KURMACADA KUIR'IN KANONLAŞMASI: ALAN HOLLINGHURST'ÜN İNGİLİZ ROMANINDAKİ YERİ

Year 2020, Issue: 38, 87 - 98, 29.01.2020

Gökçen Ezber

https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.648454

Abstract

Aşağıda sunulan makale, İngiliz
romancı Alan Hollinghurst’ün kurmacasını, eşcinsellik temalarını irdeleyen modern
İngiliz romanında bir bağlama oturtmayı amaçlamaktadır. Çalışma, E.M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood ve Ronald Firbank’ın romanlarını
inceleyerek, Alan Hollinghurst’ün romanlarında işlenen temalarla bağlar
kuracaktır. Bu karşılaştırma, İngiliz romanında eşcinselliğin ve kuir
karakterlerin betimlenme biçimindeki evrimi açığa çıkaracaktır. Kendisinden önceki
yazarlardan farklı olarak, Hollinghurst eşcinselliğe sadece gizlenmesi ya da
açıklanması beklenen bir kimlik olarak değil, metinsel bir olgu olarak
bakmaktadır. Hollinghurst, eşcinsel kimliği ve karakteri anlamada daha geniş
bir çerçeve çizmektedir. Hollinghurst’ün kurmacasının, İngiliz romanında,
eşcinsel karakteri bir dışlanmışlık nedeni olarak değil, daha geniş bir insanlık
deneyimi ve kimliği olarak gören bir ‘kuir’ kanon oluşturduğu söylenebilir.

Keywords

Alan Hollinghurst, Modern İngiliz Romanı, Kuir Kuram, Toplumsal Cinsiyet

CANONIZING QUEER IN FICTION: THE PLACE OF ALAN HOLLINGHURST IN THE BRITISH NOVEL

Abstract

The present study aims
at contextualizing the British novelist Alan Hollinghurst’s fiction in the modern
British Novel dealing with themes of homosexuality. The study will focus on the
novels of E.M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood and Ronald Firbank and relate them
to the novels of Alan Hollinghurst. Such a comparison will shed light on the
evolution of themes of homosexuality and the depiction of queer characters in the
British novel. Different from his predecessors, Hollinghurst focuses on homosexuality
not only as a concealed or revealed identity, but as a textual phenomenon.
Thus, Hollinghurst offers a wider fictional realm for the understanding of
homosexual selfhood and identity. It could be argued that Hollinghurst’s
fiction builds up a ‘queer’ canon in British fiction that deals with the homosexual
experience not as a reason for alienation, but as a lens which opens up to a wider
human experience and identity.

Keywords

Alan Hollinghurst, Modern British Novel, Queer Theory, Gender

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