Abstract
THE MEMORY OF A SHABBY: WOMEN IN SALIME SERVET SEYFI'S NOVEL
Salime Servet Seyfi (b.1868-d.1944), one of the women writers of the Second Constitutional Era, has two published works other than her writings, poems and stories in periodicals. The author, who pays special attention to the issue of women and women's rights in his prose, as in his novel Bir Hatıra-i Pejmürde (1329), evaluates the subject according to the conditions and values of the society in which he lives. The author, who thinks that the primary duty of women is motherhood, tells about the need of the society for good mothers in his newspaper and magazine articles. In Bir Hatıra-i Pejmürde novel, he shows the place of women in society and family with the stories of different mother types. These mothers carry different aspects of the mother archetype determined by Carl Gustav Jung. Among these women, in whom the positive and negative characteristics of motherhood are manifested, the evil and cruel 'femme fatale' represents the innocent, oppressed and good 'victim type'. In the study, before the novel Bir Hatıra-i Pejmürde is discussed according to the characteristics of female types, it is evaluated how the author deals with the issue of women's rights in the series titled “from the femininity case”, published in Şehbal, and the views reflected on the novel from these articles are revealed. While analyzing the types of women that shape the structural elements and content level of the novel, it has been tried to examine the manifestation of the positive and negative features of the mother archetype in fictional persons.
Keywords
Salime Servet, Bir Hatıra-i Pejmürde, ‘femme fatale’, ‘victim woman type’, ‘terrible mother’, ‘mothe
