J.G. Ballard’ın The Drowned World Romanının Ekofeminist Okuması

Abstract

J.G. Ballard 20. yüzyılın en etkili İngiliz yazarları arasındadır. Gerçeküstü eserleriyle tanınan Ballard, iklim kurgunun önde gelen örneklerine imza atmıştır. The Drowned World J.G. Ballard’ın felaket sonrası dörtlemesinin ikinci romanıdır. Roman, küresel çapta bir sel felaketi esnasında bir bilim insanının hayatta kalabilme mücadelesini anlatmaktadır. Buna ek olarak, Londra’da hayatta kalan ve romanın da tek kadın karakteri olan Beatrice Dahl dikkat çekmektedir. Bu bağlamda, ekofeminizm, feminist düşünce ile ekoeleştiri kuramını bir araya getiren kapsamlı bir teoridir. The Drowned World romanı Beatrice karakteri aracılığıyla sosyal ekofeminizme ait kavramları bünyesinde barındırmaktadır. Makale, Beatrice Dahl karakterine odaklanarak, The Drowned World’ü sosyal ekofeminist pencereden analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Böylece, ataerkil kapitalizm ile kadınların maruz kaldıkları baskılar arasındaki ilişki romana yapılan göndermelerle açığa çıkarılmaktadır.

Keywords

• J.G. Ballard,
• Ekofeminizm,
• The Drowned World
• İklim Kurgu
• Karen J. Warren
• Apokaliptik Kurgu

An Ecofeminist Interpretation of J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World

Abstract

J.G. Ballard is one of the most influential British authors of the 20th century. Renowned for his surrealist works of fiction, Ballard delivered the primary examples of climate fiction. The Drowned World is J.G. Ballard’s second novel of a post-apocalyptic quadrilogy. The novel tells the story of a scientist’s quest for survival amidst a global flood. Moreover, Beatrice Dahl happens to be the only woman left alive in London and the sole woman character of the novel itself. To that end, ecofeminism is a comprehensive theory which combines feminist thought with the school of ecocriticism. The Drowned World is a novel that incorporates notions of social ecofeminism through the character of Beatrice. This article aims to provide a social ecofeminist analysis of Ballard’s The Drowned World by focusing on the character of Beatrice Dahl. All in all, the relationship between patriarchal capitalism and the oppression of women and nature is exposed in the article with specific references to the novel.

Keywords

• J.G. Ballard
• Ecofeminism
• The Drowned World
• Climate Fiction
• Karen J. Warren
• Apocalyptic Fiction

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