The Veil as a Literary Central Motif in Selected Works

Abstract

In this article, the veil was treated as a central theme in selected literary texts. For this purpose, autobiographical novels, youth literature and short stories were selected. All were examined for a veil motif by evaluating the perception in the individual works. In addition, the holy scriptures, the Torah, the Bible and the Koran were analyzed for veiling fundamentals. The veiling in the individual works was examined for religious backgrounds and the behavioral pattern of the respective perception was observed. During the analysis of the texts, theoretical methods such as hermeneutics, reception aesthetics, psychoanalysis and comparative studies were used. The main work of this study is Chador by Murathan Mungan, with which the remaining works have been compared. The aim of the study was to find an answer to the question of how veiling is treated in German-Turkish literature. In addition, it was examined whether the respective veiling in the works is really religious or just traditional or culturally justified.