RUSHDIE'NİN GECEYARISI ÇOCUKLARI VE GRASS'IN TENEKE TRAMPET ADLI ROMANLARINDA TARİH İLE BÜTÜNLEŞMİŞ BEDENLER

Abstract

Salman Rushdie ve Günter Grass yazdıkları eserlerle daima eleştirmenlerin dikkatlerini üzerlerine çekmişlerdir. Ülke tarihine ışık tutma noktasında çok büyük öneme sahip olan Günter Grass’ın Teneke Trampet ve Salman Rushdie’nin Geceyarısı Çocukları adlı romanlarında yazarlar, ana vatanlarının tarihinin en önemli dönemlerini yansıtmaya çalışmışlardır. Grass, Alman tarihinin kırılma noktası olan Hitler dönemi ve sonrasını ele alırken, Rushdie bağımsız Hindistan’ın doğuşuyla ilgilenmiştir. Her iki yazar da bahsini ettikleri dönemin ulus üzerinde meydana getirdiği olumlu ve olumsuz yönlerini eserlerinde işler. Her iki romanda; kimlik, tarih, postmodernizm, metinlerarasılık, tarihyazımsal üst kurgu gibi zengin öğeleri gözlemlemek kaçınılmazdır. Bu bağlamda her iki romanın ana karakteri, bu çalışmada değinildiği üzere, ana vatanları ile aynı yazgıya sahiptirler.

Keywords

• Geceyarısı Çocukları, Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie, tarih, Teneke Trampet.

THE BODIES COALESCED WITH HISTORY IN RUSHDIE'S MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN AND GRASS' THE TIN DRUM

Abstract

Salman Rushdie and Günter Grass always attract the readers' attention with their fabulous novels. In their novels titled Tin Drum by Günter Grass and Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie having much importance to irradiate their homeland's history, the authors indicate the most important incidences in their history. While Grass deals with Hitler's period and his aftermath, Rushdie concerns about the birth of independent India. Both writers pen the advantage and disadvantage aspects of the then term in the society. A great number of terms, such as identity, history, postmodernism, intertextuality, histographic metafiction can be easily observed in the novels. In this context, the protagonists of these two novels have the same destiny with their homeland, which is emphasized in this study.

Keywords

• Midnight's Children, Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie, history, The Tin Drum.

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