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Jeanette Winterson’un Taş Tanrılar’ı: Postmodern Bir Uyarı

Year 2012, Volume: 11 Issue: 3, 975 - 983, 01.12.2012

Abstract

Jeanette Winterson 2007 tarihli Taş Tanrılar adlı romanında dünyanın yaklaşmakta olan sonunu ekolojik olarak değerlendirirken aynı zamanda insanlık durumunu analiz eder. Taş Tanrılar, Winterson’un 2005 yılında çıkardığı, uzay ve evren ilişkisine göndermeler yaptığı Ağırlık adlı romanının devamı gibi okunabilir. Taş Tanrılar, yapı olarak ne kadar postmodern gibi dursa da aslında bir yanıyla insanlık durumuna, insanın kaybolan hayallerine, gelecek umutlarına ve gerçeklik algısına, diğer yanıyla da dünyamızın bozulmakta olan ekolojik dengesine bir ağıt niteliğindedir. Romanda, uzak bir gelecekte yaşayan Orbus diyarının sakinleri gayri insani özellikleriyle betimlenir. Bu insanlar için yaşlanma sadece DNA’da görülen bir sistem hatasıdır ve kolaylıkla onarılabilir. Bu çalışma Winterson’un postmodern yüzeyselliğe, görüntü saplantısına, umut eksikliğine, bellek ve vicdan yitimine bakışını incelemeyi hedeflemektedir. Romanın postmodern, parodik ve oyunbaz yapısının altında gizlenen yergi unsurlarına ve yeni milenyum insanına yaptığı eleştirilere de ışık tutulacaktır

References

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Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods: A Postmodern Warning

Year 2012, Volume: 11 Issue: 3, 975 - 983, 01.12.2012

Abstract

Jeanette Winterson attempts to provoke a new consciousness of existence in her 2007 novel The Stone Gods and stir the masses to re-evaluate the human condition under the encroaching shadow of death awaiting our mother earth. The Stone Gods can be read as the continuation of her 2005 novel Weight where she already implied an alternative perception of space/universe. Along with its apparent postmodern tissue, The Stone Gods offers a lament for the human condition which is acutely suffering from the deprivation of dreams, future hopes and sense of reality on one hand, the ongoing corruption of our ecological system on the other. In the novel the citizens of Orbus (an unknown future world) are presented as dehumanized figures for whom “age is only an information failure” stemming from the body’s loss of fluency, nerve disconnection and cell mutation occuring in DNA nucleus.This paper aims at analysing how Winterson detects the postmodern superficiality, obsession with appearance, lack of hope, memory and conscience in The Stone Gods which, contrary to being a postmodern text, concentrates on giving a moral message with its satiric as well as parodic double voice about the changing experience of ageing for man and mother earth in the new millenium

References

  • Baudrillard, J. (1988). America. Trans. Chris Turner. London: Verso, 1988.
  • Baudrillard, J. (1991). Simulacra and Simulation. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. USA: The University of Michigan Press.
  • Baudrillard, J. (1996). The System of Objects. London: Verso, 1996.
  • Dennison, M. (2011). The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson. Book Review.
  • www.timesonline.com.uk accessed on 29.03.2011
  • Ortega y Gasset, J. (1961). The Revolt of the Masses. London: Unwin Books.
  • Harraway, D. J. (1991). Simians, Cyborgs and Woman: The Reinvention of Nature. London: Free Association Books.
  • Kellner, D, (1989). Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Lyotard, J.F.( 1998). The Inhuman: Reflections on Time. Trans. Geoffrey Bennington&Rachel Bowlby. UK: Polity Press.
  • Pefanis, J. (1991). Heterology and the Postmodern. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
  • Winterson, J. (2007). The Stone Gods. London: Harcourt Inc.
  • Winterson, J. (2011).On The Stone Gods, on her webpage: Accessed on: 29.03.2011 http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=471
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Other ID JA33BH82VT
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Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu This is me

Publication Date December 1, 2012
Submission Date December 1, 2012
Published in Issue Year 2012 Volume: 11 Issue: 3

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APA Antakyalıoğlu, Z. (2012). Jeanette Winterson’un Taş Tanrılar’ı: Postmodern Bir Uyarı. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 11(3), 975-983.