different meanings and views. Istanbul, chosen
as a space in the novel, takes on the function of showing the traces of this
change through daily life as a city-oriented one. In the work, issues such as
male and female relationships, love and marriage, family, material and moral
values, official and non-official marriage are reflected in the period in which
the novel was written and the views of its people. The name Çaresaz, which
gives the novel its name, refers to a helpful and devoted young teacher, while
Mediha refers to an idealized woman. While the author shows the woman with
these two sides, she implicitly invites the reader to share the rightful triumph
of Mediha, who transforms into an idealized woman from logic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e9bfa7360d8c4962902dcfddd9821bc82022-12-22T03:23:10ZengCyprus International UniversityFolklor/Edebiyat1300-74911300-74912021-05-0127106-Ek11613010.22559/folklor.1671From Logic to Idealized Female Image: Halide Edip’s Çaresaz / Mantıktan İdealize Edilmiş Kadın İmgesine: Halide Edip’in Çaresaz’ıHanife Nalân Genç0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789Prof.Dr., Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Born in the late nineteenth century, Halide Edip Adıvar is one of the leading women writers of Turkish literature. In the works of the author, who has made a name for himself with his articles on stories, poems, memoirs, translation, analysis and various subjects, especially novels; social, cultural, economic and political change of the period he lived in and their effects finds reflections both with traces of his life and in the guidance of his ideological thoughts. Çaresaz, published as a novel ten years after the author’s first serialization in Cumhuriyet Newspaper in 1961, describes the social structure of the period with the changes it went through. In the novel, where this change is explained through a woman, the modern and traditional image of a woman is considered in comparison. Trying to keep up with the changing conditions of modern life with the patriarchal family structure, the novel’s female protagonist is remembered in unity with her understanding of gender and the roles she foresees and/or imposes on men and women. The female protagonist of the novel, Mediha, not only reflects a member of society on the path to modernity, but also becomes an image of a woman who is idealized. Love, which is considered as the main trace in the novel, consisting of a total of five parts, finds its reflection with different meanings and views. Istanbul, chosen as a space in the novel, takes on the function of showing the traces of this change through daily life as a city-oriented one. In the work, issues such as male and female relationships, love and marriage, family, material and moral values, official and non-official marriage are reflected in the period in which the novel was written and the views of its people. The name Çaresaz, which gives the novel its name, refers to a helpful and devoted young teacher, while Mediha refers to an idealized woman. While the author shows the woman with these two sides, she implicitly invites the reader to share the rightful triumph of Mediha, who transforms into an idealized woman from logic.https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/143321733_Gen%c3%a7-%c3%87aresaz.pdfhalide edip adıvarçaresazwomanimagemarriage |
| spellingShingle | Hanife Nalân Genç From Logic to Idealized Female Image: Halide Edip’s Çaresaz / Mantıktan İdealize Edilmiş Kadın İmgesine: Halide Edip’in Çaresaz’ı Folklor/Edebiyat halide edip adıvar çaresaz woman image marriage |
| title | From Logic to Idealized Female Image: Halide Edip’s Çaresaz / Mantıktan İdealize Edilmiş Kadın İmgesine: Halide Edip’in Çaresaz’ı |
| title_full | From Logic to Idealized Female Image: Halide Edip’s Çaresaz / Mantıktan İdealize Edilmiş Kadın İmgesine: Halide Edip’in Çaresaz’ı |
| title_fullStr | From Logic to Idealized Female Image: Halide Edip’s Çaresaz / Mantıktan İdealize Edilmiş Kadın İmgesine: Halide Edip’in Çaresaz’ı |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Logic to Idealized Female Image: Halide Edip’s Çaresaz / Mantıktan İdealize Edilmiş Kadın İmgesine: Halide Edip’in Çaresaz’ı |
| title_short | From Logic to Idealized Female Image: Halide Edip’s Çaresaz / Mantıktan İdealize Edilmiş Kadın İmgesine: Halide Edip’in Çaresaz’ı |
| title_sort | from logic to idealized female image halide edip s caresaz mantiktan idealize edilmis kadin imgesine halide edip in caresaz i |
| topic | halide edip adıvar çaresaz woman image marriage |
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