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The actors of the civil environment and public feminism in the novel (The foundling of Istanbul)

Abstract

The city is considered a form of public feminism, in which the nature of the female presence is manifested in its past and present, as well as its ambitions for exclusivity and desires for excellence, thus undermining the stereotyped image of feminism with all its collective history of sin, evil, and eroticism. This is what feminist novels aspire to achieve with a desire to escape from the stressful civil environment and liberation from obstacles with a collective voice in which the female body has the uniqueness and peculiarity that enable it to create a spatial focus for a life in which women find answers to the questions of existence and the reality of their role in this existence. This study will first deal with the localization of the concepts of general feminism and the civic environment, then the application of their analogical effectiveness to the novel (The foundling of Istanbul) by Elif Shafak, through three spatial images: The first image: Finitude smallness and greatness. The second image: Eros is rather more nature than culture. The third image: The city adapts space and extent.

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