A POSTCOLONİAL ANALYSİS OF J.M. COETZEE'S TWO NOVELS: WAİTİNG FOR THE BARBARİANS AND LİFE AND TİMES OF MİCHAEL K.

Year 2010, Issue: 28, 71 - 80, 30.12.2010

Hatice Elif Diler Derya Emir

Abstract

Colonialism is a type of domination in which political, racist, economic and cultural issues are imposed on the colonized groups through the medium of exploitation, degradation and torture. For centuries Western nations, their supreme position and imperial power, exploited the colonized economically and culturally by destroying their traditions and culture. The term ‘postcolonial’ was originally used by the historians to describe the period after colonization. This study focuses on J. M. Coetzee, one of the pioneers of South African literature, and his two novels Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) and Life and Times of Michael K (1983) as post-colonial literary texts

Keywords

-

A POSTCOLONİAL ANALYSİS OF J.M. COETZEE'S TWO NOVELS: WAİTİNG FOR THE BARBARİANS AND LİFE AND TİMES OF MİCHAEL K.

Abstract

Sömürgecilik, sömüren bir grubun sömürülen üzerinde istismar, yıkım, eziyet ve şiddet kullanarak, politik, ırkçı, ekonomik, kültürel açılardan hâkimiyet ve egemenlik sağlamasıdır. Yüz yıllar boyu Batılı devletler, ekonomik ve kültürel baskı kullanarak siyahî yerli halkı sömürmüşler ve kendi tahakküm ve egemenliklerini kullanarak onların haklarını, gelenek ve göreneklerini hiçe saymışlardır. ‘Sömürgecilik sonrası dönem’ terimi ise tarihçiler tarafından bu dönemden sonra ortaya çıkan süreci tanımlamak amacı ile kullanılmıştır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, eserlerinde sözkonusu dönemi anlatan ve Güney Afrika’ nın en önemli yazarlarından biri olan J. M. Coetzee’nin Barbarları Beklerken ve Michael K. Yaşamı ve Yaşadığı Dönem adlı romanlarını Sömürgecilik Sonrası Edebiyat kapsamında incelemektir

Keywords

Sömürgecilik sonrası, sömürgecilik, J.M. Coetzee

References

• ASHCROFT, Bill. GRIFFITHS, Gareth. TIFFIN, Helen. Post-Colonial Studies: Key Concepts. London, Routledge, 2000.
• ATTWELL, David. J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing. Berkeley Cape Town: University of California Press David Philip, 1993.
• BOEHMER, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors. Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.
• COETZEE, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians. Vintage, Great Britain, 2004.
• COETZEE, J. M. Life and Times of Michael K. Vintage, Great Britain, 2004.
• LIN, Lidan. “J. M. Coetzee and the Postcolonial Rhetoric of Simultaneity.” International Fiction Review. 28.1-2 (Jan. 2001): p42.
• Literature Resource Center. Gale. LOOMBA, Ania. Colonialism/ Postcolonialism. 3rd edition. London: Routledge. 2000.
• MARAIS, Michael. “J. M. Coetzee. “South African Writers.” Ed. Paul A. Scanlon. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 225. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. Literature Resource Center.
• MASOLO D. A. African Philosophy in Search of Identity. Indiana University Press, 1994.
• MOSELEY, Meritt. “Life and Times of Michael K, by J. M. Coetzee.” Booker Prize Novels: 1969-2005. Ed. Meritt Moseley.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 326. Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2006. MPHAHLELE, Ezekeiel. Voices in the Whirlwind. Tanzania Publishing House Macmillan. 1972.
• POST, Robert M. “Oppression in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee.” Critique. 27.2 (Winter 1986): 67-77. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary
• Criticism Select. Detroit: Gale, 67-77. Literature Resource Center. Gale. SAID, Edward W. Orientalism, Peguin Books. 1978.
• SHAFFER, Brian W. Reading the Novel in English 1950-2000. Blackwell Publishing: USA, 2006.
• THIEME, John. Postcolonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon. London, GBR: Continuum International Publishing, 2002.
• URQUHART, Troy. “Truth, reconciliation, and the restoration of the state: Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians.” Twentieth Century Literature. 52.1 (Spring 2006): p1. Literature Resource Center. Gale.
• WENZEL, Jennifer. “Keys to the Labyrinth: Writing, Torture, and Coetzee's Barbarian Girl.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 1 (Spring 1996): 61-71. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Detroit: Gale. Literature Resource Center.