Water and Woman in Bilge Karasu’s Narrative

ABSTRACT: It’s not rare to come across the identification of women with the nature and water. We come across this identification in the texts from the genesis myths up to present day. As Gaston Bachelard said “all that reflects on the water consists the traces of women” (Bachelard, 2006: 45). Is the representation of nature as “mother nature” forth purpose of glorifying nature and women or the glorifying culture and men in an effort to dominatet he two? As we seek answers to this question we will touch on the fictionalization of the water in Bilge Karasu’s narrative. May be birth and death, women and men are not opposites in the texts, but water is always associated with women and women/water is always scary. It’s the fear of men who are “hungry” for and enchanted by women who can not be dominated by the nature. We will try to examine the association of water, boats, and island with birth, and the outlook of men as the spectator of this association