Jeanette Winterson’ın Vişnenin Cinsiyeti ve Elif Şafak’ın Pinhan Adlı Romanlarında Mistik Deneyim ve Beden Aşımı

Abstract

Batı kültürünü temsil eden feminist yazar Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry adlı romanında ataerkil kültürün bir ögesi olarak, dinin kadının ötekileştirilmesindeki rolünden yola çıkarak, eserinde Kabbala kültürü çerçevesinde mistik bir atmosfer yaratarak, kadını bedensel varlığının ötesine taşımaya çalışır. Türk yazar Elif Şafak da Pinhan adlı romanında benzer bir şekilde sadece toplumsal cinsiyeti değil insanın fiziksel gerçekliğinin ötesindeki varlığını da Sufi mistisizmi açısından ele alır. Bunu yaparken, her iki yazar da karakterlerini farklı zaman dilimlerinde farklı bedenlerde tasavvur ederler ve böylece aşkın gerçekliği ön plana çıkararak kadının ataerkil kültürde ötelenmesine temel oluşturan cinsiyet ayırımını hiçlerler. Bu çalışma, farklı beden, zaman ve mekanlarda yeniden tezahür eden ana karakterler üzerine kurgulanmış bu iki romanı mistik açıdan irdelemektedir. Her iki yazar da, kadının bedensel varlığı üzerinden ötekileştirilmesine tepki olarak birlik kavramını merkeze alan mistisizm üzerinde dururlar.

Keywords

• Winterson
• ,Shafak
• Sexing the Cherry
• Pinhan
• Sufism
• Kabbala
• feminism

Mystical Transgression of the Body in Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry and Elif Shafak’s Pinhan (Sufi)

Abstract

Both English writer Jeanette Winterson and Turkish writer Elif Shafak are marked through their involvement with feminism. Considering their concern with mysticism as a reaction against the Orthodox religion which they believe gives support to the patriarchal oppression of women, this study compares Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry and Shafak’s Pinhan. Winterson deals with Kabbala mysticism in Sexing the Cherry whereas Shafak adapts Sufism in Pinhan. Both authors depict, in their novels, fluid character identities who reincarnate in different times and spaces in different bodies. This attitude is considered, even though they adapt different types of mysticism, as the reflection of their concern with spirituality, which they develop against the discriminating patriarchal religion. By privileging spiritual reality over the physical reality, they both annihilate women’s subjection to physical laws of patriarchy.

Keywords

• Winterson
• Shafak
• Sexing the Cherry
• Pinhan
• mysticism
• Sufism
• Kabbala
• feminism

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