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Kazuo Ishiguro'nun Beni Asla Bırakma Ve Margaret Atwood'un Damızlık Kızın Öyküsü Romanlarında Bellek, Kayıp Ve Nostalji

Year 2023, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 26 - 37, 20.12.2023

Abstract

Son dönemdeki edebi eser ve teorilerde, bellek, kayıp, travma, tarih, nostalji gibi konular tarihsel ve toplumsal önemi çerçevesinde sık sık ele alınmaktadır. Yine, son yıllarda, bellek, kayıp ve nostalji temalarına odaklanan pek çok kitabın yayınlanması dikkat çekicidir. Bu açıdan bakıldığında hem Kazuo Ishiguro’nun hem de Margaret Atwood’un eserlerinde hatırlama, kaybetme ve nostalji kavramları önemli ve işlevseldir çünkü bu temaların kurgulanması, adı geçen yazarların eserleri için çok önemlidir. Ishiguro ve Atwood’un özellikle, bellek, kayıp ve nostalji kavramlarını birbirleri ile ilişkilendirme biçimleri eserlerinin en dikkat çekici özellikleri arasında sayılabilir. Bu nedenle, bu çalışmada bellek, kayıp ve nostalji kavramları, Ishiguro'nun Never Let Me Go ve Atwood'un The Handmade’s Tale adlı romanlarında, bellek, kayıp ve nostalji kavramları, başlıca karakterlerin geçmişleri, kayıpları ve bedenleri ile olan ilişkileri çerçevesinde incelenecektir.

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Memory, Loss, and Nostalgia in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Atwood’s The Handmade’s Tale

Year 2023, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 26 - 37, 20.12.2023

Abstract

Regarding the recent literary works and theories, the issues such as memory, loss, trauma, history and nostalgia have been studied owing to their historical and social significance. The publications of many books that are concerned with the subjects of memory, loss, and nostalgia have been drawn attention in the last decades. From this point of view, the concepts of remembering, losing, and nostalgia are significant and functional through the works of both Kazuo Ishiguro and Margaret Atwood since the construction of these themes is crucial to their fiction. Their fiction is fundamental to carry out the interactions and interrelations among these contemporary critical conceptions. Consequently, in this study, memory, loss, and nostalgia will be examined through Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Atwood’s The Handmade’s Tale within the frame of the relationships between one another and the bodies of the narrators through these novels.

References

  • Atwood, M. (1998). The Handmaid’s Tale. Fawcett Crest Books.
  • Boym, S. (2001). The Future of Nostalgia. Basic Books.
  • Dickinson, H., & Erben, M. (2006). “Nostalgia and Autobiography: The Past in the Present.” Auto/Biography. 14, 223–244.
  • Drag, W. (2014). Revisiting Loss: Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Eng, D. L., & Kazanjian, D. (2003). Loss: The Politics of Mourning. University of California Press.
  • Finigan, T. (2011). “Into the Memory Hole’: Totalitarianism and Mal d’archive in Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid’s Tale.’’ Science Fiction Studies. 38. 3, 435-459.
  • Ishiguro, K. (2005). Never Let Me Go. Vintage Books.
  • LaCapra, D. (2001). Writing History, Writing Trauma. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.
  • Nakamura, A. (2015). “I’m a refugee from the past”: The Function of Nostalgia in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry. 2. 1, 111-127.
  • Roberts, A. (2000). Science Fiction. Routledge.
  • Su, J. J. (2005). Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel. Cambridge University Press
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Primary Language English
Subjects British and Irish Language, Literature and Culture
Journal Section Research Articles
Authors

Yasemin Baysal 0000-0002-4292-0169

Publication Date December 20, 2023
Published in Issue Year 2023 Volume: 1 Issue: 1

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APA Baysal, Y. (2023). Memory, Loss, and Nostalgia in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Atwood’s The Handmade’s Tale. Academic Journal of Philology, 1(1), 26-37.