Kuzu Kadınlar Aslan Kadınlara Karşı

Year 2018, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 332 - 340, 01.01.2018

Elif Güvendi Yalçın , Betül Özcan Dost

Abstract

Angela Carter’ın eserlerinde karşımıza iki kadın türü ortaya çıkıyor. İlki kukla vari karakterinden, toplum tarafından baskılanmasından ve bir birey olarak hareket edebilme kabiliyeti olmamasından ötürü ‘kuzu kadın’ olarak adlandırılabilir. Fakat ikincisi tam tersi yönde davranarak kendi hayatına kendisi yön verebildiği ve kendi kurallarına göre yaşadığı için ‘aslan kadın’ olarak adlandırılabilir. Türkiye gibi oldukça ataerkil bir toplumda, Carter’ın da anlatımlarında kullandığı ‘kuzu kadın’ türünün ‘aslan kadın’ türüne oranla daha fazla olduğunu söyleyebiliriz. Dahası bu ‘kuzu kadın’ tiplemeleri aynı Carter’ın romanlarındaki gibi, her yıl aşırı şiddete maruz kalıyor ve ölüyorlar. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Carter’ın belirli yazılarında ortaya çıkardığı kadın karakterlerin Türkiyede namuslarını korumak adına erkekler tarafından öldürülen kuzu kadın türleriyle olan benzerliklerini ortaya çıkarmaktır. Bu çalışma kapsamında, Carter’ın The Passion of the New Eve 1977 adlı romanı ve The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography 1979 adlı düz yazısı seçilmiştir

Keywords

kuzu kadın, aslan kadın, Carter, Türkiye, namus cinayetleri

Lamb Women vs. Lion Women

Abstract

In Angela Carter’s fictions, there are two kinds of women: the first can be named as a “lamb woman” who has a puppet like character, is repressed by the society and cannot act as an individual; however, the other one is utterly the opposite: This kind of women can be named as a “lion woman” since she takes the strings into her own hands and lives her life according to her own rules and ideas. In a very patriarchal society like Turkey, it can be stated that Carter’s lamb type of woman exists more rather than the lion type. Besides, these lamb women are subjected to extreme violence and die every year in Turkey like the passive female protagonists in Carter’s novels. The purpose of this paper is to analyse Carter’s portrayal of femininity in selected examples of writings with the aim of demonstrating the similarities between Carter’s puppet like lamb women and women in Turkey who are slaughtered by men to reclaim their honour. Within the scope of this study, Carter’s novel The Passion of the New Eve 1977 and her nonfiction The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography 1979 were chosen

Keywords

lamb woman, lion woman, Carter, Turkey, honour crimes

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