FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC: FEMINIST NARRATIVES AND POSTCOLONIAL SUBJECTIVITIES IN TURKISH FICTION

Abstract

With an emphasis on how fiction negotiates gendered subjectivities from the late Ottoman Empire to the contemporary Turkish Republic, this article explores the development of feminist narratives within the framework of Turkish postcolonial literature. The study examines how feminist discourses subvert patriarchal norms, reinterpret national identity, and negotiate the challenges of postcolonial modernity through an analysis of contemporary Turkish novels authored by women and gender-conscious male authors. The study, through adopting theoretical qualitative framework, establishes significant perspective that Turkish fiction is a crucial location for reinventing gender and nation outside of rigid nationalist or Eurocentric feminist frameworks by fusing postcolonial feminist theory with close textual study.