Özet:

At the beginning of the 20th century in Ottoman, the social gender was formed by nationalist views. The most obvious examples of this can be observed in the literary production of the time – especially in the works written in the style of the novel. One of the writers in this period who wrote and emerged in the national literature canon is Peyami Safa. Peyami Safa’s novel “The So-called Girls” (1925) provides important data on how nationalist morality builds the female identity. This study aims to explore the role of desire and body in the construction of female identities in the novel. In the canonical texts in which nationalist opinions are found, it is noted that the bodies and sexualities of the self-sufficient female heroes, who often live for their personal pleasures that do not care for social benefit, are presented. But in the so-called Girls novel there is a narrative that the ideal woman, which possesses nationalist values, is also given the benefit from the objectivization of the eril desire. From here, this study first focused on the physicality of the ideal woman. The family and the homeland careful "iffet" timsali Mebrure's physical attractiveness has solved passages. These passages, which are taken from the Latin translation of the novel, suggest that the sexuality of the national female identity is not hidden. Secondly, the nationalist speech has been addressed to how the female representations represented by the nationalistic speech. The negative female character in the novel has been questioned whether Nevin would not match the femme fatale model in European literature. The novel reveals that the nationalist view in the form of presentation of the daily life practices of the other types of self-determined women referred to as "the so-called girls" has evolved to the orientalism. Finally, when the female identity remaining between the ideal and the negative returns to the national essence, the metafor of the disease is studied.

Özet:

At the beginning of the 20th century, gender in the Ottoman Empire was shaped by nationalist views. The most obvious examples of this can be observed in the literary production of the period, especially in the novels. Peyami Safa also writes in this period, and becomes one of the prominent writers of the nationalist literature canon. Peyami Safa's novel Sözde Kızlar (1925) presents significant donnee for analzing how the nationalist morality constructs the women's identity. The aim of this study is to examine the role of desire and body in the construction of women's identities in this novel. In the canonical texts, where nationalist views take place, generally it is seen that the body of women who doesn’t have any social concerns but only cares about her individual gratification is exhibited. However, in the novel Sözde Kızlar, there is a narrative that the ideal woman who has nationalist values also got her share of the objectification of masculine desire. Thus, in this study primarily the corporealness of the ideal woman is mentioned. And from this point of view, the passages that highlighted the bodily attraction of Mebrure who cares about the family and the homeland as a “chastity” symbol are analizyed. These passages, which were excluded from the Latin script of the novel, make us to think the sexuality of the national female identity is not hidden. Secondly, it has been touched on how the representations of women who are marginalized by nationalist discourse can be described. It was also questioned whether the negative female character Nevin in the novel would match the “femme fatale” model in European literature. In addition to this, it has been revealed that the nationalist view has evolved into orientalism in the presentation of daily life practices of other marginalized women called “pseudo girls” in the novel. Finally, the highlighted disease metaphor has been examined as an instrument for helping the woman who is between ideal and the negative to return to the national essence.

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