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Sedat Veyis Örnek’in Öykülerinde Kadının Görünümü
Descriptions of Women in Sedat Veyis Örnek's Stories

Author(s): Koray Üstün
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Cultural history, Short Story, Turkish Literature
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Turkish short story; Sedat Veyis Örnek; women; female identities; masculine narrator;

Summary/Abstract: Sedat Veyis Örnek (1929-1980) was a academician who left a mark with his studies on folk. Besides his academic studies, Örnek dealt with literature since his youth. He continued his short stories for many years that he started to write in high school. In these short stories, descriptions reflecting his powerful observation and analysis draw the attention. The author put humans in the middle of his short stories that he wrote both event-focused and situation-focused. Therefore, he created narrators who can be read through different perspectives with their criticized and aggrandized weaknesses and strengths. As they present their own worlds, these narrators perceived women as a physical meta and described them as a physical desire object with a masculine discourse. They pictured women as a part of the panorama emerging from the impressions of the environment on the narrator. Sedat Veyis Örnek who blended his impressions with his folklore sensitivity. Besides his scientific studies, he used his sensitivities as a resource in his literary activities. When his stories have read with focus on the female identity, they have seen that the author presents his successful observations through the masculine narrator. In Örnek’s stories about cities and wars, humanity has been lost its value and embodied it through its female identity.

  • Issue Year: 25/2019
  • Issue No: 100
  • Page Range: 1107-1118
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish