Abstract
Radikal bir kadın figürü ve
tartışmalı bir edebi karakter olarak Yeni
Kadın, ondokuzuncu yüzyıl sonunda İngiltere'de feminist kadınlar tarafından
yazılmış eserlerde ortaya çıktı. Kısa hikaye, yeni kadınlığın temsili ve
görüşlerini ifade etmesi için hem içerik hem de biçim açısından uygun bir
türdü. Yeni Kadın’ın öyküleri, sigara
içme alışkanlıkları, erkeksi duruşları ve davranışları ile güçlü feminist
argümanlarıyla özdeşleşmiş çok sayıda karakteri canlandırdı. Bu makale, Yeni Kadın’ın yaratılmasında sanatsal
yaratıcılık, sözde erkeksiliğin sergilenmesi, kadın hakları hakkındaki ifade
and davranış özgürlüğü ile ortaya çıkan anlamları tanımlamaya çalışmaktadır. Bu
yazıda incelenen eserler, kadınlar tarafından yazılmış kısa öykülerin temsili
bir derlemesini içeren, Elaine Showalter’un Daughters
of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle başlıklı kitabından
seçilmiştir. Bu seçimde, kitapta bulunan kısa hikaye tercihilerinin, kadın özgürlükleri ve kişisel mücadeleleri konusunda, hangi yönlerden ortak bir söylem yaratıldığını belirlemek önemli olmuştur.
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Abstract
The New Woman as a radical female
figure and a controversial literary construct appeared in the works of fin-de-siècle feminist authors in
Britain. Short story was a suitable form for the New Woman to represent new
femininity and express her opinions both in content and form. Her short stories
portrayed a large body of female characters that could be identified with her
smoking habits, masculine outfits and manners as well as strong feminist
arguments. This paper attempts to identify what
the possible meanings are engendered by the constructions of new femininity and
her unconventional personalities that promote women’s artistic creativity,
performance of pseudo-masculinity as well as free act and speech for gender
equality. The stories examined in this paper have been selected from Elaine
Showalter’s book entitled Daughters of
Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle, which includes a representative
selection of short stories written by female writers. In this selection, it has
also been important to determine in what ways the collection of short stories
in this edition offered a common discourse about these women’s stance over the
issue of female liberties and their personal struggle in their private lives.
References
- Ardis, Ann L. (1990). New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism. London: Rutgers University Press.
- Chopin, K. (1993). An Egyptian Cigarette. In Showalter, E. (Ed.).Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siecle. (pp. 1-5). London: Virago Press.
- Cross, V. (1993). Theodora: a Fragment. In Showalter, E. (Ed.). Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siecle. (pp. 6-37). London: Virago Press.
- Fletcher, I. (Ed.). (1979). Decadence and the 1890s. London: Edward Arnold Publishers.
- Gardiner, J. (Ed.). (1993). The New Woman. London: Collins and Brown Publishing.
- Hanson, C. (1996). The Lifted Veil: Women and Short Stories in the 1880s and 1890s. The Year Book of English Studies. 31, pp. 135-142.
- Heilmann, A. (2000). New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism. London: Macmillan Press.
- Mew, C. A White Night (1903). In Showalter, E. (Ed.). Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siecle. (pp. 118-138). London: Virago Press.
- “Primum Vivere, Deine Philosophar: First one must live, then one may philosophize”. Punch. 1905.
- Pykett, L. (Ed.). (1996). Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions. Essex: Longman Addison Wesley.
- Schreiner, O. (1988). Letter to Mary Roberts (1889). Rive R. (Ed.), Olive Schreiner: Letters. London: Oxford University Press.
- Shaw, M. and Randolph, L. (2007). New Woman Writers of the Late Nineteenth Century. Devon: Northcote.
- Showalter, E. (Ed.). (1993). Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle. London: Virago Press.
- Showalter, E. (1990). Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle. London: Virago Press.
- Woods, Marianne B. (2009). The New Woman in Print and Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography. London: McFarland & Company Publishers.
Details
| Subjects | Creative Arts and Writing |
|---|---|
| Journal Section | Literature |
| Authors | |
| Publication Date | October 28, 2016 |
| Submission Date | November 11, 2016 |
| Acceptance Date | October 8, 2016 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2016 Volume: 15 Issue: 4 |
