Speaking of Beki Luiza Bahar: A Jewish Woman Playwright in Turkey & Negotiating an Ambiguous Identity in the Public Sphere

This article focuses on Beki Luiza Bahar, the first published Turkish-Jewish woman playwright. Her oeuvre includes prose, poetry, memoir and a wide spectrum of fictional non-fictional works. To better grasp author’s writing praxis prove how merging fiction, biography, autobiography allows her to manage contradictory elements identity, study uses an inter-textual approach relying both works by author. Bahar’s highlight understanding, remembering, speaking one’s past are interwoven with selfhood recognition in opinion. The present analysis moves back forth between these ideas, attempting understand she negotiates minority subjectivity while writing.