Research Article

Polyphony in Assia Djebar’s novel entitled Women Without A Grave: Me and the other

Number: 17 December 21, 2019
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Polyphony in Assia Djebar’s novel entitled Women Without A Grave: Me and the other

Abstract

In the book titled Woman Without a grave of Assia Djebar, which is the subject of our study, the narrator tells the story of an Algerian women Suleyha - also her own neighbour - who established a network of resistance against French sovereignty. The narrator presents to the reader the history narrated between reality and fiction. The author, who is the utterer of the enunciation undertake the enunciation and she also hand the narration to the protagonist Süleyha and other women who lived with her. This triple axis formed by the complex structure of the autobiography / life story / fiction unveil different subjects in different enunciation levels. When the author, who is the actual subject of the work, assigns others subjects to assume the narration, the reader enters into the meaning universe of every different woman who takes over the history and says “I”. As the identities of the “I” change, the identity of the “other” changes and the balance of the spheres of existence changes. Both the visual, auditory and literary art texts, the semiotic methods and enunciation theory studies that enable us to reach the possibilities of meaning offered by the work, the studies on the subject, which has brought us today, constitute the methodological basis of this study, which consists of the subjects we encounter in every layer of the sentence. In our study, we aim to examine this altered structure that emerges in the superficial and deep structure of the narrative by putting polyphony notion and the subject at the centre. Therefore, in the light of the polyphony principle and the work of these theories, we aim to reveal the changeable structure of different subjects that emerge in different layers of the work. Afterwards, we aim to shed light on the observations that the subjects have a common meaning field from different meaning fields as the narrative progresses by revealing the figurative/thematic roles of these subjects taking on discourse in different layers.

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

Creative Arts and Writing

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 21, 2019

Submission Date

October 10, 2019

Acceptance Date

December 20, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Number: 17

APA
Gürses Şanbay, S. (2019). Assia Djebar’ın Mezarı Olmayan Kadın adlı yapıtında çokseslilik: Ben ve öteki. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 17, 461-468. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.657925