Direnç Anlatıları: H. M. Naqvi’nin Home Boy Adlı Eserinin İncelenmesi

Year 2019, Issue: 42, 55 - 72, 25.12.2019

Fikret Güven

https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.675018

Abstract

Bu çalışma, H. M. Naqvi’nin Home Boy adlı eserini Amerikan İmparatorluğu’na 11 Eylül ve terörizm ile ilgili Batı söylemindeki Oryantalizme karşı cevap veren bir direnç anlatısı olarak incelemektedir. Naqvi, romanında “öteki” ve klişeleştirme ile ilgili Oryantalist söylemi analiz etmeye, tanımlamaya, problemize etmeye ve dengesizleştirmeye çalışmaktadır. Anlatı, Amerikan emperyalizmine, savaşçı dış politikasına, Üçüncü Dünya ülkelerinin baskı altında tutulmasına, sömürülmesine, diğer ülkelere müdahalesine, yabancı toprakları işgaline karşı bir protesto anlatısıdır. Anlatı, kahramanın refah, mutluluk ve özgürlük rüyasının peşinde koştuğu tipik bir göçmen anlatısı olarak başlar. Başlangıçta, kahraman prestijli bir Amerikan eğitimi ve metropolde büyük finansal kurumlarda kazançlı istihdamın getirdiği ekonomik ve sosyal imtiyazlardan faydalanma umuduyla özümseyici ve uzlaşmacı eğilimler sergiler. Fakat, 11 Eylül olayları, kahramının yabancı ve düşman olarak gördüğü ve zaten mevcut olan ürkütücü ayrımcılık atmosferi ile karşılaşmasıyla, bu ayrımcılık daha da şiddenlenmektedir.

Keywords

Şarkıyatçılık, oksidantalizm, 11 Eylül Romanları, direnç öyküleri

Resistance Narratives: A study of H. M. Naqvi’s Home Boy

Abstract

The present paper analyzes H. M. Naqvi’s Home Boy as counter-narrative to Orientalism in Western discourse that writes back to the American Empire apropos September 11 and terrorism. Naqvi tries to analyze, describe, problematize and destabilize Orientalist discourse of “othering” a and “stereotyping” The narrative protests against American imperialism—its belligerent foreign policy, its suppression and exploitation of third world countries, interference in other countries, and occupation and invasion of foreign lands. The narrative starts as a typical immigrant narrative in which the protagonist comes to the United States in pursuit of the American dream of prosperity, happiness and freedoms. Initially, the protagonist has assimilative and accommodative tendencies in the hopes of partaking in the economic and social privileges bestowed by a prestigious American education and lucrative employment in big financial institutions in the metropolis. However, the events of September 11 exacerbate an already precarious atmosphere of discrimination that exists in the novel in which their protagonist is treated as an outsider and enemy.

Keywords

Orientalism, occidentalism, September 11 Novels, resistance narratives

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