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Refik Halit Karay ın "Yatık Emine"sine Gayri İnsanileştirme Olgusu Çerçevesinde Bir Bakış

2019; Volume: 9; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.13114/mjh.2019.503

2148-144X

Zeynep Tek, Emine Yücel,

Media Discourse and Social Analysis

Aside from our ostensible similarities and differences, we share a common essence with all groups in society-our humanness.Uniting all the different peoples under the umbrella of our common humanity has the potential to demolish the thick walls between us and the other.However, a quick look at society, shows that humanity is not ascribed to certain people or groups, and those people are categorically omitted from humanness.This phenomenon is termed dehumanization, and it deepens the social distance between the dehumanizer and those who are dehumanized.Consequently, a person who attributes greater humanness to oneself, claims superiority over the dehumanized others, can totally ignore them, and justify all kinds of inhumane treatment against them.Revolving around the story of a prostitute, "Yatık Emine" (1918) by Refik Halit Karay (1888Karay ( -1965) ) sheds light upon the practice of dehumanization and its tragic consequences in a fictional ground.Relatedly, the current article examines how and for what reasons Emine has been dehumanized by both governmental representatives and the villagers (women and men).Additionally, how Emine positions herself as a human being is also considered with regards to her personality, her reactions / unresponsiveness in certain situations, and her struggle for survival.