ПРОБЛЕМАТИКА ТУРЕЦКОЙ ЖЕНСКОЙ ПРОЗЫ НАЧАЛА XXI ВЕКА: ГЕНДЕРНЫЙ АСПЕКТ
PROBLEMATICS OF TURKISH WOMEN’S PROSE OF THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY IN GENDER PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: Seven novels written by four Turkish female writers in the last ten years are under consideration. The main task is to find out the common in problematics, literary techniques associated with the specifics of gender perception in the Turkish female novel. The painful transformation process of the traditionalist views on gender roles in the family and society under the pressure of new norms and standards of the globalized world is in the focus of female authors. The gender approach to the analysis of Turkish literary works appeared with the author’s awareness of her feminine essence, as opposed to the masculine point of view dominating in the life and literature. The previously taboo topics started being discussed due to the process of women writers’ self-identification The literary heroine is represented as a so-called “traumatic subject”. The theme of violence against a girl, woman caused by a man, her parents, and relatives permeates the narrative. The main conflicts of novels concern parents’ relationship, as well as mother-daughter and father-daughter relationships. The method of “autobiographical confession” dominates in modern women’s writing. The critical feminine look at the private and social life of parents, blaming them for the unsuccessfulness of their children in their future adult life are new for the Turkish female novel. The chronotope of these novels is characterized by a wide geographical coverage and non-linearity of time, sometimes its cyclicality. The discontinuity of time is provided by the character’s associative reminiscences (also through the inclusion of old letters and diaries in the narrative) which interrupt the time sequence.

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