@article{2017,title={A Female Critic: Gülten Akın},abstractNode={Gülten Akın is among the first names when referring to a female poet in Turkish literature. Generally, Gülten Akın is questioned and examined within the frame of women’s literature, as a female poet, with her socialist-realistic attitude, with her original verses and texts of art, with her perspective on women’s studies, with her position in II. Yeni and with her contributions to the Turkish literature canon. In this study, Gülten Akın’s criticism will try to illuminated. “Şiir Üzerine Notlar” and “Şiiri Düzde Kuşatmak” are the two main texts which examined in this study. On the basis of these texts, Gülten Akın’s viewpoint about poetry, art, poets who pioneers and contemporaries of her and their poems will be questioned. The criticism in these texts will complete Gülten Akın’s portrait as an artist and introduce the theoric background which her poems is build on besides contributing to the science and art of literature. It will be further examined whether the voice of the women alleged to exist in fictional texts is in Gülten Akın’s critical texts. Gülten Akın’s literary contributions are not just are texts they also include constructive criticism about poetry and art. For that reason Gülten Akın as a critic and her contrabutions to criticism will tried to illuminated and the woman’s voice in her critic texts will tried to be heard and told.},author={Ürün ŞEN SÖNMEZ},year={2017},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}