Abstract
POWER RELATIONS AND SILENT EXPRESSION OF WOMAN IN THE WOMAN TO BE HANGED AND THE PIGEON FLYING LOW NOVELS
The Woman to be Hanged is the third novel which was published by Pınar Kür in 1979. In this chain of events based on a murder in the mansion, the story of Melek, who is confined to house and becomes an object to violence and abuse at a young age, is told by the perspective of a female writer. On the other hand, The Pigeon Flying Low, which was published in 1980, a year after the publication of The Woman to be Hanged, is the sixth novel by Tarık Dursun K.. What Menekşe goes through as a woman who is kidnapped from the tent of her Yuruk family and abused while being taken from one place to another for two months is narrated by the perspective of a male writer this time. While power relations, silent discourse of victim woman, well-meant but useless efforts of young men, search for justice, dilemma of people living under the shadow of past are presented by the writers’ unique perspectives, a social trauma is revealed with all aspects in these two novels published one year apart. In this study, two novels these two writers dealing with a similar theme are going to be compared based on perspective of feminist literary criticism and occasional psychoanalysis.
Keywords
The Woman to be Hanged, The Pigeon Flying Low, power relations, silent expression of woman, sexual a