A Pen of Her Own - Women's Literature

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

In A Pen of One's Own, Nil Sakman examines in depth the women's literature of the Founding Period, which was almost ignored and excluded from the canon. In the study, which also examines the works of female writers from Western literature, how power and gender roles manifest in literature, what the complex relationship between experience and literary production means in the context of "woman writing", and the practices that make it possible for the powerful to occupy the "legitimate" and "qualified" space are examined in an interdisciplinary manner. is examined with understanding. While making an in-depth analysis of where women's literature is in this "legitimate" and "qualified" field, it not only indicates where it should be and the obstacles; It offers ways to erode the boundaries set by “male-dominated” style and literature. He achieves this especially with examples from the works of the writers of the Foundation Period.

In the Ottoman Empire, as in the West, the qualifications that “qualified” or “readable” literature should have were largely determined by a masculine mentality, that is, the criteria that constitute qualified literature are defined and constructed by the functioning of a masculine mind, perception of life and field of experience. has been made. Perceived as an otherness, a secondary being compared to men; Women and femininity, whose public existence or impact on macro-history is almost non-existent, have been largely left out of the field of experience that includes the male gender. However, the life experience of women or femininity consists, to a significant extent, of some areas of experience that are completely specific to femininity, which the male gender has never experienced and/or cannot experience.

Editor: Ayla Duru Karadağ

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 392

Size: 13.5 x 21