- RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi
- Issue: 17
- Halide Edib Adıvar ve Lady Augusta Gregory'nin cinsiyet, dil ve anti-emperyalizm açısından kültürel ...
Halide Edib Adıvar ve Lady Augusta Gregory'nin cinsiyet, dil ve anti-emperyalizm açısından kültürel milliyetçiliği
Authors : Neslihan G. ALBAY
Pages : 469-494
Doi:10.29000/rumelide.657926
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Publication Date : 2019-12-21
Article Type : Research
Abstract :This article demonstrates how the anti-imperial perspectives of Lady Gregory and Halide Edib shaped their sense of national identity, illustrates the ways in which they took a critical stance against British colonialism and emphasizes how their subjective elaborations and interrogations of anti-colonial nationalisms in other countries influenced their sense of "nationhood.” Accordingly, I expose the similar nationalist ideals of anti-imperialist social reformers who were contemporaries of Halide Edib Adıvar and Lady Augusta Gregory, with a focus on maintaining national values and traditions as part of resistance against cultural imperialism. The transnational encounters and exchanges of Gregory and Adıvar developed their appreciation of nationalism along with a viewpoint shaped by international anti-imperialism. The article analyses the components of national identity such as gender, language, and transnational exchanges by showing how they shaped the nationalist ideas of Lady Gregory and Halide Edib. This article seeks answers to the questions of what Halide Edib and Lady Gregory contributed to the debates of nation building through cultural and literary revival, how their changing political ideas were influenced by international events and particularly transnational encounters, and what their influences were on the creation of a new identity for women.Keywords : Feminist, anti-imperialist, social-reformer, nation-state, cultural, nationalism, identity, gender, language