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Martin Amis’in Night Train Adlı Romanı’nda Kültürel Anlaşılabilirlik ve Kişisel Performans

Year 2018, Issue: 6, 36 - 52, 25.11.2019

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İngiliz
Romancı Kingsley Amis’in oğlu Martin Amis, Çağdaş İngiliz Romanı’nın en çok
tanınan temsilcilerindendir ve Time
dergisinin “All-TIME 100 Novels” (Tüm Zamanların En İyi 100 Romanı)” ve The Guardian gazetesinin “The 100 Best
Novels Written in English” (İngilizce Yazılmış En İyi 100 Roman)” ile “The 100
Greatest Novels of All Time” (Tüm Zamanların En İyi 100 Romanı)” listelerine
girmeyi başaran Money adlı romanı
gibi bir çok önemli eseri Çağdaş İngiliz Edebiyatı’na kazandırmış bir yazardır.
Martin Amis’in 1997 yılında yazdığı roman Night
Train
Amis’in bu roman öncesinde yazmış olduğu eserlerle
karşılaştırıldığında onlardan tarz ve anlatım olarak çok farklıdır. Eserdeki
kahramanın karakterize ediliş şekli bu eseri ilginç kılan en önemli
özelliklerdendir. Roman, her ne kadar bir davanın peşinde bir detektifi anlatsa
da bu kadın detektifin eserde resmedilişi, detektif romanı türünün
alışılagelmiş yazın tarzlarıyla karşılaştırıldığında bu türden oldukça
farklıdır. Geleneksel bir şekilde maskülen bir çevre olarak karakterize edilmiş
emniyet teşkilatında kadın bir detektif olarak var olma mücadelesi veren ana karakter
hem içinde yaşadığı erkek egemen toplumun hem de çalıştığı bu çevrenin
baskıları altındadır. Bu bağlamda, çalışmanın amacı, Michel Foucault ve Judith
Butler’ın özellikle bireylerin sınıflandırılması, katmanlandırılması ve
hiyerarşik bir ilişki yapısı oluşturularak kadınların böylece boyun eğdirilmesi
üzerine olan teorilerinden de faydalanarak Night
Train
’deki ana kahraman karakterinin irdelenmesini ve erkek egemen
toplumlarda baskıcı kültürel beklentilere bu kahraman tarafından nasıl karşı
konulduğunu incelemektir.

References

  • Amis, M. 1997. Night Train. USA: Harmony Books.
  • Butler, J. 2006. Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge.
  • Butler, J. 1986. "Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex." Yale French Studies, No. 72 Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century 35-49.
  • Diedrick, J. 1995. Understanding Martin Amis. South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press.
  • Finney, B. 2008. Martin Amis. New York: Routledge.
  • Foucault, M. 1995. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Edited by Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books.
  • ---. 1978. The History of Sexuality: Volume 1. Düzenleyen: Translated by R. Hurley. New York: Pantheon.
  • ---. 1982. «The Subject and Power.» Critical Inquiry 8 (4): 777-795.
  • “Womb”. 2019. Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary. September 13. Accessed September 2019. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/womb.
  • Walter, N. 1997. If You Have Tears to Shed, Prepare to Shed Them - in a Martin Amis Novel. September 11. Accessed Jun, 21 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/books/1997/sep/11/fiction.martinamis.

Cultural Intelligibility and the Individual Performance in Martin Amis’s Night Train

Year 2018, Issue: 6, 36 - 52, 25.11.2019

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Martin
Amis, the son of the well-known English novelist Kingsley Amis, is one of the
most celebrated novelists of the contemporary English novel and he has written
quite impressive books like Money
which has been in the list, “All-TIME 100 Novels” by Time, and has been added to the lists, “The 100 Best Novels Written
in English” and “The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time” of The Guardian. His 1997 novel, Night
Train
is quite different in style and narration compared to his previous
work, yet it is a significant piece of work because of the remarkable
characterization of a protagonist. Although the novel features a detective and
the plot is constructed around a process of resolving a case, the portrayal of
the woman detective is different from the generic conventions of the genre, the
detective novel. As a woman struggling to survive in a traditionally masculine
environment, the police force, the protagonist of the novel has to face a great
deal of oppression both because of her profession and the patriarchal
environment she lives in. Hence, by drawing attention to the theories of Michel
Foucault and Judith Butler, particularly those about the traditional
classification and stratification of individuals based on gender or sex in
order to subjugate them after constructing a hierarchical relationship, the
purpose of this study is to explore the characterization of the protagonist of Night Train to point out how the oppressive
cultural expectations and traditions of patriarchal societies are challenged
and also subverted in a work of fiction. 



References

  • Amis, M. 1997. Night Train. USA: Harmony Books.
  • Butler, J. 2006. Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge.
  • Butler, J. 1986. "Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex." Yale French Studies, No. 72 Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century 35-49.
  • Diedrick, J. 1995. Understanding Martin Amis. South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press.
  • Finney, B. 2008. Martin Amis. New York: Routledge.
  • Foucault, M. 1995. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Edited by Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books.
  • ---. 1978. The History of Sexuality: Volume 1. Düzenleyen: Translated by R. Hurley. New York: Pantheon.
  • ---. 1982. «The Subject and Power.» Critical Inquiry 8 (4): 777-795.
  • “Womb”. 2019. Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary. September 13. Accessed September 2019. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/womb.
  • Walter, N. 1997. If You Have Tears to Shed, Prepare to Shed Them - in a Martin Amis Novel. September 11. Accessed Jun, 21 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/books/1997/sep/11/fiction.martinamis.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Creative Arts and Writing
Journal Section Research Article
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Mustafa Güneş 0000-0002-0826-9472

Publication Date November 25, 2019
Submission Date September 26, 2019
Published in Issue Year 2018 Issue: 6

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Chicago Güneş, Mustafa. “Cultural Intelligibility and the Individual Performance in Martin Amis’s Night Train”. KARE, no. 6 (November 2019): 36-52.

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