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not replicas of the events themselves” (6).
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In Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture, Jens Brockmeier and
Donald Carbaugh draw attention to Bakhtin’s view of autobiographical writing and note that in
Bakhtin’s understanding, characteristics of the modern novel (“its special sense of temporality,
polyphony, and intertextuality”) are also found in “the narrative construction of a life”:
As every narrative self‐account is itself part of a life, embedded in a lived context of interaction
and communication, ambiguity and vagueness, there is always, potentially, a next and different
story to tell, as there occur different situations in which to tell it. This creates a dynamic that
keeps in view actual stories about real life with possible stories about potential life, as well as
countless combinations of them. As a consequence, life narratives, like most literary texts, can
be treated as open, without end. They are, as Bakhtin (1981) put it, “unfinalizable”, for life
always opens up more options (“real” and “fictional” ones), includes more meanings, more
identities, evokes more interpretations than even the number of all possible life stories could
express. (7‐8)
15
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 6.
16
A province in southern Turkey, located on the Mediterranean coast. The administrative capital
is Antakya (established as Antiocheia around 300 BC), and the other major city of the province is
the neighboring port town of İskenderun (founded as Alexandretta in 333 BC).
17
The city of Hatay, which had been under French Mandate since 1920, voted to join Turkey in
1938.
18
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 12.
19
A city in Turkey, located in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
20
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 150.
21
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 158‐161.
22
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 222.
23
Nazan Aksoy, in her book Kurgulanmış Kimlikler, Otobiyografi, Kadın, Cumhuriyet (Constructed
Identites: Autobiography, Women, Republic), notes that women’s autobiographies written the
late twentieth century contain life stories of women who constructed their identities within the
modernization project and took advantage of the opportunities it provided for them. Their
commitment to this project is a matter of being for them since they have earned their
professions, identities and social status through it. The establishment of the Turkish republic, its
history and ideology, and the social change it initiated are the persistent issues detected in these
life narratives (209‐12). Nazan Aksoy. Kurgulanmış Kimlikler, Otobiyografi, Kadın, Cumhuriyet.
(İstanbul: İletişim Yayıncılık, 2009).
24
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 209.
25
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 302.
26
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 219.
27
Ibid.
28
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 213.
29
There is a strong “relation between individual identity and group identification in women’s life
writing,” observes Linda H. Peterson in her book titled Traditions of Victorians Women’s
Autobiography,The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing (41).
30
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 213.
31
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 328.
32
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 327.
33
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 328.
34
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 133.
35
Ayla Kutlu. Zaman da Eskir. (İstanbul: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2006), 333.
36
Nevin Koyuncu. “Tersine Akış: Bir Özyaşam Öyküsünde Benlik İnşası.” Ayla Kutlu Edebiyatı: 1. Kadın
Yazarlar Sempozyumu Bildiriler Kitabı. (Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2012), 326.
37
Ayla Kutlu. Asi… Asi. (Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2010), 475.
38
Ayla Kutlu. Asi… Asi. (Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi, 2010), 299.
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