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“Accepted Motherhood” in Novels Of Sâmiha Ayverdi And Halide Nusret Zorlutuna
Social, political, epistemological and ontological re-construction process in almost every aspect, aimed creating “the new human”, and while doing this, did not ignore rendering “the modern family” a political resort. The modern family was envisaged as a metaphor who has strong desires for a powerful state for the Republic policies and who builds up the society itself. Family, in which children start socializing before school, was seen as field in which roles of the woman, the man and the childern were re-identified in accordance with the modernization movements of the Republic. In this context, the role of maternity undertaken by the family and women has been an issue that women authors of that period meticulously emphasized.
Sâmiha Ayverdi, whose first novel was published in 1938, argued the judgement, which constrains women and has a tendency to perceive womanhood/motherhood just as a matter of feeling, with her sufistic thought on modernization movement of the Republic. Ayverdi differentiated herself from other woman authors of the period by fictionalizing women as a personality, rather than just a character or individual person and by bringing new offers to the “accepted woman” thoughts of both the tradition and the republic. When compared with novels of the coeval author Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, whose first novel was published in 1925, the difference can be seen clearly. The woman, who were fictionalized by Zorlutuna with a holistic homeland emphasis, took place in the novels as heroins, and depicted with a motherhood role, which bruised their entities. The attitudes and feelings, which indicates “valour” in Zorlutuna’s novels, evolve to a conception, for which self thoughts and feeling have priority, but never ignores the family ties responsibilty it requires. Ayverdi removes hierarcy from the family and tries to make Islamic and sufistic view as life philosophy. National responsibilities, which enable women to develop willpower against despondences of life, mingles with moral values.
Motherhood concept, accepted family conception of the Republic and attitudes of the two authors against these terms will be analysed comparatively and Ayverdi’s and Zorlutuna’s stances in women literature will be tried to be determined in this study. The differences between the two authors will be indicated both by mentioning complex statements like tradition and modernity, and emphasizing the difference in their commenting on Islam and nationalist movements.
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Sâmiha Ayverdi, Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Accepted Family, Accepted Motherhood-