Türkiye'de İslami Romanlarda Kadın Kimliği (1980-2000): Feminist Bir Yaklaşım

Abstract

In this thesis, it is tried to reveal the understanding of women in Islamic novels, the first editions of which were published between 1980 and 2000. Women's life is among the topics that always keep its place on the agenda in the development of Turkish modernization. Similarly, Turkish novel stands out as a literary genre that includes various social/political tendencies about women's life. Turkish novelists, who approach the subject of women in line with their social and political preferences, have made an effort to convey the views they have adopted to large audiences through the works they have written. Islamic novels also consist of texts that carry the basic social and political theses of Islamism to the field of literature. Examining the understanding of women in Islamic novels will lead researchers to the same conclusions as examining the main theses of Islamism on women. Feminist literary criticism, on the other hand, stands out as a highly functional method in the effort to comprehend the understanding of women in Islamic novels. The novels, which constitute the sample of the study, are examined within the framework of the following four sub-titles with qualitative content analysis, which is one of the two methods of the thesis: Woman with her Appearance: Dressing Style of the Ideal (Religious) Woman, Character of the Ideal (Religious) Woman: Angel woman – Beast woman, Ideal Woman and Family: Mothers Raising Religious Generations, Women as the Guarantee of Society: Responsible Religious Women. The main claim put forward in the thesis is that Islamic novels, which carry the theses of Islamism to the field of literature, are texts that reinforce collectivist and patriarchal views on women. Compared to male novelists, it has been determined that female Islamic novelists try to highlight the restricted/oppressed lives of female novel characters who live under patriarchal social conditions, in line with individualistic approaches within the framework of Islamic female identity. However, Islamism continues to be the main factor that determines the boundaries of both male and female writers' approaches to the issue of women within collectivism.