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SELCUK UNIVERSITESI EDEBIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS, pp.53-72, 2024 (ESCI)
We are focusing on Turkish early republican period literature, specifically works by Talip Apayd & imath;n, Aziz Nesin ve Fahri Erdin & ccedil;, to examine the status of village women during industrialization of agriculture. During this period, Mahmut Makal's text called Bizim K & ouml;y [Our Village] is seen as a threshold in terms of defining "Village Literature" within Turkish literature. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, with some trends such as the Marshall Plan in the political orbit of the Republic of Turkey, the change of methods in agriculture, the spread of mechanization in agriculture, the change of power, the village, the worldview of the villagers, the change in the situation of the villagers, attracted the attention of Turkish writers/intellectuals and caused it to turn in this direction. The discourse that began with Mahmut Makal continued with many writers/intellectuals such as Samim Kocag & ouml;z, Talip Apayd & imath;n, Abbas Sayar, Fakir Baykurt, Ya & scedil;ar Kemal, Orhan Kemal, and Kemal Tahir. Our study concentrates on the introduction of technology, spotlighting Turkish village women during this early period of industrialization of agriculture with the introduction of tractors. The ongoing discussions in gender studies, about women's participation in economic and social village life, concentrate on women's participation in production, and wages of women's work. Yet, while the period's literature and the authors' viewpoints display the tumultuous change the countryside was witnessing, village women remained subjects for the village male hegemony and overall patriarchy.