Özet:

The effects of the postmodernism movement in Turkish literature first appeared in the 1970s. This trend, whose effects continued to increase in the 1980s, caught a rapid development environment after the 1990s with the presence of storytellers whose stories were dominated by postmodern understanding. Born in 1956, Sezer Ateş Ayvaz's first story book, Aynalarda Yaz, was published in 1988 and it contains many postmodern elements, making the author a prominent name among storytellers whose stories were dominated by postmodern understanding after the 1990s. Sezer Ateş Ayvaz, who contributed to Turkish literature with a total of four story books, namely Yeryüzü Taksim, Tamiris’in Gecesuçları and Küllenmiş Bir Kuşu Yakalamak, after the book Write in Mirrors, predominantly uses postmodern elements in all of her works. Sezer Ateş Ayvaz's stories are about not turning her back on the past, where modernism is in opposition; fracture and fragmentation in the whole, in time and space; By distorting and rearranging the masculine language, creating new designs and emotional values in the mind of the reader, it is postmodern with its features of benefiting from the theories of deconstruction, reception aesthetics and feminist criticism, which are the prominent theories with postmodernism. Metafiction, irony, stream of consciousness, intertextuality, perspective and pluralism provided by the diversity of the narrator, which are the uses that represent postmodern literature, are the other postmodern elements that the stories contain. The postmodern methods used by the author have very functional features that enrich the content of the stories, deepen the narrative by creating new layers of meaning, increase the thematic power, and reflect the artist's experience in different fields.