Fictional representation of women's identity in Duygu Asena's novels

Duygu Asena, who is the one of authors who focus on social women issues is positioned with different way in 21st Century Turkish Literature. Duygu Asena, who started his literary career as journalist reached huge populace with her novels written in order to demonstrate inequality of women. It is aimed to increase awareness of readership as it's query the oppression of patriarchal via personel stories in these pieces written through feminist perspective. Duygu Asena who purposes intellectual conversion evaluated the fiction as raising awareness tool. She is accepted a cultural representative of feminism but an author from this aspect. Bringing into question the communal issues with possibilities of literary made her efficient and authentic voice in Turkish Literary. It was discussed in the context of effects communal gender inequality and patriarchal on women with Duygu Asena's six novels (Kadının Adı Yok, Aslında Aşk da Yok, Aynada Aşk Vardı, Aslında Özgürsün, Aşk Gidiyorum Demez, Paramparça), in this thesis study. Asena's novels aims to make visible structural inequalities which specify the social statue of women not only personal woman experiment. In each pieces, the oppressive mechanisms (in areas such as family, marriage, busines, relationships and individual identity construction, etc...) of the male-dominated society at different levels are questioned from a critical perspective. The internal conflicts experienced by female characters combine with external pressures to reveal the depth of gender-based injustices when Duygu Asena's narratives reveal how patriarchal ideology shapes women's lives. The female figures depicted in the author's novels are individuals who do not fit into traditional molds, often rebel against the existing order and try to build their own identities. Therefore, these works were evaluated not only as literary texts but also as cultural documents that question gender relations in Turkey. In this study, the women depicted in the novels (Kadının Adı Yok, Aslında Aşk da Yok, Aynada Aşk Vardı, Aslında Özgürsün, Aşk Gidiyorum Demez and Paramparça) by feminist author Duygu Asena will be examined in terms of the functions they fulfill within the narrative structure.