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Angela Carter’ın “Kurt Adam” ve “Kurtların Dostu” Adlı Kısa Hikayelerinde Mitolojiden Arındırma Etkisi

Year 2021, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 20 - 29, 31.12.2021

Abstract

Angela Carter’ın eserleri üzerindeki yorumlama anlayışında, özellikle de mitolojiden arındırma işlemini uygulamasında, masalların çok büyük bir etkisi vardır. Carter için esas olan, eski eserlerin yeniden okumalarını yapmaktır ki bu okumalar, onun mitolojiden arındırma vazifesindeki öncelikli amacına odaklanmasını sağlar. Carter, mitolojiden arındırma tekniği sayesinde eski eserlerde olan geleneksel ve istenilen anlamları çıkarıp onları hiçe sayar ve böylece yeniden yazılmış, alışılmışı yıkan tarzdaki eserlerini meydana getirmek için gerekli olan genel görünümü hazırlamış olur. Carter’ın edebi gücü olarak görülen bu mitolojiden arındırma etkisi, kendisinin eski eserleri yeniden okumasıyla, ataerkil mitlerle ilgili bayağılığı yok eder. Bu çalışmanın amacı, kadınların cinsel rolleri ve cinsiyet kodları üzerine ket vuran, bir nevi kadın düşmanı olan geleneksel mitlerdeki kökleşmiş aldatmacaları ortaya çıkarmaktır. Bu çalışmanın bir diğer amacı da, meşhur “Kırmızı Başlıklı Kız” hikayesinin yeniden okumaları olan Carter’ın “Kurt Adam” ve “Kurtların Dostu” adlı kısa hikayelerinde; özerkliği, özgür cinselliği ve özgür iradeyi yansıtan kadınlar için edebi bir uzam oluşturan yıkıcı bir görünümü göstermektir.

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The Demythologizing Effect in Angela Carter’s “The Werewolf” and “The Company of Wolves”

Year 2021, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 20 - 29, 31.12.2021

Abstract

Fairy tales have prominent influences on Angela Carter’s sense of interpretation in her narratives, especially in practicing her demythologizing processes. For Carter, what is essential is the new readings of old texts which help her focus on the primary purpose of her demythologizing business. Through demythologization, Carter discards and disregards the traditional, or intended meanings in these old texts and then she prepares the panorama to create her subversive rewritings. Carter’s demythologization is considered to be Carter’s literal force which eradicates patriarchal mythic abjections through her new readings of old texts. The purpose of this study is to reveal the rooted deceptions in the misogynistic myths, hindering the gender codes and the sexual roles of women. Furthermore, it is also within the purpose of this study to display new subversive panorama creating a literal space for women who reflect autonomy, sexuality, free-will and rationality in Carter’s “The Werewolf” and “The Company of Wolves” as the new readings of the well-known tale “The Little Red Riding Hood.”

References

  • Adorno, T. (2003). The Jargon of Authenticity, New York: Routledge.
  • Andermahr, S. (2012). “Contemporary Women’s Writing: Carter’s Literary Legacy,” Andermahr, S. and Lawrence Phillips ed. Angela Carter: New Critical Readings, London: Continuum International Publishing. pp. 19-30.
  • Carter, A. (1979). The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History, London: Virago.
  • ---. (1995a). “The Company of Wolves,” The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, London: Vintage. pp.110-118.
  • ---. (1995b). “The Werewolf,” The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, London: Vintage, pp.108-110.
  • ---. (1998). “Notes from the Front Line,” Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings, introd. Joan Smith, London: Penguin Books. pp. 26-30.
  • ---. (2008). Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, introd. Jack Zipes, London: Penguin Books.
  • Calvin, D. (2011). “Anti-Fairy Tale and the Demythologising Business in Jane Campion’s The Piano and Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber,”” Postmodern Reinterpretations Of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings, edt. Anna Kérchy, Lewiston, Lempeter: The Edwin Mellen Press. pp. 181-201.
  • Jowett, L. (2012). “Between the Paws of the Tender Wolf: Authorship, Adaptation and Audience,” Andermahr, S. and Lawrence Phillips ed. Angela Carter: New Critical Readings, London: Continuum International Publishing, pp. 40-49. Katrak, H. K. (2006). Politics of the Female Body, London: Rutgers University Press.
  • Kérchy, A. (2008). Body Texts in The Novels of Angela Carter: Writing From a Corporeagraphic Point of View, Lampeter UK: The Edwin Mellen Press.
  • Özüm, A. (2011). “Deconstructed Masculine Evil in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber Stories,” Constructing Good and Evil, Ed. Laura Torres Zuniga and Isabel M Andres Cuevas, Oxford, United Kingdom: Interdisciplinary Press, pp. 153-161. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/
  • Sceats, S. (2005). “Flights of Fancy: Angela Carter’s Transgressive Narratives,” Hart, M. S. & Ouyang, W. ed. A Companion to Magical Realism, Woodbridge: Tamesis, Athenaeum Press, pp. 142-150.
  • Zipes, J. (2009). Relentless Progress: The Reconfiguration of Children’s Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling, New York: Routledge.
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Primary Language English
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Çelik Ekmekçi 0000-0002-7123-2621

Publication Date December 31, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021 Volume: 6 Issue: 2

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APA Ekmekçi, Ç. (2021). The Demythologizing Effect in Angela Carter’s “The Werewolf” and “The Company of Wolves”. Bartın Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 6(2), 20-29.