AN ECOFEMINIST READING OF THE TURKISH TRANSLATION OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the Turkish translation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with an ecofeminist point of view. Ecofeminism argues that feminist efforts and struggles just like nature are challenged by the patriarchal system, for that reason this male-dominated system can be seen as a threatening factor over both women and nature. The ecofeminist approach to analyses of literary texts can be tracked among the most recent studies that have been carried out latter-day. And taking ecofeminism in terms of translation studies, specifically from the point of women’s moving through different types of space constitutes the essence of this study. In this respect, the worlds of humans and their splitting as men and women, as society and nature, and as suppression and freedom in the play and their Turkish translations are studied in the study with special emphasis on the translator’s word choices. The Turkish translation of the acts adds to the ecofeminist understanding of the play by having an almost impeccable language as Shakespeare’s.