Woman and self-construal: Ağaoğlu, Burak, Soysal and Özlü

Adalet Ağaoğlu, Sevim Burak, Sevgi Soysal and Tezer Özlü, who construct a fictional self in their works based on their true selves, are among the writers who grew up with values in the early years of the Republic and focused on women's issues in their writings. Identity acquisition processes of these names who were their contemporaries, their gender roles, their attitudes towards social and political events and reflections of these positions in the texts, their questioning of all areas where masculine identity is reflected were analyzed as well as the phases of the process of the woman identity until the 1980s, which was seen as the symbol of modernism since the first years of the Republic, was looked through a position between fiction and reality. In this study, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Sevim Burak, Sevgi Soysal and Tezer Özlü's works which came into prominence with their autobiographical aspects, were selected and "self-construal" was examined in women writers upon their selected works. The parallels between own "self" of the women writers and "self" of their woman characters were based on an autobiographical reading, the self-realization stages of the writers were evaluated upon the "fictional self". Keywords: Adalet Ağaoğlu, Sevim Burak, Sevgi Soysal, Tezer Özlü, Woman literature, Self, Autobiography, Self-realization. Number of Pages: X+200. Thesis Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Seyit Battal UĞURLU