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KITAPLARDA KADIN OLMAK: CHAUCER VE ORTAÇAĞ INGILIZ EDEBIYATINDA KADIN SÖYLEMININ SORUNSALLIĞI

BEING A WOMAN IN THE BOOKS: CHAUCER AND THE PROBLEM WITH THE DISCOURSE OF WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE

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  • Turkish Studies

Publication Year:

  • 2009
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.555

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Abstract (2. Language): 
The relationship between women and literature in medieval English literature is a relationship that stresses the powerlessness of women in literature. Women find themselves represented in the books because of the wrongs they have committed and literature is often a means of creating negative images of women. Chaucer is concerned with the place of women in books and he examines in this context the role of literature and books as discursive practices. Thus particularly in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women Chaucer questions the truths literature develops about women. This paper argues that Chaucer’s questionings reveal that the patriarchal discourse of women developed by medieval English literature cannot be trusted because as a discourse it is produced by the power/knowledge that women lack. Chaucer’s treatment of the mechanics of literary representation shows that the knowledge about women is produced by a literature that serves the interests of the dominant and it produces knowledge about women who lack the power to construct or re-construct the truth promoted by literature. It is this problematic that underlies the objections of the Wife of Bath and the God of Love to the truth presented by literature about women.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Ortaçağ Ingiliz edebiyatı edebiyat ve kadın iliskisinde kadının güçsüzlüğünü vurgulayan bir edebiyattır. Kadınlar genellikle kitaplarda yaptıkları yanlıslar yüzünden yer alırlar ve bir söylem aracı olarak edebiyat kadınların olumsuz imajına katkıda bulunur. Chaucer eserlerinde kadın edebiyat iliskisini kitaplarda kadının yeri yönünden ele alır ve söylem olusturma mekanizmaları açısından kitapları ve edebiyatı sorgular. Bathlı Hatun’un Prolog’unda ve Iyi Kadınlar Destanı’nın Prolog’unda bir söylem olusturma aracı olarak edebiyatın kadınlar hakkında gelistirdiği fikirlerin doğruluğunu tartısmaya açar. Bu makale Chaucer’ın sorgulamalarına göre Ortaçağ Ingiliz edebiyatının desteklediği patriarkal kadın söyleminin doğrularına güvenilmez bir söylem olduğu tezini savunmaktadır. Edebiyatın kadınlar hakkında yaptığı tespitler her söylem gibi güç/bilgi doğrultusunda gelismistir ve toplumda güçsüz konumda olan kadınların sözünün geçmediği ve hikâyelerin yazarı olamadıkları bir edebiyat tarafından üretilmistir. Bathlı Hatun’un ve Ask Tanrısının kitaplardaki kadın tiplemelerine itirazlarının temelinde bu sorunsallık yatmaktadır
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