YAZARLAR VE DÜNYALARI: JOSEPH CONRAD'IN KARANLIĞIN YÜREĞİ VE CHINUA ACHEBE'NİN PARÇALANMA ADLI ROMANLARI

Abstract

Kültürel değerler, gelenek ve görenekler, belirli konulara bakış açıları veya yaklaşımlar zamanla değişir. Kendi dönemlerinin ürünleri olarak edebi eserler, içinde doğdukları dönemin sosyal, politik ve ekonomik koşullarını yansıtan değerli bilgiler taşırlar. Bu çalışmanın amacı hem Conrad'ın hem de Achebe'nin, geçmişleri, hayat tecrübeleri ve yaşadıkları dönemden dolayı, Karanlığın Yüreği ve Parçalanma adlı romanlarını yazarlarken Afrika'ya ve Afrika’da yaşayan insanlara karşı farklı yaklaşımlara sahip olduklarını göstermektir. Ayrıca bu çalışma, Achebe'nin Conrad’ı Karanlığın Yüreği adlı çalışmasını kaleme alırken kanlı bir ırkçı olduğu suçlamasını da çürütmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bahsi geçen her iki romanın incelenmesinde kullanılan yaklaşım, her dönemin kendine özgü koşullarını ve ideolojisini yansıttığı bilinen tarihsel-biyografi yaklaşımıdır.

Keywords

• Karanlığın Yüreği
• Parçalanma
• Emperyalizm
• Ondokuzuncu Yüzyıl
• Söylem

WRITERS AND THEIR WORLDS: HEART OF DARKNESS BY JOSEPH CONRAD AND THINGS FALL APART BY CHINUA ACHEBE

Abstract

Cultural values, customs, traditions, and points of view or approaches to certain issues change over time. Literary works, as the products of their own periods, carry valuable information that reflect social, political, and economic conditions of their times. The aim of this study is to show that both Conrad and Achebe, due to their background and the discourse they lived in, had different approaches regarding Africa and its residents when they wrote their novels Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart, respectively. Furthermore, this study also aims at refuting Achebe’s accusation that Conrad was a bloody-racist when he penned Heart of Darkness since discourses of different periods do not have to create subjects thinking or evaluating situations in the same manner. The approach used for the analysis of the two novels is historical-biographical approach since it is expected that this method will reveal the conditions and the ideology of each period exclusively.

Keywords

• Heart of Darkness
• Things Fall Apart
• Imperialism
• Nineteenth century
• Discourse

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