Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine the situation of woman and the practices of arranged marriage in Tanizaki's novel The Makioka Sisters, and Kerime Nadir's the Bridal Girl, one of the early Republican period writers of Turkish literature. It is understood that these two works, which can be defined as Women's novels written in the same period, but in different cultural contexts, share similar codes in terms of their approach to the institution of marriage and the expectations of the society from female characters. While Makioka Sisters portrays the arranged marriage practices under the effect of the Household system of the Meiji period, the Bridal Girl discusses the Turkish woman who tries to liberalize in the early Republican period, and the arranged marriage practices of the upper class at that time. The study focuses on the problem of social opression of women subjected to male domination and the issues of arranged marriage practices in the novels, and to achieve this, a comparative analysis method is adopted in the study. By the comparison of both novels, this study attempts to bring a new perspective to Turkish and Japanese comparative literature studies and Japanese literature studies on Tanizaki respectively.

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