Woman revolt in the short stories of Nezihe Meriç

This study examines the position of women in selected short stories of Nezihe Meriç and argues that both Meriç's writing style and the characterization of women in her stories are forms of revolt against patriarchal norms. The introduction chapter reviews some prominent critical works on Meriç's stories and proposes a theoretical base for the thesis by juxtaposing feminist literary criticism and Julia Kristeva's concept of intimate revolt. The following two chapters provide close readings of selected short stories in this theoretical framework. While the second chapter focuses on the stories dealing with the personal dilemmas of modern women, the third chapter centers on the stories in which the socio-political conditions underlying these dilemmas can be seen. Additionally, both chapters discuss how the textualization of women's problems works by drawing attention to the narrative techniques Meriç used.