NEW TYPE OF WOMAN CHARACTER "PATRIOT-WOMAN" IN THE NOVEL BY HALIDE EDIP ADIVAR "YENI TURAN" ("NEW TURAN")

Year 2024, Volume: 26 Issue: 2, 77 - 85, 29.06.2024

Anastasiia Orlovskaia

https://doi.org/10.53372/turkoloji.1131321

Abstract

The aim of the study is a brief analysis of a new type of female image in the novel “Yeni Turan” (“New Turan”). In the novel Halide Edip tries to increase the social role of women and form the type of women who, in her opinion, will help overcome the deep crisis in all spheres of society that exists in this period in the Ottoman Empire.
In the novel "Yeni Turan" women are no longer passive contemplators of life, they are its active creators. They are reforming society, broadcasting the values ​​of "New Turan": they are actively engaged in educational activities, open schools, hospitals, provide assistance to those in need, participate on an equal basis with men in the work of the "New Turan" party. The main character of the novel is Kaya, the spiritual leader of this party. Kaya is the image of a woman, guided by the interests of the public good, that is needed to build a new state, according to Halide Edip Adıvar.
All quotations from the novel are presented in the researcher's own translation from Turkish to English.

Keywords

New Turan, New Türkiye, patriot-woman, New Ottomans

NEW TYPE OF WOMAN CHARACTER "PATRIOT-WOMAN" IN THE NOVEL BY HALIDE EDIP ADIVAR "YENI TURAN" ("NEW TURAN")

Abstract

The aim of the study is a brief analysis of a new type of female image in the novel “Yeni Turan” (“New Turan”). In the novel Halide Edip tries to increase the social role of women and form the type of women who, in her opinion, will help overcome the deep crisis in all spheres of society that exists in this period in the Ottoman Empire.
In the novel "Yeni Turan" women are no longer passive contemplators of life, they are its active creators. They are reforming society, broadcasting the values of "New Turan": they are actively engaged in educational activities, open schools, hospitals, provide assistance to those in need, participate on an equal basis with men in the work of the "New Turan" party. The main character of the novel is Kaya, the spiritual leader of this party. Kaya is the image of a woman, guided by the interests of the public good, that is needed to build a new state, according to Halide Edip Adıvar.
All quotations from the novel are presented in the researcher's own translation from Turkish to English.

Keywords

New Turan, Patriot-Woman, New Türkiye, Ottoman Empire, New Ottomans.

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