Research Article

Analysis of everyday life and everyday resistance of the housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006)

Number: 25 December 21, 2021
  • Gözde Han *
  • Nalan Turna
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Analysis of everyday life and everyday resistance of the housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006)

Abstract

Sociologists of everyday life have regenerated the notion of everyday with creative potential, especially after the 1970s. The ability to make the familiar unfamiliar has posited everyday life studies with multifaceted realities which can embrace the human situation of emancipation and oppression. The mundane reality of everyday life practices is freighted with power and resistance. Therefore, everyday life practices have to be scrutinized as they have become a site upon which agency is situated. In this sense, the sphere of everyday life can be regarded as a space of exploitation and liberation at the same time. The power relations in everyday life practices conceptualize the notion in a contested manner; thus, resistance. The present paper will analyze the everyday life practices of housewives in the suburb of London to discover the resistance and the possibility of emancipation narrated in the novel Arlington Park (2006) written by Rachel Cusk. The analysis here is based on Henri Lefebvre’s theorization of the notion in a dialectical manner, suggesting that it can be both oppressive and liberative. Discovering the potential everyday holds for the housewives accentuates the value of domestic labor in transforming the female actors. In this sense, Michel de Certeau’s celebration of everyday as a sphere of resistance will be taken into account in analyzing the resistant activities of the housewives in the abovementioned novel. This paper proposes the possibility of emancipation for the housewives who carry out their everyday practices by situating the notion of everyday as a mediator space.

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References

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  3. Cusk, R. (2006). Arlington Park. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  4. De Certeau, M. (1980). Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press.
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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Publication Date

December 21, 2021

Submission Date

November 2, 2021

Acceptance Date

December 20, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Number: 25

APA
Han, G., & Turna, N. (2021). Analysis of everyday life and everyday resistance of the housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006). RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 25, 1045-1054. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1036610
AMA
1.Han G, Turna N. Analysis of everyday life and everyday resistance of the housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006). RumeliDE. 2021;(25):1045-1054. doi:10.29000/rumelide.1036610
Chicago
Han, Gözde, and Nalan Turna. 2021. “Analysis of Everyday Life and Everyday Resistance of the Housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006)”. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, nos. 25: 1045-54. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1036610.
EndNote
Han G, Turna N (December 1, 2021) Analysis of everyday life and everyday resistance of the housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006). RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 25 1045–1054.
IEEE
[1]G. Han and N. Turna, “Analysis of everyday life and everyday resistance of the housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006)”, RumeliDE, no. 25, pp. 1045–1054, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.29000/rumelide.1036610.
ISNAD
Han, Gözde - Turna, Nalan. “Analysis of Everyday Life and Everyday Resistance of the Housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006)”. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 25 (December 1, 2021): 1045-1054. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1036610.
JAMA
1.Han G, Turna N. Analysis of everyday life and everyday resistance of the housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006). RumeliDE. 2021;:1045–1054.
MLA
Han, Gözde, and Nalan Turna. “Analysis of Everyday Life and Everyday Resistance of the Housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006)”. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 25, Dec. 2021, pp. 1045-54, doi:10.29000/rumelide.1036610.
Vancouver
1.Gözde Han, Nalan Turna. Analysis of everyday life and everyday resistance of the housewives in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (2006). RumeliDE. 2021 Dec. 1;(25):1045-54. doi:10.29000/rumelide.1036610