@article{2012,title={A Research on Woman Identity in Samiha Ayverdi’s Novel “Unsunken Day”},abstractNode={Samiha Ayverdi is distinctive from many other novelists of her period in terms of looking to the woman identity. Ayverdi, who thinks her writings as an instrument to express her ideas, by not getting in to love subjects even if it is very popular among woman novelists, she recommends to her readers related to duties and responsibilities that woman should take in order to advance of the nation. She is also different from other novelists as she takes into consideration the matters of country, of youth and society and the necessities that should be done related to these problems. The author, when deals with these sorts of problems, always gives a central role to the woman and at first she points at to strengthen the spiritual and moral life of woman who raise and educate the new generations. Sufism, which surrounds the every points of Ayverdi’s life, has a central role in Ayverdi. After she meets Kenan Rıfai, who is the Sheikh of Ümm-i Ken’an Lodge, Ayverdi gives a way to her life by means of the principles of Rifa’iyya and this change is reflected to her writings. “Unsunken Day” is significiant as it is her first novel that brings up her sufism undestanding. The studying of this novel is worthwhile since it goes about sufism by a woman’s adventure “seeking”. The woman in “Unsunken Day” is defined like “intellectual, sufi, plain, simple, clean, miserable, flamboyant”. The author put forward sufi identity from the other identities that mentioned above, gives her intellectual qualities and advises her reader to appropriate this identity. This advice can be thought as an important suggestion that is presented by Ayverdi to the Republic regime in order to strengten the spiritual and moral life of the new generation of the Republic.},author={Mustafa Sıddık KARAGÖZ},year={2012},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}