Cornel West’in ‘Afro-Amerikan Entelektüeller’ İçin Politikaları Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Year 2017, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 78 - 89, 30.11.2017

Çelik Ekmekçi

Abstract

Çokkültürlülük bu çalışmada hedef
teorik-edebi kuram olup ‘Afro-Amerikan Entelektüellerin’ politikaları ve
içerikleri Cornel West’in “Farklılığın Yeni Kültürel Politikaları” (“New Cultural
Politics of Difference”) adlı makalesi üzerinden temel argüman olarak
incelenecektir. Bu sebeple West’in ‘Afro-Amerikan Entelektüellerinin’
çokkültürlülük özelliklerini sağlayıp sağlamadığı bu çalışmanın amacı olarak gösterilecektir.
Ayrıca West’in politik tavrı, Afro-Amerikan Entelektüeller tarafından yazılan
edebi eserlerde incelenecektir. Böylece, bahsedilen özellikler West’in
Afro-Amerikan Entelektüelleri üzerinden teorik ve akademik kaynaklar
çerçevesinde çalışılacak olup birincil edebi kaynaklar Alice Walker’ın The Color Purple, ve Toni Morrison’un Sula adlı eserleridir.  

Keywords

Çokkültürlülük, Afro-Amerikan Entelektüeller, Afro-Amerikan Feminizm, Cornel West, Sula

A Critique of Cornel West’s Politics For ‘Black Intellectuals’

Abstract

In this study, multiculturalism is going to be the target literary- theoretical discipline in scrutinising the politics of ‘Black Intellectuals’ whose principles and characteristics are going to be discussed in terms of the consistency of the main argument pointed out by Cornel West in his article entitled: “New Cultural Politics of Difference.” Thereby, the intended purpose will be aimed to be discussed whether West’s politics for Black Intellectuals, whose features are produced under multicultural characteristics, are provided and represented or not? Furthermore, West’s political attitude is scrutinised in the samples of literature written by ‘Black Intellectuals.’ Therefore, these characteristics, attributed to West’s Black Intellectuals, are going to be analysed through variety of theoretical and academic sources. The primary literary sources will be Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison’s Sula.

Keywords

Multiculturalism, Black Intellectuals, Black Feminism, Cornel West, Sula

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