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RİCHARD POWERS’IN KAZANÇ VE LATİFE TEKİN’İN BERJİ KRİSTİN: ÇÖP TEPELERİNDEN MASALLAR ESERLERİNDE EKOHASTALIK

Year 2024, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 316 - 343, 22.04.2024

Abstract

Bu makale, Richard Powers'ın Kazanç (1998) ve Latife Tekin'in Berji Kristin: Çöp Tepelerinden Masallar (1984) adlı eserlerindeki “ekohastalığı” Heather Houser'ın Ecosicknesss: In Contemporary U.S. Fiction (2014) kitabının ışığında incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Romanların analizi, çevre ve sağlığın karşılıklı etkileşimini vurgulaması açısından dikkat çekicidir. Bu makale, romanlarda ekohastalığın izini Stacy Alaimo'nun transbedenlilik kavramı ile Rob Nixon'un yavaş şiddet kavramı ve Buell'in toksisite yorumuyla birlikte sürmektedir. Esas olarak toksik maddelerin önemini, çevre ve insan vücuduyla olan etkileşimlerini ve onlar üzerinde giderek artan zararlı etkilerini tartışmaktadır. Yazarlar, insanoğlunun canlı ve cansızların karşılıklı bağımlılığı konusundaki bilgisizliğinin ekolojik sonuçlarını ve zehirli sahneleri sürdürmenin sorumluluğunu açığa çıkarırlar. Yazıları, toksik kirlenme, çevre kirliliği, kirlenmiş özel ve kamusal alanlar ve teknolojik veya endüstriyel toksik risklerin insanlar ve insan olmayanlar üzerindeki etkisi gibi çevresel sorunları tanımlamaktadır. Romanlarında ana odak noktası, karakterlerin bedenlerinin ve zihinlerinin çevrelerine nasıl hapsolduğudur. Bu makale, yakın okumalar yaparak, Powers ve Tekin'in insan vücudu ve fiziksel dünya arasındaki ilişkiyi nasıl ele aldıklarını, özellikle toksisite, kirlilik ve kontaminasyon şeklindeki ekolojik krizler nedeniyle insan ve çevre sağlığı kaybını nasıl açıkladıklarını ve sorumluluk etiği yoluyla çevresel bozulmaya ilişkin sorun ve endişelerle nasıl ilgilendiklerini açığa çıkarmaktadır.

References

  • Alaimo, S. (2010). Bodily natures: science, environment, and the material self. Indiana University Press.
  • Atay, H. D. & Atay, H. (2022). As natural as eating and drinking: garbage collection and perpetual recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: tales from the Garbage Hills. WOLLT, 3 (2), 152-170.
  • Buell, L. (2001).Writing for an endangered world: literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. Harward University Press.
  • Cengiz, N. B. (2017). 'Non-Istanbulites' of Istanbul: the right to the city novels in Turkish literature from the 1960s to the present. Leiden University Scholarly Publications. https://hdl.handle.net/1887/49670
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  • Lerner, S. (2010). Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States. MIT.
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  • Özer, P. (2005). Latife Tekin kitabı. Everest Yayınları.
  • Nixon, R. (2011). Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor. Harward University Press.
  • Powers, R. (1998). Gain:a novel.Picador.
  • Steingraber, S. (1997). Living Downstream: an ecologist’s investigation of cancer and the environment. Da Capo Press.
  • Tan, C. (2022). A Comprehensive Survey of Ecocritical Studies in Turkish Academia. Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters. 39(1), 212-226.
  • Taylor, M. C. (2013). Rewiring the real: in conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo. Columbia University Press.
  • Tekin, L. (1993). Berji Kristin: tales from the garbage hills. (R.Christie, and S. Paker, Trans.) Marion Boyars

ECOSICKNESS IN GAIN BY RICHARD POWERS AND BERJI KRISTIN: THE TALES FROM THE GARBAGE HILLS BY LATİFE TEKİN

Year 2024, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 316 - 343, 22.04.2024

Abstract

This article aims to investigate “ecosickness” in Gain (1998) by Richard Powers and Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills (1984) by Latife Tekin in the light of Ecosicknesss: In Contemporary U.S. Fiction (2014) by Heather Houser. The analysis of the novels is remarkable, especially in terms of their underlining the mutuality of environment and health. Concerning the concept of trans-corporeality by Stacy Alaimo in conjunction with Rob Nixon’s concept of slow violence and Buell’s interpretation of toxicity, this article traces ecosickness in these novels. It mainly discusses the significance of toxic materials and their interference with the environment and human bodies, and their increasingly harmful effects on them. The writers unveil the ecological consequences of human ignorance of the interdependencies of the living and non-living and the responsibility for perpetuating toxic scenes. Their writings identify environmental issues like toxic contamination, environmental pollution, contaminated private and public spheres, and the impact of technological or industrial toxic risks on humans and non-humans. The main focus in their novels is on how the bodies and minds of the characters in their novels are enmeshed in their environments. By deploying close readings, it explores how Powers and Tekin underline the link between capitalism's intention to expand profit and environmental degradation and reflect environmental issues in the form of ecosickness. It reveals how they consider the correlation between human bodies and their physical world, explain the loss of human health and environmental health due to ecological crises, especially in the form of pollution, contamination and toxicity, and engage with issues on environmental degradation through ethics of responsibility.

