Multiculturalism in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and E. M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread

Year 2021, Volume: 22 Issue: 1, 11 - 30, 20.06.2021

Elif Derya Şenduran

https://doi.org/10.17494/ogusbd.952720

Abstract

Bu makalenin amacı, karakterlerin yaşam tarzları, dil, milletler arası evlenme, özgürlüğün idaresi, kültürel uygulamalar bağlamında, çokkültürlülüğün, Büyük ve Küçük Antiller ve İngiltere’de, yirminci yüz yılın karmaşasında geçen, Jean Rhys’ın Geniş Geniş Bir Deniz romanı ve Monteriano ve Sawston’da geçen E. M. Forster’ın Meleklerin Uğramadığı Yer romanlarında, nasıl ele alındığını, karşılaştırmaktır. Çok kültürlü toplumlarda, Forster humanist bakış açısını sorgulayarak ikili zıtlıkları açıklamakta, Rhys ise kölelik sonrası dönemdeki yıkıma odaklanmaktadır. Dolayısıyla karakterlerin önyargıları, değerleri, sosyal entegrasyon olan, milletler arası evlilik ve göçe karşıt oluşturur. Kültürel çeşitliliği olan toplumlar, yirminci yüzyılda azınlıkları kendi kültürlerine entegre etmek için hüküm süren kültürün zorlayıcı uygulamalarına maruz kalırlar. Bu makale, diğer bir değişle, önyargının ve kültürel entegrasyonun reddini bu iki romanda, şemsiye terim olan çokkültürlülüğün altında inceler.

Keywords

Çokkültürlülük, Geniş Geniş Bir Deniz, Meleklerin Uğramadığı Bir Yer, Sosyal Entegrasyon, Dil

Multiculturalism in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and E. M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread

Abstract

The aim of this article is to compare and contrast how multiculturalism is handled in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and E. M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread regard-ing the lifestyles of the characters, language, intermar-riage, management of freedom, the cultural practices in the West Indies, and Monteriano Italy, within the tumul-tuous time of the twentieth century. In multicultural societies, Forster elucidates cross-binaries questing hu-manistic views whereas Rhys focuses on subversion of the post-slavery era. In both novels, the characters’ prejudic-es, values run counter to the practices of social integra-tion such as intermarriages, immigration. The culturally diverse societies undergo the dominant culture’s en-forced practices to integrate minorities into their own culture in the twentieth century. Thus, this article ex-plores the denial of prejudice, the denial of cultural integration under the umbrella term multiculturalism in these two novels.

Keywords

Wide Sargasso Sea, Where Angels Fear to Tread, multiculturalism, social integration, language

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