@article{2016,title={AMBIVALENT LIVING QUARTERS OF ‘DELİ ZAMANLAR’: CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE NEW WOMAN IN LIMBO},abstractNode={Sevinç Çokum’s novel Deli Zamanlar, was published in 2000. While picturing social after ‘May the 27th, it evaluates concepts like the relationship of the modern with masculine domination and traditions and limits of the woman’s will and freedom. Events are conveyed through the narrator and the main character, who is a young, female university student are focused on her own and her best friend Aypare’s life. In the novel, the narrator and Aypare represent well-educated, party member characters who try to live their lifes on their own will. Around the axis of difficult and traumatic experiences of them and the society they make inroads into the consciousness of the new woman type. This consciousness is an ambivalent living quarter, which forces traditional women to remain in limbo, who slog on breaking with the past. While this hesitant existence is presented to the reader, portaraits and stories of robust women of the past, from whom the new woman take stregth are not neglected either. Moreover, the modern cocotte, which remaine in the shop window of evolution and masculine domination who grabs women by the throat and tries to make them object to men are criticised, as well. Thus, the idea of changing, which the narrator both desires and fears from is conveyed to the reader on several aspects. In the study, more independent and strong-willed women will be tried to be depicted and social and sexist references of cultural subconscious, which disrupts endeavour for changing will be tried to be established. The relationship of this consciousness with hegemonic masculinity and cultural retention will be tried to be explained and inured states of traditional gender roles will be discussed within the framework of the novel’s fiction.},author={Ferda ZAMBAK},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}