The Narrator’s Ironic Position in Sevgi Soysal’s Yenişehir’de Bir Öğle Vakti and Yıldırım Bölge Kadınlar Koğuşu
Sevgi Soysal’s first short story collections, Tutkulu Perçem (1962) and Tante Rosa (1968), address issues such as motherhood, housewifeliness, and domestic labor. The works present different feminine situations and employ considerably strong language to discuss the development of women’s consciousne...
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| Language: | English |
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Istanbul University Press
2021-12-01
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| Series: | İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/4ABA9239ADE44849A6E611CF93B76589 |
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| Summary: | Sevgi Soysal’s first short story collections, Tutkulu Perçem (1962) and Tante Rosa (1968), address issues such as motherhood, housewifeliness, and domestic labor. The works present different feminine situations and employ considerably strong language to discuss the development of women’s consciousness. In works following the military intervention of March 12, 1971, this tone is withdrawn; Soysal removes the issue of women’s awareness from the context of gender and transforms it into a portrayal of the development of socialist awareness. Her works offer a direct disclosure of the events of the memorandum: the practices of the military administration, the functioning of the bureaucracy, and the unlawful physical and psychological violence experienced by the socialists. Having been actively subject to these processes, Soysal has a Sevgi Soysal’s first short story collections, Tutkulu Perçem (1962) and Tante Rosa (1968), address issues such as motherhood, housewifeliness, and domestic labor. The works present different feminine situations and employ considerably strong language to discuss the development of women’s consciousness. In works following the military intervention of March 12, 1971, this tone is withdrawn; Soysal removes the issue of women’s awareness from the context of gender and transforms it into a portrayal of the development of socialist awareness. Her works offer a direct disclosure of the events of the memorandum: the practices of the military administration, the functioning of the bureaucracy, and the unlawful physical and psychological violence experienced by the socialists. Having been actively subject to these processes, Soysal has a narrator who reflects her own experiences with an ironic attitude in her works. In this article, Soysal’s memoir Yıldırım Bölge Kadınlar Koğuşu and her novel Yenişehir’de Bir Öğle Vakti will be analyzed. The function of the narrator’s ironic attitude will be determined both in these two works and in texts that discuss the military memorandum, with reference to the powers assumed by law enforcement officers and to daily life in civil society. |
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| ISSN: | 2602-2648 |