Edebi Eleştiri Dergisi

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Culture and literature are two elements that are not only interrelated but also support one another. The culture, which meets everything that society reveals materially and spiritually, is transferred to the next generations and maintained. Literary texts are one of the ways in which this transfer is carried out. Although literary texts are fictional, they are a panorama of the period in which they were written or of the society they emerged from. In literary texts, the author sometimes directly gives the cultural texture of the society or sometimes hides it between the lines, and the reader encounters the cultural traces of the society from which the text originated in the background of the text. This study sheds light on the reflection of some elements of the social texture on the stories of Sema Kaygusuz, one of the contemporary novelists and story writers from Turkey. Sema Kaygusuz sometimes uses them as a theme while conveying many elements of the traditions, world of belief, lifestyle and rituals of the society between the lines of her stories. Besides, she presents them to the reader as a background of the fictionalized narrative. It is possible to find many elements of the social texture in almost all of these stories.