Kıbrıs Türk Çocuk Edebiyatı ve Çağdaş Kadın Yazarlar

Abstract

The studies of children's literature are among the literary studies which have an important place today. These artifacts, which provide great contributions to the development of children in the mother tongue, the development of creativity, the transfer of cultural values and the development of children in a cognitive-emotional sense, have become one of the important research areas. When examining these studies, it is important to consider not only the studies that satisfy the need for entertainment but also help them to understand the meaning of life at the same time. Many studies of this kind have been given in the world, in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and they continue to be given. This study will examine contemporary women writers and studies in the field of children's literature in TRNC. When we look at the writers of contemporary children's literature, it is striking that most names in this field are female. In the studies of female authors, we usually see the sensitivity of being a woman in society and the woman's motherly role. Tales, lullabies, riddles, short stories, and novels from children's literature works provide great contributions to children both cognitively and emotionally. Women who created such studies often tried to give these in a different dimension with the maternal instinct they carry. Children's literature is a field that has not been adequately studied in the Turkish Cypriot literature. The educational contribution of these texts will be examined with examples and the children's world will be revealed through the eyes of female authors. Thus, the aim of this study is to find contemporary Turkish Cypriot women writers’ writing on children literature according to story mapping method.