터키 여성의 두 번 죽기: 엘리프 샤팍의 [명예]

Abstract

This paper introduces the Turkish Muslim female writer Elif Shafak unfamiliar in Korea and reads her ninth novel Honour as an ecological feminist text. Set in Turkey and Britain, Honour, the Turkish-Kurdian immigrant family narration, issues the sexist and oppressive practice of “honor killing,”still in Islamic society, as a multicultural issue in Western society. The novel, with its author-specific formal techniques, recreates the uncomfortable topical elements of Islamic cultural regulation, gender roles, suicide, infidelity, gambling and honor killings from various angles, realistically and sometimes abstractly. In other words, with formal techniques such as realistic or unrealistic elements, dreamy memories and illusions, linguistic imagination and magical realism, the novel demonstrates the resistance consciousness to the male-centered society and cultural norms and the dilemma and growth pain of various characters living on the boundaries between tradition and modernity. From the ecological feminist perspective, this paper analyzes the novel in terms of the destructive relationship between muslim men and women trapped in patriarchal system with the growth of muslim immigrant children, focusing on the tragic event of honor killing. And it examines the cyclical life and death of muslim twin sisters in dynamic space of Turkey and Britain separated ethnical, culturally, racially, politically and economically. Especially, by expanding the concept of Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, the paper enhances the value of global solidarity based on the diversity and interconnection between women, between women and men, and between humans and other living things, beyond the regional, cultural and religious differences through reading the unfamiliar Muslim work in unfamiliar areas.