Yoksulluktan Kurtulma Bağlamında Türk Kadın Tipolojisine Masal Penceresinden Bakmak
Viewing the Typology of Turkish Women From the Perspective of Tales in the Context of Getting Rid of Poverty

Summary/Abstract: Literary works are the reflection of social life. Especially, the tales dating back hundreds of years and transmitting the common values of societies include rich materials in terms of the reflection of cultural lives. It is a quite natural process to place the cultural codes in this literary genre, which is more widespread than other genres from oral tradition such as myths, legends, folk tales etc. At this point, it is important to read, evaluate and make sense of the tales from socio-cultural perspective. Although men are considered to be the main actor managing and maintaining the families and playing the lead role in the economic life in Turkish society, Turkish tales demonstrate that Turkish women are the resources of controlling, instructive and original ideas in the background. It is quite normal that an emphasis is given on the male characters/personalities in the genres specific to male narrators (such as legends, folk tales, anecdotes etc.), and that men are in active status according to the features of the genres. However, it is out of question to humiliate, ignore or despise the women in these genres. Turkish women just take smaller place in the above-mentioned literary works when compared to male characters. On the other hand, active role of female characters in the tales identified with the female narrators called “mothers of tales” should be considered as an effort for women to reveal themselves as active personalities of real lives. Mothers of tales try to demonstrate the real value of women by imposing positive discrimination. Although Turkish women are characterized as the symbol of patience in the tales, they take part directly or indirectly in political, economic, religious and cultural life. Women eliminate negative conditions by means of their original ideas, entrepreneurship, and courage that should be appreciated. In this study, we aim to indicate the position of Turkish women in society from the perspectives of tales and determine her typologic characteristics in this context.

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