An Ecofeminist Reading of the Turkish Translation Of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Year 2023, Issue: 27, 319 - 336, 21.03.2023

Ayşenur İplikçi Özden

https://doi.org/10.30767/diledeara.1231065

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the Turkish translation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with an ecofeminist point of view. Ecofeminism argues that feminist efforts and struggles just like nature are challenged by the patriarchal system, for that reason this male-dominated system can be seen as a threatening factor over both women and nature. The ecofeminist approach to analyses of literary texts can be tracked among the most recent studies that have been carried out latter-day. And taking ecofeminism in terms of translation studies, specifically from the point of women’s moving through different types of space constitutes the essence of this study. In this respect, the worlds of humans and their splitting as men and women, as society and nature, and as suppression and freedom in the play and their Turkish translations are studied in the study with special emphasis on the translator’s word choices. The Turkish translation of the acts adds to the ecofeminist understanding of the play by having an almost impeccable language as Shakespeare’s.

Keywords

ekofeminizm, uzam, toplum, doğa, erkek, kadın, ecofeminism, space, society, nature, men, women

Bir Yaz Gecesi Rüyası’nin Türkçe Çevirisinin Ekofeminist Bir İncelemes

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, William Shakespeare’in Bir Yaz Gecesi Rüyası isimli eserinin Türkçe’ye çevirisini ekofeminist bir bakış açısıyla incelemektir. Ekofeminizm, feminist çaba ve uğraşılara tıpkı doğa gibi ataerkil sistem tarafından meydan okunduğunu ve bu nedenle bu erkek egemen sistemin hem kadın hem de doğa için tehdit edici bir unsur olduğunu öne sürer. Edebi metinlerin analizlerine ekofeminist bir yaklaşımla eğilmek, son zamanlarda yapılan en güncel çalışmalar arasında yerini alır. Ekofeminizmi çeviri çalışmaları konusunda özellikle kadınların farklı uzamlara hareket etmeleri açısından ele almak, bu çalışmanın özünü oluşturmaktadır. Bu bağlamda bu çalışmada, insanların dünyaları ve onların oyunda özellikle kadın ve erkek, toplum ve doğa ile baskı ve özgürlük olarak ayrılmaları ve bunların Türkçe’ye çevirileri, çevirmenin sözcük seçimlerine de vurgu yapılarak incelenmiştir. Sahnelerin Türkçe’ye çevirileri, neredeyse Shakespeare’inki kadar kusursuz bir dile sahip olması bakımından, oyunun ekofeminist bir açıyla okunabilirliğine katkı sağlamaktadır.

Keywords

ekofeminizm, uzam, toplum, doğa, erkek, kadın, ecofeminism, space, society, nature, men, women

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