Sarah Hall’un The Carhullan Army Romanında Geçişken Bedensellik ve Direnen Beden

Abstract

Bu makale, Sarah Hall’un The Carhullan Army (2007) adlı eserini, direnişin ideolojik ve söylemsel çerçevelerin ötesinde nasıl yeniden kavramsallaştırabileceğini ve maddesel temellere dayanan, bedenlenmiş bir eylem olarak nasıl anlaşılabileceğini incelemek amacıyla ele almaktadır. Çalışma, distopik kurguya yönelik geleneksel okumaların direnişi çoğunlukla politik veya psikolojik bir çerçevede ele almasına karşılık, Hall’un romanının direnişi insan ve insan ötesi unsurların iç içe geçmesiyle ortaya çıkan geçişken bedensellik (transcorporeality) olarak adlandırılan bir olgu üzerinden vurguladığını ileri sürmektedir. Bunun yanı sıra, bu makale insan ötesi feminist teori ve Foucaultcu biyopolitikayı metodolojik çerçeve olarak kullanarak, kolektif emek, çevreyle etkileşim ve fiziksel cezalandırma uygulamalarının anlatının ana karakteri Kızkardeş’in (Sister) uysallıktan eylemliliğe geçişini nasıl şekillendirdiğini incelemektedir. Tartışma kapsamında öncelikle kadın bedenlerinin siyasal olarak yönetilme biçimleri ele alınmakta, ardından bedenlenmiş dönüşüm süreci izlenmekte ve son olarak çevresel katılım yoluyla maddesel bir direniş biçiminin nasıl mümkün kılındığı ortaya konulmaktadır.

Keywords

• Biyopolitika
• Bedensel özerklik
• İnsan ötesi feminizm
• Direniş
• Geçişken bedensellik
• Sarah Hall

Transcorporeality and the Resistant Body in Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army

Abstract

This article examines Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army (2007) in order to address how resistance can be reconceptualized beyond ideological and discursive frameworks and understood as a materially grounded, embodied activity. The article contends that Hall’s work emphasizes resistance as transcorporeal phenomena arising from the entanglement of human and nonhuman forces, in contrast to conventional readings of dystopian fiction that frequently favour political or psychological interpretations of resistance. In addition, this article examines how group labour, environmental interaction, and physical punishment influence the protagonist Sister’s transition from docility to agency, using posthuman feminist theory and Foucauldian biopolitics as its methodological framework. In the discussion, firstly, the political management of female bodies is examined. It is followed by tracing the process of embodied transformation and ended with displaying how a form of material resistance is made possible through environmental participation.

Keywords

• Biopolitics
• Bodily autonomy
• Posthuman feminism
• Resistance
• Transcorporeality
• Sarah Hall

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