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Kıyamet Sonrası Dünyada Kırılgan Aile Bağları: Maggie Gee’nin Buz İnsanlar’ı

Year 2025, Issue: 24, 63 - 76, 10.03.2025
https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1612862

Abstract

Çağdaş edebiyat dünyasında kıyamet sonrası kurgu, çevresel felaketlerin sonuçlarıyla yüzleşen insan ruhunun derinlemesine incelenmesine hizmet etmektedir. Bu tür anlatılar, özellikle de iklim değişikliğinin harap ettiği bir geleceği tasvir edenler, bizi ekolojik krizlerin kaçınılmazlığı ve acil cevap ihtiyacıyla yüzleşmeye zorlamaktadır. Buz İnsanlar, dondurucu ortamda hayatta kalmaya çalışan bir ailenin ve “buz insanlar” adlı bir topluluğun hikayesini anlatmaktadır. Roman, kıyamet sonrası bir dünyada iklim değişikliği karşısında insan ruhunun direncini gözler önüne seriyor. Romanın anlatıcısı Saul, oğluyla olan mücadelesini, karısıyla olan ilişkisini ve içinde yaşadığı kıyamet sonrası toplumu anlatıyor. Bu bağlamda, bu makale Maggie Gee’nin Buz İnsanlar romanında canlı bir şekilde gösterildiği gibi, kıyamet sonrası bir toplumun sert gerçekliğinde aile etkileşimlerinin karmaşıklığını incelemektedir. Çağdaş Antroposen teorilerine dayanan bu çalışma, Gee’nin Buzdan İnsanlar romanını Antroposen kurgusu yapan belirli özellikleri açısından incelemeyi amaçlamakta ve hem uyarıcı hem de bir dayanıklılık incelemesi olan bir hikaye sunarak, iklim kaynaklı felaketin aydınlattığı bir geleceğe eleştirel bir bakış açısı sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Ayrıca, bu makale, çevresel bozulma, toplumsal ve siyasi sistemlerin çöküşü ve teknolojinin yıkıcı potansiyeli gibi birbiriyle ilişkili temaları örneklendirerek, Gee’nin çevresel adalet için daha kapsayıcı ve eşitlikçi bir yaklaşımı nasıl savunduğunu araştırmaktadır. Buz İnsanlar, doğal dünya ile ilişkimizi yeniden değerlendirmeyi teşvik ediyor ve insan dışı dünya ile daha sürdürülebilir bir birlikteliğin gerekliliğini vurgulamaktadır.

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Fragile Family Bonds in A Post-Apocalyptic World: Maggie Gee's The Ice People

Year 2025, Issue: 24, 63 - 76, 10.03.2025
https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1612862

Abstract

In the world of contemporary literature, post-apocalyptic fiction embodies a thorough investigation of the human spirit confronted with the aftermath of environmental disasters. Such narratives, particularly those that depict a future devastated by climate change, force us to confront the inevitability of ecological crises and the urgent need for answers. The Ice People tells the story of a family along with a community called “the ice people” trying to survive in the freezing environment. The novel demonstrates the persistence of the human spirit in the face of climate change in a post-apocalyptic world. The narrator of the novel, Saul, describes his struggles with his son, his relationship with his wife, and his living condition in the post-apocalyptic society. Within this perspective, this article examines the complexities of family interactions in the harsh reality of a post-apocalyptic society, as vividly shown in Maggie Gee’s The Ice People. Drawing on contemporary Anthropocene studies, this study aims to investigate Gee’s The Ice People in terms of the specific characteristics that define it as Anthropocene fiction and intends to serve as a critical perspective on human relationships in times of disaster. Furthermore, the article explores how Gee advocates for a more inclusive and equitable approach to environmental justice by illustrating the interrelated themes of environmental degradation, the failure of social and political systems, and the destructive potential of technology. The Ice People encourages a reevaluation of human’s relationship with the natural world and emphasizes the necessity for a more sustainable co-existence with the nonhuman world.

References

  • Albrecht, Glenn (2017). “Solastalgia and the New Mourning”. Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief. Eds. Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 292–315.
  • Baysal, Kübra (2022). “Anthropogenic Worlds of Transformation and Destruction: Doris Lessing’s Climate Fiction Duology”. Jednak Książki: Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne, 15: 31–50.
  • Dillon, Sarah (2007). “Imagining Apocalypse: Maggie Gee’s The Flood”. Contemporary Literature, 48(3): 374–397.
  • Düzgün, Şebnem (2018). “Maggie Gee’nin The Ice People ve The Flood Adlı Eserlerinde Bilim ve Toplum”. Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi, 19(43): 61–75.
  • Gee, Maggie (2008). The Ice People. Telegram Books.
  • Kricher, John (2009). The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth. Princeton University Press.
  • Maczynska, Magdalena (2023). “Return of the ‘Savage’ in Contemporary Climate Fiction”. Green Letters, 27(2): 163–175.
  • Özyurt Kılıç, Mine (2012). Maggie Gee: Writing the Condition-of-England Novel. A&C Black.
  • Pitetti, Connor (2017). “Uses of the End of the World: Apocalypse and Postapocalypse as Narrative Modes”. Science Fiction Studies, 44(3): 437–454.
  • Şencan, Selin (2024). “Mapping Traumatized Bodies and Territories in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann: An Adventure”. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, June, 1–12.
  • Streeby, Shelley (2018). Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism. University of California Press.
  • Strizova, Tereza (2016). Ecological Dystopia in Contemporary British Literature. MA Thesis. Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
  • Trexler, Adam (2015). Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change. University of Virginia Press.
  • Watkins, Susan (2020). Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Wheeler, Pat (2013). “‘Another Generation Cometh’: Apocalyptic Endings and New Beginnings in Science Fictional New London(s)”. Critical Survey, 25(2): 57–70.
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Primary Language English
Subjects British and Irish Language, Literature and Culture
Journal Section Research Articles
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Azade Göktürk 0009-0000-8532-8838

Publication Date March 10, 2025
Submission Date January 3, 2025
Acceptance Date February 13, 2025
Published in Issue Year 2025 Issue: 24

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APA Göktürk, A. (2025). Fragile Family Bonds in A Post-Apocalyptic World: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People. Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi(24), 63-76. https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1612862
AMA Göktürk A. Fragile Family Bonds in A Post-Apocalyptic World: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People. KAD. March 2025;(24):63-76. doi:10.46250/kulturder.1612862
Chicago Göktürk, Azade. “Fragile Family Bonds in A Post-Apocalyptic World: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People”. Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 24 (March 2025): 63-76. https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1612862.
EndNote Göktürk A (March 1, 2025) Fragile Family Bonds in A Post-Apocalyptic World: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People. Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 24 63–76.
IEEE A. Göktürk, “Fragile Family Bonds in A Post-Apocalyptic World: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People”, KAD, no. 24, pp. 63–76, March 2025, doi: 10.46250/kulturder.1612862.
ISNAD Göktürk, Azade. “Fragile Family Bonds in A Post-Apocalyptic World: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People”. Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 24 (March 2025), 63-76. https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1612862.
JAMA Göktürk A. Fragile Family Bonds in A Post-Apocalyptic World: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People. KAD. 2025;:63–76.
MLA Göktürk, Azade. “Fragile Family Bonds in A Post-Apocalyptic World: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People”. Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 24, 2025, pp. 63-76, doi:10.46250/kulturder.1612862.
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