Jean Rhys'in Wide Sargasso Sea Eserinde Sömürgecilik, Bulaşma ve Enfeksiyon

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 11 Sayı: 1, 27 - 44, 01.07.2025

Layla Gleisa

Öz

Britanya imparatorluğu tarihi boyunca sömürgecilik, hastalık ve tıp arasındaki ilişki, sömürgeleştirilmiş dünyanın kavramsallaştırılmasının şekillenmesinde çok önemli bir rol oynamıştır. Bu, özellikle Batı Hint'in İngiliz sömürge çıkarlarının merkezi olduğu Karayipler gibi tropikal bölgelerde belirgindi. Bu nedenle tropikal tıbbın ortaya çıkışı, epidemiyoloji disiplini ile birleştiğinde, bu bölgelerin tehlikeli ve hastalığa yatkın olarak tasvirini pekiştirdi. Epidemiyoloji sömürge aracı olarak kullanıldı ve Batı ile doğu tropikal bölgelerini ayırt etmeye hizmet etti. Geniş Sargasso Denizi'nde Jean Rhys, Karayipler ve ingiliz manzaralarını, her biri bu coğrafyaların karmaşıklıklarıyla boğuşan kadın kahramanı ve erkek karakterinin farklı bakış açılarıyla karşılaştırıyor. Tropikal manzaranın düşmanca ve evcilleştirilmemiş olarak tasvir edilmesi, sömürgeleştirilmiş topraklara yönelik ırksal ve sömürgeci kaygıları yansıtıyor. Bu düşmanlık, hem toprağın hem de halkının doğası gereği hastalıklı olduğu sömürge fikrini pekiştirir, böylece sömürgecinin tıbbi müdahale ve kontrole olan algılanan ihtiyacını haklı çıkarır. Bu makale, sömürgeciliğin, söyleminde ve literatüründe ırksallaştırılmış bir hastalık anlayışını temsil ettiği için sömürgeleştirilmiş manzaranın ve bedenin tıbbileştirilmesini nasıl uyguladığını inceleyecektir.
Anahtar kelimeler: epidemiyoloji, tıbbi topografya, hastalık, manzara, sömürgecilik

Anahtar Kelimeler

epidemiyoloji , tıbbi topografya , hastalık , manzara , sömürgecilik

Proje Numarası

number one

Colonization, Contagion, and Infection in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea

Öz

Throughout the history of the British Empire, the relationship between colonialism, disease, and medicine played a crucial role in shaping the conceptualization of the colonized world. This was especially evident in the tropical regions, such as the Caribbean, where the West Indian was the central to British colonial interest. Therefore, the emergence of tropical medicine, coupled with the discipline of epidemiology, reinforced the depiction of these regions as dangerous and prone to disease. Epidemiology was used as colonial tool and served to distinguish between the West and the oriental tropical regions. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys contrasts the Caribbean and English landscapes through the differing perspectives of her female protagonist and male character, each grappling with the complexities of these geographies. The portrayal of the tropical landscape as hostile and untamed echoes the racial and colonial anxieties toward the colonized land. This hostility reinforces the colonial notion that both the land and its people are inherently diseased, thereby justifying the colonizer's perceived need for medical intervention and control. This article will examine how colonialism practiced the medicalization of the colonized landscape and body as it represented a racialized conception of disease in its rhetoric and literature.

Anahtar Kelimeler

epidemiology , medical topography , disease , landscape , colonialism , Wide Sargasso Sea , Jean Rhys

Etik Beyan

The author declare no conflict of interest

Destekleyen Kurum

Istanbul Aydin University

Proje Numarası

number one

Teşekkür

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Arya Aryan for his invaluable guidance and support in the development of this article

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