Sahar Khalifeh’nün “Ayçiçeği” Adlı Eserinde Entropi

Year 2008, Volume: 48 Issue: 1, 53 - 64, 01.01.2008

Wisam Mansour

Abstract

Filistinli bir akademisyen ve yazar olan Sahar Khalifeh yazılarında başka birçok konuyla birlikte, köylü ve kentli Filistinlilerin günlük yaşayışlarında işgalin etkisini incelemektedir. 1980’de yayınlanan Sunflower isimli eserinde Nablus şehrini, içinde yaşayan çeşitli erkek ve kadın karakterlerin bakış açısıyla etnik köken, sınıf, cinsiyet ve yerleşmişlik anlamında işgal edilişini anlatmıştır. Khalife’nin yazılarında şehir ve şehir sakinleri, askeri işgalin etkisiyle çevreden soyutlanan, düşman topluluklarla çevrelenen, cinsel ve duygusal olarak problemli ve körelmiş olarak yansıtılırlar. Khalifeh, şehirdeki gelişmenin yıkıcı bir etkisi olarak gördüğü işgalin insanları ve toprağı tüketen, enkaza ve terkedilmiş bir yığına dönüştüren korkunç bir makina gibi algılamaktadır.

Keywords

Khalifeh, Filistin, İşgal, Entropi

Entropy in Sahar Khalifeh’s "The Sunflower"

Abstract

Sahar Khalifeh, a Palestinian academic and novelist, explores in her narrative the impact of occupation on the day-to-day life of Palestinians in their cities and villages. In her 1980 Sunflower, Khalifeh vividly portrays the city of Nablus from the perspectives of several male and female characters who view the city and themselves under occupation from the perspectives of class, gender, ethnicity and situatedness. Cut off from the outside by military occupation, cordoned by hostile settlements, and impaired sexually and emotionally, the city and its inhabitants in Khalifeh’s narrative suffer from excessive atrophy. As a result of its devastating effect on the growth of the city, Khalifeh perceives in occupation vicious machinery that consumes up the land and the people creating a wasteland, a system of physical debris and human dereliction.

Keywords

Khalifeh, Palestine, Occupation, Entropy

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