Modernite ve Modern Değerlerin Eleştirisi: Bye-Bye Blackbird Romanında İngiliz ve Hintlilerin Karşılaştırılması

Year 2023, Volume: 40 Issue: 2, 338 - 346, 27.12.2023

Cengiz Karagöz

https://doi.org/10.32600/huefd.1185180

Abstract

Bu makale diaspor Hintlilerin modern İngiliz toplumuna eleştirel bakışını ve modern değerlerin hakim olduğu yabancı bir ülkede çevrelerine uyum sağlayamamış bu Hintlilerin nasıl huzursuzluk ve kaygı duygusunu hissettiklerini gözler önüne sererek Anita Desai tarafından yazılan Bye-Bye Blackbird romanını ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. Teorik çerçevesini modernitenin eleştirisine dayandıran araştırma Hintli göçmenlerin İngilizleri ve kendilerini modern değerlerle ilgili olarak nasıl konumlandırdıklarına odaklanır. Hintli göçmenler İngilizleri mahremiyet, yalnızlık, soğukluk, yakın ve samimi sosyal ilişkilerin yokluğu, mekanik ve standartlaşmış davranış biçimleriyle özdeşleştirirken kendilerini mekanik olmayan tavırlar ve doğallığın yanında sıcaklık, şefkat ve yakın ilişkileri kapsayan birtakım sosyal normlarla bağdaştırırlar. Çalışmanın merkezi odak noktası diaspor Hintlilerinin İngilizlerin trafik, doğa, sosyal ilişkiler ve teknolojiye karşı tutumlarını gözlemleyerek ve bunları kendi tutumlarıyla karşılaştırarak edindikleri izlenimle ilgilidir.

Keywords

Anita Desai, modernite, modern değerler, diaspora, İngiliz, Hintli.

A Critique of Modernity and Modern Values: Comparing the British with Indians in 'Bye-Bye Blackbird'

Abstract

This paper intends to deal with Bye-Bye Blackbird by Anita Desai by presenting the critical gaze of diasporic Indians over modern British society and the ways these maladjusted Indians feel a sense of uneasiness and discomfort in an alien land dominated by modern values. Basing the theoretical framework on criticism of modernity, the study focuses on how Indian immigrants position the British and themselves in relation to modern values. Whereas they associate the British with privacy, isolation, coldness and lack of close and intimate social relations, a mechanical and standardised pattern of behaviours, they identify themselves with a set of social norms which incorporate warmth, affection and close relations along with spontaneity and non-mechanical acts. The central point of attention concerns the impression diasporic Indians have by observing attitudes of the British toward traffic, nature, social relations and technology and by comparing these attitudes with theirs.

Keywords

Anita Desai, modernity, modern values, diaspora, British, Indian

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