UNE MORT TRÈS DOUCE VE UNE FEMME ADLI ESERLERDE KADIN KİMLİĞİNİN TOPLUMSAL BOYUTLARI
THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF THE IDENTITY OF WOMAN IN “UNE MORT TRÈS DOUCE”AND “UNE FEMME”

Summary/Abstract: In this study, twentieth century’s two great works by women writers, Simone de Beauvoir’s “Une mort très douce” and Annie Ernaux’s “Une femme”, in which they questioned their own female identity through their familial circles, will be comparatively studied. In both works, three generations of French women (narrator, mother and grandmother) are studied by focusing on different periods in their family history, values peculiar to every period, and women’s position in society. Many similarities can be seen between both writers and their identity as women are shaped by their familial lives. The generation of the grandmother grew in a cultural and social environment in which women are disciplined with fears and strict authority and their right to education was ignored. The generation of the mother lived through a turbulent transition period in which women were in-between the traditional female roles and models of modern womanhood, but they encouraged their daughters to further education. As for the generation represented by the narrator, women rebelled against the oppression of the traditional female roles, and they strove to build an identity particular to themselves, depending on their own resources. They revealed the intricate relations between the social and individual dimensions of female identity, and put forward that the empowerment of the women in social life is about the improvement of the individual consciousness more than familial, traditional and class identities.

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