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Postkolonyal Feminizm: Fruit of the Lemon Romanında Kimlik Arayışı

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 11 Sayı: 1, 25 - 50, 30.04.2025
https://doi.org/10.31463/aicusbed.1648541

Öz

Sömürge sonrası feminizm, cinsiyet ve ırkın monolitik anlatılarına karşı yıkıcı bir güç olarak işlev görmüş ve sömürgeciliğin iç içe geçmiş miraslarını ve diasporik kimliklerin susturulmasını sorgulamıştır. Andrea Levy, Fruit of the Lemon'da, Jamaika kökenli İngiliz doğumlu bir kadın olan Faith Jackson'ın yolculuğunu karmaşık bir şekilde ele alır; parçalanmış benlik duygusu, sömürge sonrası bir manzarada miras, aidiyet ve direnişin değişken müzakerelerini somutlaştırır. Bu çalışma, göç, kültürel melezlik ve sistemik dışlanmanın labirentvari etkileşimini araştırarak, Britanya'nın tarihsel amnezisinin diasporik bilinci nasıl çarpıttığını ortaya koymaktadır. Levy'nin anlatısı, hem diasporik tarihlerin bir kazısı hem de yeniden kazanılması, Batı merkezli feminist çerçevelere yerleşmiş silinmeye karşı bir karşı söylem işlevi görmektedir. Faith'in varoluşsal çözülüşü ve yeniden inşası aracılığıyla roman, asimilasyonist baskıları altüst ederek ikinci nesil diasporik kadınların içinde bulunduğu ırksallaştırılmış dışlanma mimarilerini açığa çıkarmaktadır. Postkolonyal feminizm ve kesişimselliğe dayanan bu analiz, Levy'nin baskın ırksal ve cinsiyetlendirilmiş paradigmaları nasıl parçaladığını, kimlik oluşumunda tarihsel bilincin zorunluluğunu nasıl ön plana çıkardığını deşifre etmektedir. Sonuç olarak, Fruit of the Lemon isyancı bir metin olarak ortaya çıkmaktadır ve dışlayıcı tarih yazımlarına karşı bir meydan okuma alanı ve çağdaş kimlik söylemlerinde ırk, cinsiyet ve göçün tanınması için bir manifesto sunmaktadır.

Kaynakça

  • Baucom, I. (1999). Out of place: Englishness, empire, and the locations of identity. Princeton University Press.
  • Bhabha, H. K. (1994). The location of culture. Routledge.
  • Brah, A. (1996). Cartographies of diaspora: Contesting identities. Routledge.
  • Bromley, R. (2019). Narratives for a new belonging: Diasporic cultural fictions. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory, and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989(1), 139–167.
  • Fanon, F. (1967). Black skin, white masks (C. L. Markmann, Trans.). Grove Press.
  • Gandhi, L. (1998). Postcolonial theory: A critical introduction. Columbia University Press.
  • Gilroy, P. (1993). The Black Atlantic: Modernity and double consciousness. Harvard University Press.
  • Hall, S. (1990). Cultural identity and diaspora. In J. Rutherford (Ed.), Identity: Community, culture, difference (pp. 222–237). Lawrence & Wishart.
  • Hall, S. (1996). Who needs identity? In S. Hall & P. du Gay (Eds.), Questions of cultural identity (pp. 1–17). SAGE Publications.
  • Hebdige, D. (1992). Hiding in the light: On images and things. Routledge.
  • Levy, A. (2004). Fruit of the lemon. Picador.
  • Levy, A. (2000, February 19). This is my England. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com
  • Lima, M. H. (2005). The politics of identity in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon. Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 4(1), 131–146.
  • Loomba, A. (2015). Colonialism/Postcolonialism (3rd ed.). Routledge.
  • Mercer, K. (1994). Welcome to the jungle: Identity and diversity in postmodern politics. In K. Mercer (Ed.), Welcome to the jungle: New positions in Black cultural studies (pp. 1–26). Routledge.
  • Phillips, M. (2016). Windrush: The irresistible rise of multi-racial Britain. HarperCollins.
  • Prescod, C. (2017). Race and history in Britain. Pluto Press.
  • Saez, E. (2006). Rewriting history in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon. Callaloo, 29(4), 1092–1106.
  • Said, E. W. (1978). Orientalism. Pantheon Books.
  • Spivak, G. C. (1988). Can the subaltern speak? In C. Nelson & L. Grossberg (Eds.), Marxism and the interpretation of culture (pp. 271–313). University of Illinois Press.
  • Stein, M. (2004). Black British literature: Novels of transformation. Wasafiri, 19(42), 11–17.

POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 11 Sayı: 1, 25 - 50, 30.04.2025
https://doi.org/10.31463/aicusbed.1648541

Öz

Postcolonial feminism operates as a disruptive force against monolithic narratives of gender and race, interrogating the entangled legacies of colonialism and the silencing of diasporic identities. In Fruit of the Lemon, Andrea Levy intricately crafts the odyssey of Faith Jackson—a British-born woman of Jamaican descent—whose fractured sense of self embodies the volatile negotiations of heritage, belonging, and resistance within a postcolonial landscape. This study delves into the labyrinthine interplay of migration, cultural hybridity, and systemic exclusion, revealing how Britain’s historical amnesia distorts the diasporic consciousness. Levy’s narrative functions as both an excavation and a reclamation of diasporic histories, a counter-discourse against the erasure embedded in Western-centric feminist frameworks. Through Faith’s existential unraveling and reconstruction, the novel subverts assimilationist pressures and exposes the racialized architectures of exclusion that second-generation diasporic women navigate. Anchored in postcolonial feminism and intersectionality, this analysis deciphers how Levy dismantles dominant racial and gendered paradigms, foregrounding the imperative of historical consciousness in identity formation. Ultimately, Fruit of the Lemon emerges as an insurgent text—a site of defiance against exclusionary historiographies and a manifesto for the recognition of race, gender, and migration in contemporary identity discourses.

Kaynakça

  • Baucom, I. (1999). Out of place: Englishness, empire, and the locations of identity. Princeton University Press.
  • Bhabha, H. K. (1994). The location of culture. Routledge.
  • Brah, A. (1996). Cartographies of diaspora: Contesting identities. Routledge.
  • Bromley, R. (2019). Narratives for a new belonging: Diasporic cultural fictions. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory, and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989(1), 139–167.
  • Fanon, F. (1967). Black skin, white masks (C. L. Markmann, Trans.). Grove Press.
  • Gandhi, L. (1998). Postcolonial theory: A critical introduction. Columbia University Press.
  • Gilroy, P. (1993). The Black Atlantic: Modernity and double consciousness. Harvard University Press.
  • Hall, S. (1990). Cultural identity and diaspora. In J. Rutherford (Ed.), Identity: Community, culture, difference (pp. 222–237). Lawrence & Wishart.
  • Hall, S. (1996). Who needs identity? In S. Hall & P. du Gay (Eds.), Questions of cultural identity (pp. 1–17). SAGE Publications.
  • Hebdige, D. (1992). Hiding in the light: On images and things. Routledge.
  • Levy, A. (2004). Fruit of the lemon. Picador.
  • Levy, A. (2000, February 19). This is my England. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com
  • Lima, M. H. (2005). The politics of identity in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon. Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 4(1), 131–146.
  • Loomba, A. (2015). Colonialism/Postcolonialism (3rd ed.). Routledge.
  • Mercer, K. (1994). Welcome to the jungle: Identity and diversity in postmodern politics. In K. Mercer (Ed.), Welcome to the jungle: New positions in Black cultural studies (pp. 1–26). Routledge.
  • Phillips, M. (2016). Windrush: The irresistible rise of multi-racial Britain. HarperCollins.
  • Prescod, C. (2017). Race and history in Britain. Pluto Press.
  • Saez, E. (2006). Rewriting history in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon. Callaloo, 29(4), 1092–1106.
  • Said, E. W. (1978). Orientalism. Pantheon Books.
  • Spivak, G. C. (1988). Can the subaltern speak? In C. Nelson & L. Grossberg (Eds.), Marxism and the interpretation of culture (pp. 271–313). University of Illinois Press.
  • Stein, M. (2004). Black British literature: Novels of transformation. Wasafiri, 19(42), 11–17.
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Fikret Güven 0000-0002-9313-7166

Yayımlanma Tarihi 30 Nisan 2025
Gönderilme Tarihi 28 Şubat 2025
Kabul Tarihi 21 Nisan 2025
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2025 Cilt: 11 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

APA Güven, F. (2025). POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON. Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 11(1), 25-50. https://doi.org/10.31463/aicusbed.1648541