Women, Marriage, and Borders: A Comparative View of Nazan Bekiroglu’s Mücellâ and Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate
Women have continued to be dealt with from different perspectives in literature. Women are at the base of the family structure and come to the fore as a motif enriched through stories knitted with the realities of life. From history to the present, the social structure tended to positively and negat...
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| Language: | deu |
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Istanbul University Press
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/902FCD558AAE4FF286B02BEDB2DE115B |
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| Summary: | Women have continued to be dealt with from different perspectives in literature. Women are at the base of the family structure and come to the fore as a motif enriched through stories knitted with the realities of life. From history to the present, the social structure tended to positively and negatively identify women’s status. For this reason, women have been examined based on many aspects of literature, especially from a feminist perspective. Women are sometimes depicted as individuals, heroes, wives, mothers, or goddesses and have inspired world literature. This study will discussfemale characters through novels from different cultures. It will analyze Nazan Bekiroğlu’s (2015) Mücellâ and Laura Esquivel’s (1989) Like Water for Chocolate using a comparative approach to the female characters who are oppressed by society and their mothers and to the deep narratives built around these characters. These two works focus on the role of marriage that is assigned to women from different perspectives. During the comparison, the article will discuss issues such as the motherdaughter relationship, social oppression against women, and women’s defense mechanisms. These two works selected from Turkish and Mexican literature will be examined with a socialist feminist literary criticism by considering the differences and similarities between these two cultures. In addition, the article will discuss how motifs such as mother, love, marriage, dowry, and kitchen create different worlds in related works and make inferences in line with this. |
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| ISSN: | 2602-2117 |