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SPEKÜLATİF KURGUDA SALGIN TEMASI

Year 2020, Volume: 60 Issue: 2, 672 - 685, 01.01.2020

Abstract

Spekülatif edebî geleneğin, üretildiği toplumun gerçekliği ile yakın bir ilişkisi vardır. Spekülatif eserlerde, kurgusal mekânların kullanılması, zamanın uzak bir gelecekte olacak şekilde tasarlanması, hayal gücünün ön plana çıkması ve günümüz koşullarında gerçekleşmesi mümkün olmayan teknolojik ve bilimsel gelişmelerin sunulması gibi faktörler, bu geleneğin gerçeklikten kopuk olabileceği düşüncesini uyandırabilir. Ancak, COVID-19 pandemisi ile mücadele eden günümüz dünyasında, spekülatif kurgunun bağlamsal boyutu belirgin bir şekilde ortaya çıkmıştır. Covid-19 dünyasında insanların hayatları, distopyalardaki ve bilim kurgu eserlerindeki karakterlerin hayatlarına benzer hâle gelmiştir. Alternatif kurmaca senaryolarla, olası dünya düzenlerini işleyen bu edebî gelenek içerisinde, salgın temalı spekülatif eserleri bulmak mümkündür. COVID-19; bilim kurgu, apokaliptik ve post-apokaliptik kurgu ve distopya gibi spekülatif edebiyatın alt türlerine olan ilgiyi ulusal ve uluslararası seviyede artırmıştır. Bu noktadan yola çıkarak bu çalışmanın amacı, spekülatif edebî geleneğin gerçek dünya ile ilişkisini, salgın teması üzerinden ortaya koymak ve spekülatif kurgunun, günümüzü ve geleceği anlamadaki önemini, jenerik özelliklere göndermelerde bulunarak tartışmaktır. Sonuç olarak, spekülatif metinlerin olası gelecek senaryolarını anlamlandırmada yol gösterici ve uyarıcı metinler olduğu savunulacaktır.

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PANDEMICS AND EPIDEMICS IN SPECULATIVE FICTION

Year 2020, Volume: 60 Issue: 2, 672 - 685, 01.01.2020

Abstract

Speculative fiction has a close connection with the contextual reality of the society in which it is produced. The use of fictional settings, which are remote in space and time; an emphasis upon the power of imagination; and the representation of imaginary technological and scientific developments may lead speculative fiction to be considered to be detached from reality. However, this approach has undergone a radical change within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, as adopting a novel attitude has become necessary. Our lives have become similar to the lives of the characters in literary dystopias and science fiction texts. Within this literary tradition that projects fictional alternative world scenarios, there exist numerous speculative texts about pandemics and epidemics. COVID-19 has increased the national and international interest in the sub-genres of speculative fiction such as science fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and dystopia. The aim of this study is therefore to reveal the interconnection between speculative fiction and the real world through brief references to relevant exemplary texts and to discuss the significance of this literary tradition in understanding the present and the future with specific references to its generic features. The ultimate aim of this study will be to prove how speculative works can be guiding and cautionary texts in understanding the possible future scenarios.

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  • Atwood, Margaret. Antilop ve Flurya. İstanbul: Oğlak Yayınları, 2005.
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  • Camcıoğlu, Yıldız. “İmmün sistemin doğuştan kusurları ve korona virüs pandemisi”. Turkish Journal of Immunology 8. 1 (2020): 13-20. Web. 21 Temmuz 2020.
  • Ciabattari, Jane. “The plague writers who predicted today.” BBC 14 April 2020. Web. 28 Nisan 2020.
  • Clay, Lauren. “Generation COVID: Exploring the pandemic’s long-term impact on generation z.” Danacommunications 6 August 2020. Web. 7 Ağustos 2020.
  • Davich, Jerry. “COVID-19 makes us feel as if we are living in a science-fiction movie --- and none of us know the ending.” Chicago Tribune 13 April 2020. Web. 2 Ağustos 2020.
  • Fuchs, Christian. “Everyday life and everyday communication in coronavirus capitalism.” Triple 18. 1 (2020): 375-399. Web. 19 Haziran 2020.
  • Guba, Egon G. ve Yvonna S. Lincoln. “Competing paradigms in qualitative research.” Handbook of Qualitative Research. Ed. Norman K. Denzin ve Yvonna S. Lincoln, Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage, 1994. 105-117. Web. 19 Temmuz 2020.
  • Gürlevik, Sibel Laçinel. “Koronavirüsler ve Yeni Koronavirüs Sars-CoV-2.” Journal of Pediatric Infection 14. 1 (2020): 46-48.
  • Heinlein, Robert A. “On the writing of speculative fiction.” Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science Fiction Writing. Ed. Lloyd Arthur Eshbach. Reading, PA: Fantasy, 1947. 13-19.
  • İmamoğlu, Abdulfettah. “Apokaliptik modernizm, bilim-kurgu ve mekânın sonu.” MOLESTO: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 2. 1 (2019): 12-34. Web. 27 Haziran 2020.
  • Jones, Lora, Daniele Palumbo ve David Brown. “Coronavirus: A visual guide to the economic impact.” BBC 30 June 2020. Web. 5 Temmuz 2020.
  • Khatib, Joumana ve diğerleri. “Your quarantine reader.” New York Times 12 March 2020. Web. 20 Mayıs 2020.
  • Ma, Ling. Severance: A Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
  • Outka, Elizabeth. Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.
  • Passell, Aaron. “SF novels and sociological experimentation: examining real world dynamics through imaginative displacement.” Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction: Challenging Genres. Ed. P. L. Thomas. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2013. 59-72.
  • Saramago, José. Körlük. 23. Basım. İstanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınevi, 2020.
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  • Self, John. “Why people are returning to pandemic fiction to help process the Covid-19 crisis.” Web. 19 Nisan 2020.
  • Streeby, Shelley. Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making Through Science Fiction and Activism. Berkeley, California: California UP, 2018.
  • Witte, William. “The sociological approach to literature.” The Modern Language Review 36. 1 (1941): 86-94. Web. 1 Ağustos 2020.
  • Wood, Heloise. “The books that could flourish in this pandemic era.” BBC 7 Mayıs 2020. Web. 19 Mayıs 2020.
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Primary Language Turkish
Journal Section Research Article
Authors

Emrah Atasoy This is me

Publication Date January 1, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 60 Issue: 2

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APA Atasoy, E. (2020). SPEKÜLATİF KURGUDA SALGIN TEMASI. Ankara Üniversitesi Dil Ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 60(2), 672-685.

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