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‘BARBARLARI BEKLERKEN’: DEREK MAHON’IN ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’ ADLI ŞİİRİNDE ÖTEKİ İMGESİ

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‘WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS’: THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER IN DEREK MAHON’S ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’

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In ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’, the Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy explains how the ruling class maintains its power within the context of meanings attributed to the Other, and  tells how deeply the extinction of the Other shakes the current socio-political system. As an archetype for a great number of literary studies, this poem also inspires the Northern Irish poet Derek Mahon’s ‘Poem Beginning with a Line by Cavafy’. In this poem, Mahon examines the dilemma of the civilised-self by questioning the reigning Protestant obsession with Catholic presence. Grounded chiefly on the traces of ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ in ‘Poem Beginning with a Line by Cavafy’, this paper tells how the Protestants in Northern Ireland used Catholic presence politically to secure their sovereignty until the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and how they transformed this perception of historical threat into a paranoia. The barbarians in both poems are practical scapegoats for the reigning order. Yet, unlike those Cavafy describes, Mahon’s barbarians live not beyond the borders, but together with the civilised-self, aping its lifestyle. The civilised-self perceives even this desire for levelling as a threat and gradually transforms into what it is frightened of, by positioning itself negatively against the Other. If Cavafy’s barbarians are a remedy for the decaying civilisation, Mahon’s barbarians are agents of the Protestant paranoia as well as an outcome of the culturally decayed society. 

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

Türkçe

Konular

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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Mümin Hakkıoğlu
GÜMÜŞHANE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye

Yayımlanma Tarihi

20 Aralık 2017

Gönderilme Tarihi

2 Şubat 2017

Kabul Tarihi

19 Ekim 2017

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2017 Cilt: 5 Sayı: 10

Kaynak Göster

APA
Hakkıoğlu, M. (2017). ‘BARBARLARI BEKLERKEN’: DEREK MAHON’IN ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’ ADLI ŞİİRİNDE ÖTEKİ İMGESİ. HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 5(10), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.289417
AMA
1.Hakkıoğlu M. ‘BARBARLARI BEKLERKEN’: DEREK MAHON’IN ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’ ADLI ŞİİRİNDE ÖTEKİ İMGESİ. Humanitas. 2017;5(10):27-39. doi:10.20304/humanitas.289417
Chicago
Hakkıoğlu, Mümin. 2017. “‘BARBARLARI BEKLERKEN’: DEREK MAHON’IN ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’ ADLI ŞİİRİNDE ÖTEKİ İMGESİ”. HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 5 (10): 27-39. https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.289417.
EndNote
Hakkıoğlu M (01 Aralık 2017) ‘BARBARLARI BEKLERKEN’: DEREK MAHON’IN ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’ ADLI ŞİİRİNDE ÖTEKİ İMGESİ. HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 5 10 27–39.
IEEE
[1]M. Hakkıoğlu, “‘BARBARLARI BEKLERKEN’: DEREK MAHON’IN ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’ ADLI ŞİİRİNDE ÖTEKİ İMGESİ”, Humanitas, c. 5, sy 10, ss. 27–39, Ara. 2017, doi: 10.20304/humanitas.289417.
ISNAD
Hakkıoğlu, Mümin. “‘BARBARLARI BEKLERKEN’: DEREK MAHON’IN ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’ ADLI ŞİİRİNDE ÖTEKİ İMGESİ”. HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 5/10 (01 Aralık 2017): 27-39. https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.289417.
JAMA
1.Hakkıoğlu M. ‘BARBARLARI BEKLERKEN’: DEREK MAHON’IN ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’ ADLI ŞİİRİNDE ÖTEKİ İMGESİ. Humanitas. 2017;5:27–39.
MLA
Hakkıoğlu, Mümin. “‘BARBARLARI BEKLERKEN’: DEREK MAHON’IN ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’ ADLI ŞİİRİNDE ÖTEKİ İMGESİ”. HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 5, sy 10, Aralık 2017, ss. 27-39, doi:10.20304/humanitas.289417.
Vancouver
1.Mümin Hakkıoğlu. ‘BARBARLARI BEKLERKEN’: DEREK MAHON’IN ‘POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY CAVAFY’ ADLI ŞİİRİNDE ÖTEKİ İMGESİ. Humanitas. 01 Aralık 2017;5(10):27-39. doi:10.20304/humanitas.289417