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DÖVÜŞ KULÜBÜ VE BİR ADAM UYKUDA ESERLERİNDE ERKEK ALANININ KARŞILAŞTIRMALI OLARAK İNCELENMESİ

Year 2016, Issue: 36, 139 - 156, 23.12.2016
https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.284995

Abstract

1960 yıllara girişle birlikte, sosyo-politik değişimlerin yarattığı dönüşüm
yaşamın her alanında post modernism olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Sanat, tarih,
felsefe, sosyoloji ve pek çok alanda yansımalarına tanık olunan bu dönemde
elbette edebiyat eserleri de bu yeni döngüye kapılmış ve değişime aynalık
etmiştir. Sadece Amerika’yı değil Avrupa’yı da etkisi altına alan bu dönem
insan yaşamının değişim karşısında sergilemiş olduğu psikolojik ve fiziksel
savaşı edebiyat eserleri yoluyla ustaca yansıtmıştır. Amerikalı yazar Chuck
Palahniuk ve Fransız yazar George Perec kurmaca düzlemde post modern yaşamı en
etkili biçimde yansıtanların başında gelmektedir. Yeni dünya düzeninde
monotonluk, yalnızlık, depresyon ve stres ile çarpışmak zorunda kalan bireyi
başarıyla yansıtmışlar ve adeta döneme ışık tutmuşlardır. Perec ve Palahniuk’u
dönemin yazarlarından ayıran en önemli nokta ise eserlerinde erkek bedeni ve
ruhunu odağa alarak dönemin psikolojik bir açılımını gerçekleştirmiş
olmalarıdır. İki eserin karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmesi Amerikan ve Fransız
toplumu arasında bir köprü kurarak farklı coğrafyalardan, farklı zaman
dilimlerinden, farklı kültürler üzerinden okuyucuya ışık tutmaktadır. İki adsız
kahramanın kahve, televizyon, alışveriş, uyu, uykusuzluk, depresyon, şizofreni
ve yalnızlık ile kesişen yaşamları okuyucunun içsel sesine kulak vererek az ya
da çok kendi yaşamından bir parça bulabileceği bir düzleme kucak açar. Kurgusal
düzlemde pek çok kültürel kod ve temel yapı taşları ile yansıtılan hikâyeler
günümüz dünyasında erkek olarak verilen mücadelenin yansıması haline
gelmektedir. Bu açıdan bakıldığında psikolojik ve sosyolojik olarak ‘erkek
karakter’ olmaktan öte insan olmanın zorlukları aktarılmaktadır. Tarihsel süreç
içerisinde Amerikan ve Fransız toplumu üzerinden yansıtılan hikâyeler
küreselleşen dünyada her birimizin hikâyesine dönüşür.

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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MALE SETTING IN THE FIGHT CLUB AND A MAN ASLEEP

Year 2016, Issue: 36, 139 - 156, 23.12.2016
https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.284995

Abstract

The twentieth century postmodern world not only created an era of a
decentered way of life but also tremendously triggered a decentered literary
style that somehow achieves to encompass the entire story of human life.
Although the term postmodern seems to be a broad concept that has different
effects in different geographies, it magically succeeds to unite differences
and reflect a common story behind a veil. Chuck Palahniuk’s The Fight Club (1999) and George Perec’s
A Man Asleep (1967) are marvelous
examples for that. While Palahniuk’s story is the voice of the reflections of
postmodern human life in the United States, therefore American postmodern
literature, Perec’s story becomes the voice of postmodern human life in France.
Although two works signify different geographies, a comparative analysis of
these works highlight the reality that two different cultures are bounded with
each other in terms of the literary concepts; ‘daily life;’ ‘sleep,’ ‘headache
– pain,’ ‘depression,’ ‘addiction,’ ‘the double’ and ‘the notion of success.’
Perec’s and Palahniuk’s nameless characters’ lives surrounded by cultural codes
of abundance at first sight, which later became their captivity that triggers
either depression or schizophrenia. At this point, a comparative analysis that
acts as a bridge between two different cultures and geographies postulate the
idea that in the postmodern world of fragmentation, comparative literature
achieves to form a web of wholeness which helps the reader to develop a
cultural, historical, social and psychological analysis of stories which are
the stories of all of us.

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  • BENJAMIN, Walter (1969). The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. In Illuminations. trans. H. Zohn. New York: Schocken Books. pp. 219-54.
  • BIGNELL, Jonathan (2000). Postmodern Media Culture. Edinbug: Edinburg University Press.
  • EAGLETON, Terry (2000). The Idea of Culture. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • ECO, Umberto (1987). Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage. In Travels in Hyperreality. trans. W. Weaver. London: Picador. pp. 197-211.
  • EWEN, Stuart & EWEN, Elizabeth (1982). Channels of Desire. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • FEATHERSTONE, Mike (1991). Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. London: Sage.
  • FOUCAULT, Michael (1986). ‘Of Other Spaces’. In Diacritics (16): 22-27.
  • FROSH, Stephen (1987). The Politics of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Freudian and Post-Freudian Theory. New Heaven: Yale University Press.
  • GOTTDIENER, Mark (1995). Postmodern Semiotics. Material Culture and the Forms of Postmodern Life. Oxford, Blackwell.
  • GROSSBERG, Lawrence & Wartella, Ellen et al. (2006). Media Making. Mass Media in a Popular Culture. Sage: Thousand Oaks.
  • JAMESON, Frederick (1979). ‘Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture’. Social Text (1): 130-148.
  • JAMESON, Frederick (1984). Postmodernism and the Consumer Society. In H. Foster (ed.), Postmodern Culture. London: Pluto Press.
  • KRISTEVA, Julia (1987). In the Beginning Was Love; Psychoanalysis and Faith. trans. A. Gold-Hammer. New York: Columbia U.P.
  • PALAHNIUK, Chuck (2006). Fight Club. London: Vintage.
  • PEREC, George (1990). Things a Story of the Sixties. A Man Asleep. trans. David Bellos and Andrew Leak. Boston: Verba Mundi.
  • SCARRY, Elaine (1985). The Body in Pain. The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford U.P.
  • SONTAG, Susan (2003). Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador.
  • SUE, Roger (1991). “Leisure”. Handbook of French Popular Culture. ed. Pierre L Horn. Westport: Greenwood. pp.113-137.
  • SUSMAN, Warren (1984). Culture as History. New York: Pantheon.
  • WILLIAMS, Raymond (1976). Keywords. London: Fontana.
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Articles
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Esin Kumlu

Publication Date December 23, 2016
Submission Date September 29, 2016
Published in Issue Year 2016 Issue: 36

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APA Kumlu, E. (2016). A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MALE SETTING IN THE FIGHT CLUB AND A MAN ASLEEP. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi(36), 139-156. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.284995

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