What is both ideological and magical about ‘memory’ is the fact that it is both singular
and plural which acts as a bridge between the personal and the collective. The example of
that kind of a bridge is especially represented through literature. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet
Letter (1850) and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899), the female body is used as a text to
reflect both cultural and personal memory and to define how ‘memory’ is tried to be shaped
by the society. One of America’s first mass-published books, The Scarlet Letter’s protagonist
Hester Prynne illuminates the geography of the female body that rebels against the cultural
memory through wearing the letter ‘A’ on her gown at all times that signifies ‘adultery.’
On the other hand, her silent rebellion has achieved to transform the letter ‘A’ into ‘Angel,’
‘Artist,’ ‘Art,’ and ‘Able’ that is the declaration of independence of the personal memory
over the cultural. Like Hester, in order to escape from the limitations of the cultural memory,
Edna Pontellier in The Awakening rebels against cultural memory and learns to swim in the
ocean and focuses on art which immediately overlap the definition of her role in life. The
comparative analysis of both of the works underline the fact that the female body has been
used as a geography of cultural memory throughout the history. However, Hester and Edna
are significant for the fact that, the psychic device of both women is a silent rebellion which
creates a social space to fight against cultural memory.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Linguistics |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | May 15, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 23 Issue: 90 |
Journal website: https://folkloredebiyat.org
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Field EdItors
Folklore:
Prof.Dr. Hande Birkalan-Gedik
(Frankfurt University- birkalan-gedik@em.uni.frankfurt.de)
Prof. Dr. Arzu Öztürkmen
(Bosphorus University- ozturkme@boun.edu.tr)
Edebiyat-Literature
Prof. Dr. G. Gonca Gökalp Alpaslan (Hacettepe University - ggonca@
hacettepe.edu.tr)
Prof. Dr. Ramazan Korkmaz
(President, Caucasus University Association- r_korkmaz@hotmail.com)
Antropoloji-Anthropology
Prof. Dr. Akile Gürsoy
(Beykent University - gursoyakile@gmail.com)
Prof.Dr. Serpil Aygün Cengiz
(Ankara University - serpilayguncengiz@gmail.com)
Dil-Dilbilim/Linguistics
Prof.Dr. Aysu Erden
(Maltepe University - aysuerden777@gmail.com)
Prof. Dr. V. Doğan Günay
(Dokuz Eylul University- dogan.gunay@deu.edu.tr)