Abstract
Bu çalışma, Latife Tekin’in Muinar ve Margaret Atwood’un Surfacing eserlerine özgü ekoeleştirel araştırmaları ve ekofeminist diyalojileri analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu romanlar, kimlik arayışlarında önemli farkındalık değişimleri geçiren kadın karakterleri tasvir etmektedir; her iki roman da öncelikli olarak ataerkil kadın ve doğa algısının eleştirisine vurgu yapmaktadır. Bu çalışma, yazarların kadın ve çevre konusundaki duyarlılık ve kaygılarının kadın kahramanlardaki değişim aşamalarıyla nasıl ortaya çıktığına ışık tutmaktadır. Bu değişimler Elime’nin, Muinar adlı romanda pek çok kadının aklına giren Muinar’ın iç sesiyle etkileşimi ve Surfacing’de ise isimsiz bir kadının doğaya yakınlaşmasının ardından memleketine yaptığı manevi yolculuk aracılığıyla gösterilmektedir. Bu doğaya yakınlaşma sonuçta karakterlerin bağımsızlığını, kendilerine yetmelerini, baskıya karşı direnmelerini, kendilerini keşfetmelerini ve çevre bilincine sahip olmalarını da sağlar. Kadın karakterlerin ataerkil baskıyla karşılaşmalarına ve fiziksel olarak toprağa gömülmelerinin gerekliliğine odaklanan yazarlar, modernleşen ve teknolojileşen şehir yaşamının zararlı ve yıkıcı etkilerini eleştirmektedir. Doğaya yabancılaşmanın ve beden ve zihin arasındaki ayrılığın günümüz krizini beraberinde getirdiğini öne süren bu romanlar, aynı zamanda kadınların iyileşmelerini tamamlamaları ve hayatlarını tehdit eden tüm hastalıklardan kurtulmaları için dünyadaki tüm varlıklarla bütünlük sağlamaları gerektiği vurgusunu da yapmaktadır.
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References
- Atwood, M. (1972). Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart.
- Bohm, D. (2005). Wholeness and the implicate order. Routledge.
- Burridge, T. (2015). Surfacing by Margaret Atwood: A study in borderlines. Psychodynamic Practice, 21(1), 60-67.
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- Tekin, L. (2006). Muinar. Everest Yayınları.
- Worster, D. (1993). The wealth of nature: Environmental history and the ecological imagination. Oxford University Press.
Abstract
This study aims to analyze ecocritical explorations and ecofeminist diologics inherent in Muinar by Latife Tekin and Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. These novels portray female characters who undergo important changes in awareness in their pursuit of their identities as both novels have a primary emphasis on critiquing patriarchal perception of women and nature. This study sheds light on how the authors’ sensitivity and concerns about women and environment are manifested with the phases of the modifications in female protagonists Elime through her interaction with the internal voice of Muinar, who enters the minds of many women, in Muinar and a nameless woman through her spiritual journey to her homeland in Surfacing after their closeness to nature. This affiliation consequently results in the characters’ independence, self-sufficiency, resistance to oppression, self-discovery and environmental awareness. Focusing on female characters’ encounter with patriarchal oppression and the necessity of their physical immersion with the land, the authors criticize the harmful and destructive effects of modernized and technologized city life. Asserting alienation from nature and separation between body and mind have brought about the current crisis, these novels concomitantly put the emphasis on the wholeness with all beings on earth in order for women to complete their recuperation and recover from the all the sickness threatening their lives.
Keywords
References
- Atwood, M. (1972). Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart.
- Bohm, D. (2005). Wholeness and the implicate order. Routledge.
- Burridge, T. (2015). Surfacing by Margaret Atwood: A study in borderlines. Psychodynamic Practice, 21(1), 60-67.
- Davion, V. (1994). Is ecofeminism feminist? In K. Warren (Ed.), Ecological Feminism. Routledge. Biderci Dinç, D. (2023). The portrayal of nature in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies, 16(95), 139-156.
- Ekler, O. (2021). A Comparative guide to Sartrean and Deleuzean selves in modernist and postmodernist fiction. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Hay, P. (2002). Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. UNSW Press.
- Lance, L. (1993). Ecofeminism and the politics of reality. In G. Gaard (Ed.), Ecofeminism: Women, animals, nature (pp. 118-145). Toronto University Press.
- Love, G. A. (1996). Revaluing nature: Toward an ecological criticism. In C. Glotfelty & H. Fromm (Eds.), The Ecocriticism reader: Landmarks in literary ecology (pp. 225-240). The University of Georgia Press.
- Merchant, C. (1996). Earthcare: Women and the environment. Routledge.
- McAndrew, D. (1996). Ecofeminism and the teaching of literacy college omposition and communication, 47 (3), 367-382.
- Naess, A. (2003). Ecology, community, and lifestyle: Outline of an ecosophy. Cambridge University Press.
- Özsert, S. (2023). An ecofeminist reading of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Turkish Studies - Language, 18(2), 1219-123.
- Plumwood, V. (2002). Environmental culture: The ecological crisis of reason. Routledge.
- Plumwood, V. (1993). Feminism and the mastery of nature. Routledge.
- Rueckert, W. (1996). Literature and ecology: An experiment in ecocriticism. In C. Glotfelty & H. Fromm (Eds.), The Ecocriticism reader: Landmarks in literary ecology (pp. 105-123). The University of Georgia Press.
- Tekin, L. (2006). Muinar. Everest Yayınları.
- Worster, D. (1993). The wealth of nature: Environmental history and the ecological imagination. Oxford University Press.
Details
| Primary Language | English |
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| Subjects | British and Irish Language, Literature and Culture |
| Journal Section | Research Articles |
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| Publication Date | March 31, 2024 |
| Submission Date | August 25, 2023 |
| Acceptance Date | February 24, 2024 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2024 Volume: 5 Issue: 1 |
