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TEACHING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: DEVELOPING A COMPARATIVE ANTHOLOGY/COMPILATION OF FEMALE WRITERS

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İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi

HAYEF: Journal of Education 2004; 1: 109-121
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This study discusses female discourse as a common female experience basing on the intercultural aspects of the works of female writers and proposes a comparative technique for the compilation of female writers as an attempt to facilitate and contextualize teaching of American female writers' works in Turkey at university level in both language teaching and literature departments. Comparative compilation technique in literature teaching is a creative process where the instructor can act like an anthology writer. Basic steps of the process are the categorisation of widely used topics and the selection of sample works suitable for the sub-categories determined. This study handles female literary discourse on the bases of common reading experience and thematic content and aims at motivating the students by introducing works of American and Turkish female writers side by side. The themes and the writers used for comparison are: awakening of female gender, enlightenment of women (Kate Chopin, Adalet Ağaoğlu), the vicious circle of intellectual women, dissatisfaction and suicide (Slyv'ia Plath, Tezer Özlü, Nilgün Marmara), surreal and utopie female images (Suzette Haden-Elgin, Nazlı Eray), clash of female roles as wife/mother/woman (Joyce Carol Oates, Emily Dickinson, Erendiz Atasü), women in rural life (Nazlı Eray, Erendiz Atasü, Joyce Carol Oates)

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