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Gita Mehta’nın A River Sutra Eserinde Kültür, Din ve Doğa

Year 2021, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 377 - 390, 31.12.2021
https://doi.org/10.33905/bseusbed.930029

Abstract

Bu makale, Gita Mehta'nın sömürgecilik sonrası romanı olanA River Sutra'sını manevi ekolojik bir bakış açısıyla incelemektedir. Romandaki Hint dinlerinin ekolojik içerimlerinin analizini içerir. Mehta'nın çevre sorunları ile uğraşırken sömürge sonrası konularla ilişkisini, doğanın ilahilikle ilişkisini sunmasını ve Narmada Vadisi Projesi'ne karşı, doğal ve sosyal dünyada çeşitliliklerin ve benliğin geleneksel birliği fikrini inşa etmesini keşfetmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Mehta romandaki öykülerinde Hint kültüründe çeşitli zaman dilimlerini ve çeşitli dini inançları ve uygulamaları sunuyor. Bu dinler, kültürel uygulamaların ve kültürel kimliğin her yönünü tanımlamada önemli roller oynamıştır. İngiliz küresel kapitalist emperyalistlerinin emperyalist eğemenliğini sürdüren, kültürü –doğa ikiciliğinin Hindistan'da insanlarla doğa arasındaki geleneksel bağa nasıl zarar verdiğini araştırıyor. Doğayı kontrol etmeyi amaçlayan, küresel kapitalist emperyalistlerin Narmada Nehri kıyılarında günümüz çevre sorunlarını yaratan ve insan ile doğa arasındaki geleneksel bağını kıran Narmada Vadisi Geliştirme Projesi'ne duyulan endişeyi yansıtıyor. Kültür ve doğanın bir arada varoluşunu ve Hintlilerin fiziksel, kültürel ve dini kimliklerinin ve hayatta kalmasının kaynağı olarak Narmada Nehrini yeniden düzenliyor.

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Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta

Year 2021, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 377 - 390, 31.12.2021
https://doi.org/10.33905/bseusbed.930029

Abstract

This paper offers a study of postcolonial novel, A River Sutra by Gita Mehta from an eco-spiritual perspective. It includes the analysis of the ecological implications of Indian religions in it. It aims to explore Mehta’s engagement with the postcolonial issues while dealing with the environmental issues, her presentation of the relevance of nature to the divinity, and her construction of the traditional idea of the unity of diversities and self in the natural and the social world against the Narmada Valley Project. In her stories in the novel, Mehta presents various timeframes and diverse religious beliefs and practices in Indian culture. These religions have played significant roles in defining every aspect of cultural practices and cultural identity. She explores how the British global capitalist imperialists’ culture–nature dualism, which has sustained imperialist rule, has damaged the traditional bond between human beings and nature in India. She reflects a concern for the Narmada Valley Development Project of global capitalist imperialists, which aims to control the nature and has created the contemporary environmental problems around the Narmada River and fractured the traditional bond between nature and human beings. She reconstructs the co-existence of culture and nature and the Narmada River as the source of physical, cultural, and spiritual identities and survival of the Indian.

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  • Barnhill, David L., & Gottlieb, Roger S. (2001). Deep Ecology And World Religions: New Essays On Sacred Ground. State University of New York Press.
  • Capra, Fritjof & Luisi, Pier L. (2014). The Systems View Of Life. Cambridge University Press.
  • Conrad, Joseph. (2015). Hearth of Darkness. Sis Publishing.
  • Glotfelty, Cheryll, & Fromm, Harold. (1996). The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. GA: U of Georgia P.
  • Harding, Stephan. (2010). Gaia Theory and Deep Ecology. Green Spirit: Path To A New Consciousness, edited by Marian Van Eyk Mccain, O Books, 36-50.
  • Kundu, Rama. (1999). Surfacing and A Riversutra: A Comparative Study Of Two Pilgrimages. Comparative English Literature edited by Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar,Atlantic Publishers and Distributers, 4-27.
  • Mehta, Gita. (1993). A River Sutra. Penguin.
  • Taylor, Bron. (2005). The Encyclopedia of Religion And Nature. Continuum, A-J.. Vol.1.
  • Wiemann, Dirk. (2013). …What Will Count as the World: Indian Short Story Cycles and The Question Of Genre. Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres, edited by Walter Goebel And Saskia Schabio, New York, 155-170.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Creative Arts and Writing
Journal Section Articles
Authors

Derya Biderci Dinç 0000-0002-9443-7136

Publication Date December 31, 2021
Submission Date April 29, 2021
Acceptance Date September 15, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021 Volume: 6 Issue: 2

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APA Biderci Dinç, D. (2021). Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta. Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 6(2), 377-390. https://doi.org/10.33905/bseusbed.930029