AKADEMİDE HEGEMONYA VE SINIF ÇATIŞMASI: LUCKY JIM

Year 2017, Volume: 57 Issue: 2, 1271 - 1296, 01.01.2017

Sibel Erbayraktar

Abstract

İkinci dünya savaşı sonrası İngiliz kampüs romanlarının ilk örneği olarak kabul edilen Kingsley Amis'in romanı Lucky Jim 1954 Talihli Jim uzun süre eleştirmenler tarafından haf komedi olarak göz ardı edilse de akademik teamül ve geleneklere ciddi bir yergi barındırmaktadır. Merkezine sınıfsal çatışmayı alarak, akademide yerleşe gelmiş hiyerarşik yapılanmayı sorgular ve İngiliz Refah Devleti politikaları ile yüksek öğretime gelişigüzel dahil edilmiş alt sınıf akademisyenin muğlak durumunu gözler önüne serer. Roman akademideki güç ilişkilerini ayrıntılı bir şekilde örneklerken hem karakter hem de anlatımı ile üniversitedeki politik atmosferi de vurgular. Ayrıca öğretim elemanları arasında haksız rekabet yaratan kapitalist politikaları da sorunsallaştırır. Bundan dolayı bu araştırmanın amacı, hegemonyacı baskıya karşı gelişen bireysel ve sınıf bazlı tepkileri referans alarak, hâkim kapitalist ideolojinin akademiye sirayet edişinin sonuçlarını roman çerçevesinde tartışmaktır.

Keywords

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim, Hegemonya, Sınıfsal Çatışma, Kapitalizm, Hâkim İdeoloji, Akademi, Kültürel Sermaye

HEGEMONY AND CLASS-CONFLICT IN ACADEMIA: LUCKY JIM

Abstract

Accepted as the rst British example of the post-war campus novels, Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim 1954 was overlooked as a light comedy for a very long time by the critics, yet it harbours a serious satire of the academic traditions and manners. By centralizing classantagonism, it questions the established hierarchical structure in the academia, and unfolds the ambiguous situation of the working-class academic who is thrown into the system of higher education with the regulations of the Welfare State of England. The novel illustrates the power struggles within academia in detail and elaborates on the political atmosphere of the university through its characterization and narration. Furthermore, it problematizes the persistence of capitalist policies in academia, which creates an air of unfair rivalry among academics. Therefore, this article aims to discuss the outcomes of the diffusion of the dominant capitalist ideology into the academia in the novel, with specic reference to the individualistic and class-based differences in reaction to such hegemonic pressure.

Keywords

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim, Hegemony, Class-Antagonism, Capitalism, Dominant Ideology, Academia, Cultural Capital

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