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词条 Erendiz Atasü
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Literary career

  3. Works

  4. Translated works

  5. Interpretations

  6. Ideas on women's literature

  7. References

  8. External links

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Erendiz Atasü (born 1947) is a Turkish feminist author, notable for her novels, short stories and essays; also a previous academic.

Early life

Born in Ankara in 1947, as the only child of mathematician Faik Sayron and English literature instructor Hadiye Sayron, she was educated in Ankara College and the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara University, where she continued as a doctorate student (ph.D in 1974) and subsequently became a professor of pharmacognosy (1988), and taught until her early retirement in 1997. Since then she has been a freelance writer. The year she spent at London University in the early 1970s as a British Council scholar was crucial in the process of her transformation into a literary figure. She later declared that during that year she thought a lot about the complexities of the positions of women in Western and Middle Eastern societies respectively.

Literary career

Erendiz Atasü started writing in 1972 in London, but was in no hurry of publishing. Her first short story collection Kadınlar da Vardır (Women also Exist) appeared in 1983 after receiving the "Akademi Kitabevi" award. Four more short story collections were published up to 1995, when her first and acclaimed novel Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain)—outwardly a family history—in which she discusses the endeavour and the attainments of the Republican revolution, as well as its shortcomings from the standpoints of women, appeared. A modernist in her themes and messages, she likes to experiment with literary genres, bordering on postmodernist styles. Up to now she has published six novels, eight collections of short stories, and seven collections of essays. Especially in her essays she is an advocate of women's rights and secular society. She also publishes essays of literary criticism. She has won various prestigious awards of Turkish literary circles.

Works

  • Kadınlar da Vardır (Women also Exist) short stories 1983
  • Lanetliler (The Damned) short stories 1985
  • Dullara Yas Yakışır (Mourning Becomes the Widow) short stories 1988
  • Onunla Güzeldim (Beautiful with Him) short stories 1991
  • Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain) novel 1995
  • Taş Üstüne Gül Oyması (Roses Engraved in Marble) short stories 1997
  • Uçu (Evanesence) short stories 1998
  • Gençliğin O yakıcı Mevsimi (That Scorching Season of Youth) novel 1999
  • Benim Yazarlarım (My Writers) literary criticism 1999
  • Kadınlığım, Yazarlığım, Yurdum (My Womanhood, Authorship and My Country) essays, 2000
  • Bir Yaşdönümü Rüyası (A Midlife Dream) novel 2002
  • İmgelerin İzi (Imprints of Images) essays 2003
  • Kavram ve Slogan (Concept and Slogan) essays 2004
  • Açıkoturumlar Çağı (The Age of Open Debate) novel 2006
  • İncir Ağacının Ölümü (Death of a Fig Tree) short stories 2008
  • Düşünce Sefaletinin Kıskacında (In the Trap of Misereable Thinking) essays 2008
  • Bedenle Bilinç Arasındaki Uzaklık (The Distance Between Body and Mind) essays 2009
  • Hayatın En Mutulu An'ı (The Happiest Moment of Life) short stories 2010
  • Güneş Saygılı'nın Gerçek Yaşamı (The Real Life of Güneş Saygılı) novel 2011
  • Yıllar Geçerken Hayat ve Roman (Life and Novel as Years Pass By) essays 2013
  • Dün ve Ferda (Yesterday and Ferda) novel 2013

Translated works

  • The Other Side of the Mountain trans. by Erendiz Atasü and Elizabeth Maslen Milet Ld, London 2000
  • Das Lied des Meeres trans. to German by Christel Schütte, Literaturca, Frankfurt 2004
  • On Eipostahn Klimakthrio trans. to Greek by Anthi Karra, Dardanos, Athens 2005
  • A Midlife Dream trans. by Erendiz Atasü and Alvin Parmer, Milet Publishing, Sussex, 2013
Various short stories of Erendiz Atasü have been included in the below anthologies:
  • Aufbruch aus dem Schweigen, ed. by H. Hegghard and Ü. Güney, Buntbuch, Hamburg, 1984
  • Stemmen uit de Schaduw, ed. By D.Poppinga, J. de Bakker R. Van Leeuwen, Het Wereldvenster, 1986
  • Twenty Stories by Turkish Women Writers, trans by Nilüfer M. Reddy, Indiana University Press, 1988
  • Zeit-genössische Türkische Erzahlungen, trans. and ed. By Wolfgang Riemann, dtv, Munich, 1990
  • Deux Pieces D'Or, trans. by Mustafa Yalçıner, Onur yayınlar, Ankara 1991
  • Paroles Devoilees, ed. by Nedim Gürsel, Unesco, 1993
  • Moderne Türkische Erzahlungen, trans. and ed. By Wolfgang Riemann, dtv, Munich, 2004
  • Liebe, Lügen und Gespenster, ed. by B. Sagaster, Unionverlag, Zurich, 2006
  • Storie d'aria, d'terra, d'acqua e di fuoco, ed. By E. Chiavetta and S. Fernandez, Rubbettino, 2007
  • Zgodbe iz Turcıje, ed. Feridun Andaç, Sodobnost International, Ljubljana, 2008
  • Alles Blaue, Alles Grüne Dieser Welt, trans. and ed. By Beatrix Caner, dtv, Munich 2008
  • A Contemporary Turkish Short Fiction Vol I, ed. by Suat Karantay, Nettleberry LLC, St. Eden, S. Dakota, 2009
  • İstanbul Erzahlt, trans. and ed. by Wolfgang Riemann, dtv, München, 2010
  • İstanbul in Women's Stories, ed. by H. Öğüt, Milet publishing, 2012
  • Europe in Women's Short Stories from Turkey, ed. by Gültekin Emre, Milet Publishing, Sussex, 2012

