House with Wisteria'dan Mor Salkımlı Ev'e: Özçeviri yoluyla kimliğin yeniden inşasında 'muhabbet' kavramı

Self-translation, often only viewed as translating one's own work from one language to another, is a practice that many bilingual writers opt for. Rather than solely being a form of linguistic transfer towards the production of a second original, it can be considered as a more creative act of reconstructing one's personal and national identity with the inclusion of emotions and memory, especially so in the case of the self-translation of autobiographical texts. The study conceptualizes self-translation in the context of Halide Edib's House with Wisteria (2017) and Mor Salkımlı Ev (2014) as a creative process, drawing on Kyria Giorgi's framing of language and emotion as key to identity formation (2014) and Susan Bassnett's contention that self-translation is a type of translation more than duplication (2013). In order to demonstrate how muhabbet serves as both a historically placed emotion that connects personal memories with national belonging and as a personal feeling, Barbara Rosenwein's (2002) notion of "emotional communities" is also used. The thesis challenges the traditional understanding of self-translation by showing how Edib's act of self-translation becomes a tool for reinterpreting personal and national memory. By highlighting the emotional effort that goes into self-translation, this thesis contends that these kinds of works should be examined as complicated places of identity translation and historical reinterpretation rather than only in terms of authorship or faithfulness.