Speaking of Beki Luiza Bahar: A Jewish Woman Playwright in Turkey & Negotiating an Ambiguous Identity in the Public Sphere

Verda HABİF

doi:https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1004225

Makale detayları

Speaking of Beki Luiza Bahar: A Jewish Woman Playwright in Turkey & Negotiating an Ambiguous Identity in the Public Sphere

Yazarlar:

Verda HABİF

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Aşama sunumları

Dergi:

Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 33, pp.77-97

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000804370

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-4636

pISSN:

1303-8605

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1004225

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Özet:

 


This article focuses on Beki Luiza Bahar, the first published Turkish-Jewish woman playwright. Her oeuvre includes prose, poetry, memoir and a wide spectrum of fictional and non-fictional works. To better grasp the author’s writing praxis and prove how the merging of fiction, biography, and autobiography allows her to manage the contradictory elements of her identity, the study uses an inter-textual approach relying on both fictional and non-fictional works by the author. Beki Luiza Bahar’s works highlight how understanding, remembering, and speaking of one’s past are interwoven with selfhood and recognition in her opinion. The present analysis moves back and forth between these ideas, attempting to understand how she negotiates her minority subjectivity while writing.

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This article focuses on Beki Luiza Bahar, the first published Turkish-Jewish woman playwright. Her oeuvre includes prose, poetry, memoir and a wide spectrum of fictional and non-fictional works. To better grasp the author’s writing praxis and prove how the merging of fiction, biography, and autobiography allows her to manage the contradictory elements of her identity, the study uses an inter-textual approach relying on both fictional and non-fictional works by the author. Beki Luiza Bahar’s works highlight how understanding, remembering, and speaking of one’s past are interwoven with selfhood and recognition in her opinion. The present analysis moves back and forth between these ideas, attempting to understand how she negotiates her minority subjectivity while writing.

Makale detayları

Speaking of Beki Luiza Bahar: A Jewish Woman Playwright in Turkey & Negotiating an Ambiguous Identity in the Public Sphere

Yazarlar:

Verda HABİF

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Aşama sunumları

Dergi:

Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 33, pp.77-97

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000804370

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-4636

pISSN:

1303-8605

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1004225

Beki Luiza Bahar

Jewish woman playwright

biographical drama

minority subjectivity

identity

Sayı

Makale detayları

Speaking of Beki Luiza Bahar: A Jewish Woman Playwright in Turkey & Negotiating an Ambiguous Identity in the Public Sphere

Yazarlar: Verda HABİF

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar: Aşama sunumları

Dergi: Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 33, pp.77-97

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2021

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000804370

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2687-4636

pISSN: 1303-8605

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1004225

Beki Luiza Bahar

Jewish woman playwright

biographical drama

minority subjectivity

identity

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Verda HABİF

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Aşama sunumları

Dergi:

Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 33, pp.77-97

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000804370

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-4636

pISSN:

1303-8605

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1004225