Interpretations

Atasü first drew attention with her bold interpretations of women's lives and circumstances set in realistic surroundings, but expressed in poetic styles. She was a new voice among her contemporaries. Her novels are considered to witness the social changes Turkey underwent throughout the scope of twentieth century from an individualistic and feministic view. Her work has been acclaimed both as narrations of history, and as analysis of female sexuality.

Critic Yıldız Ecevit[1] claims that Erendiz Atasü constructs her novels on dichotomies; and declares The Other Side of the Mountain to be an esthetization of Kemalism; whereas Çimen Günay[2] points out that it is a feminist interpretation of the foundation of the Turkish republic. Tom Holland,[3] writing on the English translation, finds the novel "profoundly Turkish and yet also so creatively aware of European literary models" and claims that "it shows Turkey's soul". Tharaud,[4] on the other hand, takes rather a critical view of the said work, whereas others emphasise its historical themes,[5][6] and Doltaş,[7] and Batum-Menteşe[8] review it as a narration of history.

Critic Ayşegül Yüksel[9] agrees in a way with the concept of dichotomies, but she is more precise and claims that Erendiz Atasü creates literature from the tension between contradictions; and that in her work an impartial scientific observation merges with a strong vein of emotion and empathy; and that the writer feels free in resorting to whatever literary tools she finds becoming her themes.

Mine Özyurt[10] interperates Atasü's work as female novels of awakening based on the discovery of the hidden self, opposing the male bildungsroman where the protagonist merely acquires life experience.

Dilek Direnç[11] elaborates the idea of bildungsroman in Atasü's case, approaching her novels as examples of künstleroman; and drawing attention to such themes in Atasü's work as artistic creativity, and to her protagonists who experience self-discovery parallel to the act of writing. Critics observe that her work has taken a turn towards dystopia in which she merges realism with fantasy to represent the chaotic situation of Turkey which has fallen under the influence of Islamic radicalism.[12]

Papatya Alkan GENCE[13] gives a concise biography of the author and a report of how her works have been received in Dictionary of Literary Biography (vol. 373), Turkish novelists since 1960.

Ideas on women's literature

Atasü describes writing as her means of feeling alive and struggling as well as her sanctuary. According to her, humanity needs to hear life experiences of women, who have been the silenced half of humanity throughout ages, told by women's authentic words. She emphasises that the strong point of women's literature is not relating women's agonies, but taking a critical view of the influences of patriarchy on society and on the individual, especially when it functions in non-overt ways.

References

1. ^Yıldız ECEVİT, Cumhuriyet Kitap, Istanbul, 21 Dec. 1995
2. ^Çimen GÜNAY, Papirüs 39, p. 38-42, May 2000; Papirüs 40, p. 34-39, Istanbul, June 2000
3. ^Tom HOLLAND, The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 August 2000
4. ^Barry THARAUD, Edebiyat, The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, University of North Dakota (USA), 13 (1), 2002
5. ^Veronica LARSON, World View, 15(3), p.48-49, Washington, July-Sept. 2002
6. ^Elizabeth MASLEN, Cumhuriyet Kitap, 24 August 2000
7. ^Dilek DOLTAŞ, "Making History, Fiction and Theory Reconcile: An 'Aesthetic Reading' of The Other Side of The Mountain", PALA Centential Conference on 'New Pasts, Old Futures', Bern University, April 1998
8. ^Oya Batum MENTEŞE, "The History of Culture, The Culture of History", Proceedings of the Second Cultural Seminar, Ege University, İzmir 1997
9. ^Ayşegül YÜKSEL in Erendiz Atasü Edebiyatı (The Literature of Erendiz Atasü, Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on Her Work), ed. by Günseli Sönez İşçi, Can yayınları, Istanbul, 2014
10. ^Mine ÖZYURT, Edebiyat, The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, University of North Dakota (USA), 13(2), p.199-209, 2003
11. ^Dilek DİRENÇ in Erendiz Atasü Edebiyatı (The Literature of Erendiz Atasü Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on Her Work), ed. by Günseli Sönez İşçi, Can yayınları, İstanbul, 2014
12. ^Tülay AKKOYUN in Erendiz Atasü Edebiyatı (The Literature of Erendiz Atasü, Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on Her Work), ed. by Günseli Sönmez İşçi, Can yayınları, İstanbul, 2014
13. ^Papatya Alkan GENCE in Dictionary of Literary Biography (vol. 373), Turkish novelists since 1960, ed. by B. Alkan, Ç. Günay-Erkol, Gale Carnage, New York, 2013

External links

  • {{official website|http://www.erendizatasu.com/}}
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