Abstract
Graham Swift'in 1983 yılında kaleme aldığı “Su Diyarı” adlı romanının başkahramanı Thomas Crick isimli bir tarih öğretmenidir. Thomas Crick, tarih derslerinde anlattığı/anlatması gereken genel tarihi, kendi geçmişinin gizemlerini çözmek ve geçmişi ile yüzleşmek için öznel tarihi ve yaşadığı Fenlands'in yerel tarihi ile iç içe anlatmaktadır. Asıl amacının daha az sıkıcı tarih dersleri vermek olduğunu söylese de, Thomas Crick'in verdiği tarih dersler geçmişe olan bir yolculuk haline gelir. Bu yolculukta Thomas Crick, resmi, yerel ve öznel tarihleri iç içe anlatarak sözü edilen üç farklı tarih arasındaki sınırları yıkmaktadır. Bu anlamda, roman 1980'li yılların ortasında “yeni” bir edebi yaklaşım olarak ortaya çıkan ve çoklu tarih anlayışını savunan ve tarihin kendisi yerine nasıl temsil edildiği ile ilgilenen Yeni Tarihselcilik kuramı tarih anlayışı ile örtüşmekte ve böylece geleneksel tarih anlayışına meydan okumaktadır. Bu makalenin amacı, geleneksel tarih anlayışından çok uzak olan farklı tarih temsil ler ini ortaya çıkaran “Su Diyarı” adlı romanı, Yeni tarihselcilik yaklaşımı çerçevesinde zaman ve bellek kavramlarına değinerek incelemek ve böylece öznel, yerel ve genel tarihin nasıl iç içe geçtiğini ve çoklu tarih temsillerinin geleneksel tarih anlayışını nasıl yıktığını ortaya çıkarmaktır.
Keywords
Yeni Tarihselcilik Tarih Temsili Metnin Tarihselleştirilmesi Tarihin Metinselleştirilmesi Bellek Graham Swift Su Diyarı
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Abstract
Graham Swift's novel Waterland 1983 is about Thomas Crick, a history teacher. In his history lessons, Thomas Crick merges public history with his private history as well as local history of Fenlands where he lives, to face and to solve the mysteries of his past. Thus, by intermingling public, private and local histories, he erases all the boundaries between them and hence gives a different understanding/representation of history and also his history lessons become a journey to his past/history within public and local histories although the only reason for him to do so is to give less boring history lessons. In that sense, the novel meets on the same ground with the New Historicism, ourished in the mid-1980s as a “new” approach which challenges the traditional understanding of history as a grand-narrative and which focuses on how history is represented rather than what it represents. This article aims to analyze the novel Waterland which deconstructs and reconstructs the notion of history by focusing on the concepts of memory and time, and thus to elucidate how the novel challenges the traditional appreciation of history as a grand narrative by merging public, local and private histories with multiple representations of history.
Keywords
New Historicism Representation(s) of History Historicizing the text Textualizing History Memory Graham Swift Waterland
References
- Becker, Carl L. “Everyman His Own Historian.” Everyman His Own Historian; Essays on History and Politics. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1966.
- Finney, Brian. English Fiction since 1984: Narrating a Nation. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2006.
- Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 1989.
- Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke UP, 1993.
- Greenblatt, Stephen. Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. London: Routledge, 1990.
- LaCapra, Dominick. History and Criticism. London: Cornell UP, 1985.
- Lane, Richard J., Rod Mengham, and Philip Tew. Contemporary British Fiction. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007.
- Montrose, Louis A. “Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture.” The New Historicism. Ed. H. Aram Veeser. New York: Routledge, 1989. 15-36.
- Onega, Susan. Telling Histories: Narrativizing History, Historicizing Literature. Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1995.
- Swift, Graham. Waterland. London: Picador, 2008.
- Veeser, H. Aram. The New Historicism. New York: Routledge, 1989.
- Wells, Lynn. Allegories of Telling: Self-referential Narrative in Contemporary British. New York: Costerus New Series, 2003.
- White, Hayden. Metahistory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1973.
Details
| Primary Language | English |
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| Journal Section | Research Article |
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| Publication Date | January 1, 2017 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 57 Issue: 2 |
Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography
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