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- Title
Bakmak Ama Görmemek: Türkiye'de Kadın Yazarların Profili.
- Authors
Aksoy, S. Elif; Günay.-Erkol, Çimen
- Abstract
This article is a product of a research project which, within the scope of the sociology of literature, aims to unravel the profile of women writers in Turkey. The educational status of women writers, their occupation, their father's occupation, the genres to which they contribute their foreign language abilities and the distribution of this data over the years are examined. Despite their shortcomings in giving a thorough understanding of social and cultural processes, quantitative analyses, they nevertheless, can play a crucial role in problematizing the established judgments and often poorly scrutinized assumptions which serve as the canon of the field which is framed as "women's literature". For instance, to see how certain statistical data has changed over the years, can shed light on previously neglected phenomena about the literary production of women writers. Statistical distributions not only provide a panorama but also give a perspective about the institutionalization and commodification of literature and its transfer to new generations and different cultures. For example, comparisons of place of birth and place of residence of women writers help us to identify the cities which are the country's literary centers. The distribution of genres and the variation of this distribution over the years, help us to understand the dynamics of gender in literature and the historical development of these dynamics. This article evaluates statistical data, opens a discussion on the factors affecting the visibility of women's literary tradition, and points to the inaccuracy of forming the established information on literature on a men-only basis.
- Subjects
TURKEY; TURKISH literature; AUTHOR readings; WOMEN authors; SOCIOLOGY
- Publication
Kadın/Woman 2000, 2012, Vol 13, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
1302-9916
- Publication type
Article