Fictionalizing a Woman's Unseen Life:
Ayşe Leman Karaosmanoğlu
Understanding Early Turkish Women's Identity and Created Female Dream through
An Ambassadress' Private Archive
History is a
kind of rumor mill and historians are usually known as the gossipers of
archives. Above all, if the matter is an
unclear woman’s private archive, how can a historian resist changing such bias?
This book is a little effort to understand the invisible female side of Turkish
society during its cultural alteration period. A. Leman Karaosmanoğlu who was
the shadowy member of a well-known family created by the world of her male
relatives, endeavored to protect her family’s reminiscence like an archivist.
However, how a researcher can penetrate into this privacy and her female
individuality? If we evaluate Leman Hanım as a historical subject, how much can
we put her own separate individuality into history? Within the chaotic
modification of society, she seems to be an ‘independent but created model.’ In that way, the means of feminist biography
can be a guide for us and inevitably, the fictional nature of writing biography
can transform the biographer into her(him)self.
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