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A POSTPATRIARCHAL VISION: TRANSMODERN THEMES OF UNITY, GENDER EQUALITY, AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THE PERFECT NINE

Year 2024, Volume: 9 Issue: 3, 1414 - 1428, 31.12.2024
https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.1544860

Abstract

This article aims to offer a transmodern analysis of the epic poem by Kenyan novelist, academic, and author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who is often considered a strong contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, with the author’s particular focus on feminism, unity, and critique of imperialism and Eurocentrism. In this effort, the study underscores the author’s emphasis on the significance of unity with nature, globalization, sustainability, and family values regarding transmodern philosophy. During a significant paradigm shift in the relationship between science, ethics, and society, some contemporary writers and theorists introduced “transmodernity,” a new philosophical and cultural term that aims to surpass and integrate elements of modernism and postmodernism. Transmodernism redefines and provides solutions to complex and contemporary fundamental perspectives on people’s beliefs, cultures, economies, and politics. Considering this information, this study aims to analyse The Perfect Nine through a transmodernist lens, which encompasses all of the aforementioned topics, even though each one is worth examining individually. Because, The Perfect Nine is a notable example of transmodern writing in contemporary world literature, with its crucial teachings that aim to establish egalitarian and prosperous societies based upon harmonious and virtuous relationships between humans and nature. It promotes interdependence and unity, as key principles in this process. Blending folklore, mythology, adventure, and allegory, the book delves into the essence of God and human existence while recounting the myth of the Gĩkũyũ people.

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Post-patriarkal Bir Vizyon: The Perfect Nine'daki Birlik, Cinsiyet Eşitliği ve Sürdürülebilirlik Üzerine Transmodern Temalar

Year 2024, Volume: 9 Issue: 3, 1414 - 1428, 31.12.2024
https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.1544860

Abstract

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Bu makale, Nobel Edebiyat Ödülüne güçlü bir aday olarak değerlendirilen Kenyalı romancı akademisyen ve yazar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’nun destansı şiiri The Perfect Nine’ın transmodern bir analizini, yazarın özellikle feminizme, birliğe ve emperyalizm ile Avrupamerkezcilik eleştirisine odaklanarak sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu çaba kapsamında çalışma, yazarın transmodern felsefe açısından doğayla bütünleşmenin, küreselleşmenin, sürdürülebilirliğin ve aile değerlerinin önemine yaptığı vurgunun altını çizmektedir. Bilim, etik ve toplum arasındaki ilişkide önemli paradigma değişimi yaşanırken, bazı çağdaş yazarlar ve teorisyenler hem modernizm hem de postmodernizm unsurlarını aşmayı ve entegre etmeyi amaçlayan yeni bir felsefi ve kültürel terim olan “transmodernite”yi kullanmaktadırlar. Transmodernizm, insanların inançlarına, kültürlerine, ekonomilerine ve politikalarına ilişkin karmaşık ve çağdaş temel bakış açılarını yeniden tanımlar ve bunlara çözümler sunar. Bu bilgiler ışığında, bu çalışma, The Perfect Nine eserini her biri ayrı ayrı incelenmeye değer olsa da yukarıda belirtilen tüm konuları kapsayan transmodernist bir bakış açısıyla analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Çünkü eser, insanlar ve doğa arasındaki uyumlu ve erdemli ilişkilere dayalı eşitlikçi ve müreffeh toplumlar kurmayı amaçlayan önemli öğretileriyle, çağdaş dünya edebiyatında transmodern yazının önemli bir örneğidir. Bu süreçte temel ilkeler olarak karşılıklı bağımlılığı ve birliği teşvik eder. Folklor, mitoloji, macera ve alegoriyi harmanlayan kitap, Gĩkũyũ halkının mitini anlatırken Tanrı'nın ve insan varoluşunun özünü araştırır.

References

  • Ateljević, Irena (2013). “Transmodernity: Integrating Perspectives on Societal Evolution”. Futures, 47, 38-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2013.01.002.
  • Bilsel, Hande (2022, September 27). “Transmodern Ufuklardan Bir Umut Huzmesi Süzülebilir mi?” Gerçek Gündem.https://www.gercekgundem.com/yazarlar/dr-hande-bilsel/4782/transmodern-ufuklardan-bir-umut-huzmesi-suzulebilir-mi
  • Braidotti, Rosi (2016). “Posthuman Feminist Theory”. In L. Disch & M. Hawkesworth (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory (pp. 673). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Cavanagh, Shelia T. (1994). Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires: Female Sexuality in “The Faerie Queene” Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
  • Dussel, Enrique (1995). The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of “the other” and the Myth of Modernity. New York, NY: Continuum.
  • Dussel, Enrique and Aquilina Martinez (2003). Philosophy of Liberation. Eugene, Or.: Wipf. & Stock Publ.
  • Eisler, Riane (1987). The Chalice and the Blade: Our History and Our Future. San Francisco: Harper and Row.
  • Eisler, Riane (1996). Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth and the Politics of the Body. New York: Harper San Francisco.
  • Elgin, Duane (1997). Global Consciousness Change: Indicators of an Emerging Paradigm. San Anselmo: Millennium Project.
  • Haraway, Donna (1987). “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”. Australian Feminist Studies, 2(4), 1-42.
  • Kabira, Wanjiku (2019). “Interview with Wanjiku Maina”, Daily Nation.
  • Kristeva, Julia (1986). “A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident,” The Kristeva Reader: Julia Kristeva, Ed. by., Toril Moi, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 294-300.
  • Roy, É. L., By, Helfrich, S., & Bollier, D. (2016, January 20). How I Have Been Conducting Research on the Commons without Knowing It. Heinrich Böll Stiftung. https://www.boell.de/en/2016/01/20/how-i-have-been-conducting-research-commons-thirty-years-without-knowing-it.
  • Morin, Edgar (1999). Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001177/117740eo.pdf, Paris.
  • Mura, Andrea (2012). “The Symbolic Function of Transmodernity”. Language and Psychoanalysis, 1(1), 68-87. https://doi.org/10.7565/landp.2012.0005.
  • Onega, Susana (2014). “The Notion of Paradigm Shift and the Roles of Science and Literature in the Interpretation of Reality.” European Review 22: 491-503.
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Literary Theory
Journal Section DİLBİLİM / ARAŞTIRMA MAKALELERİ
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Leyla Adıgüzel 0000-0003-3102-2053

Publication Date December 31, 2024
Submission Date September 6, 2024
Acceptance Date November 25, 2024
Published in Issue Year 2024 Volume: 9 Issue: 3

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APA Adıgüzel, L. (2024). Post-patriarkal Bir Vizyon: The Perfect Nine’daki Birlik, Cinsiyet Eşitliği ve Sürdürülebilirlik Üzerine Transmodern Temalar. Söylem Filoloji Dergisi, 9(3), 1414-1428. https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.1544860