The Issue Of Woman-Subject-IdentityAs An Attempt Towards Self-Representation Of Gender Naira Hambardzumyan

Abstract

The aim of the research is to examine the features of woman-subject’s [15, p. 900] self-representation, as well as the identification of the gender peculiarities of women’s literature in the poems of female authors who lived and worked in the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the 19th century. In the present study the poems are analysed in terms of the gender stereotypes of femininity and masculinity. The actuality of the paper is conditioned by the attempt and analysis of the subjective manifestations of consciousness of female authors and the problem of woman - subject - identity as a presence of writing. Such kind of analysis has been attempted for the first time. Generalizing the binary gender manifestations of femininity and masculinity, we notice that they are revealed through aesthetic images, are peculiar to the consciousness of female authors and are expressed through the poetics of their works. Therefore, these texts were viewed from two perspectives: a. expression of gender-related world-image, b. presentation of a definite gender-related problem. Summarizing the study scientifically and theoretically, it should be noted that in the Ottoman Empire female discourse in various literary genres is revealed through structural and paradigmatic specific ethnic elements, therefore, a serious study of the poetics and typology of women’s writings with new methodological principles is required.