References

  • Alaimo, S. (2010). Bodily natures: science, environment, and the material self. Indiana University Press.
  • Atay, H. D. & Atay, H. (2022). As natural as eating and drinking: garbage collection and perpetual recovery in Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: tales from the Garbage Hills. WOLLT, 3 (2), 152-170.
  • Buell, L. (2001).Writing for an endangered world: literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. Harward University Press.
  • Cengiz, N. B. (2017). 'Non-Istanbulites' of Istanbul: the right to the city novels in Turkish literature from the 1960s to the present. Leiden University Scholarly Publications. https://hdl.handle.net/1887/49670
  • Houser, H. (2014).Ecosickness: in contemporary U.S. fiction.Calombia University Press.
  • Lerner, S. (2010). Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States. MIT.
  • Oppermann, S. (2013). Material Ecocriticism And The Creativity Of Storied Matter. Frame: Journal Of Literary Studies. 26, 55-69.
  • Özer, P. (2005). Latife Tekin kitabı. Everest Yayınları.
  • Nixon, R. (2011). Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor. Harward University Press.
  • Powers, R. (1998). Gain:a novel.Picador.
  • Steingraber, S. (1997). Living Downstream: an ecologist’s investigation of cancer and the environment. Da Capo Press.
  • Tan, C. (2022). A Comprehensive Survey of Ecocritical Studies in Turkish Academia. Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters. 39(1), 212-226.
  • Taylor, M. C. (2013). Rewiring the real: in conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo. Columbia University Press.
  • Tekin, L. (1993). Berji Kristin: tales from the garbage hills. (R.Christie, and S. Paker, Trans.) Marion Boyars
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Primary Language English
Subjects Language Studies (Other)
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Derya Biderci Dinç 0000-0002-9443-7136

Publication Date April 22, 2024
Submission Date August 16, 2023
Published in Issue Year 2024 Volume: 11 Issue: 1

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APA Biderci Dinç, D. (2024). ECOSICKNESS IN GAIN BY RICHARD POWERS AND BERJI KRISTIN: THE TALES FROM THE GARBAGE HILLS BY LATİFE TEKİN. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 11(1), 316-343.
AMA Biderci Dinç D. ECOSICKNESS IN GAIN BY RICHARD POWERS AND BERJI KRISTIN: THE TALES FROM THE GARBAGE HILLS BY LATİFE TEKİN. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. April 2024;11(1):316-343.
Chicago Biderci Dinç, Derya. “ECOSICKNESS IN GAIN BY RICHARD POWERS AND BERJI KRISTIN: THE TALES FROM THE GARBAGE HILLS BY LATİFE TEKİN”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 11, no. 1 (April 2024): 316-43.
EndNote Biderci Dinç D (April 1, 2024) ECOSICKNESS IN GAIN BY RICHARD POWERS AND BERJI KRISTIN: THE TALES FROM THE GARBAGE HILLS BY LATİFE TEKİN. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 11 1 316–343.
IEEE D. Biderci Dinç, “ECOSICKNESS IN GAIN BY RICHARD POWERS AND BERJI KRISTIN: THE TALES FROM THE GARBAGE HILLS BY LATİFE TEKİN”, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 316–343, 2024.
ISNAD Biderci Dinç, Derya. “ECOSICKNESS IN GAIN BY RICHARD POWERS AND BERJI KRISTIN: THE TALES FROM THE GARBAGE HILLS BY LATİFE TEKİN”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 11/1 (April 2024), 316-343.
JAMA Biderci Dinç D. ECOSICKNESS IN GAIN BY RICHARD POWERS AND BERJI KRISTIN: THE TALES FROM THE GARBAGE HILLS BY LATİFE TEKİN. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 2024;11:316–343.
MLA Biderci Dinç, Derya. “ECOSICKNESS IN GAIN BY RICHARD POWERS AND BERJI KRISTIN: THE TALES FROM THE GARBAGE HILLS BY LATİFE TEKİN”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, pp. 316-43.
Vancouver Biderci Dinç D. ECOSICKNESS IN GAIN BY RICHARD POWERS AND BERJI KRISTIN: THE TALES FROM THE GARBAGE HILLS BY LATİFE TEKİN. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 2024;11(1):316-43.