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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’nin Half of a Yellow Sun Adlı Eserine Yeni Tarihselci Bir Yaklaşım

Yıl 2020, , 376 - 392, 22.06.2020
https://doi.org/10.21551/jhf.743597

Öz

Yeni tarihselci teori edebiyat incelemelerinde "tarihe dönüşü" temsil eder. Ancak tarihin bu dönüşü tarihe alternatif bir anlayış sunmaktadır. Bu yeni anlayışa göre tarih, onu yazan kişinin bakış açısına göre yeniden şekillendiği için nesnel değildir. Yeni Tarihselcilik, 'tarih'in açıkça ulaşılabilir, üniter ve doğrusal bir geçmiş olduğu fikrini reddeder. Yeni tarihselcilik tarih ve kültür kavramlarını yeniden yorumlayarak tarihi olayları güç ilişkileri bağlamında yorumlar.
Half of a Yellow Sun romanında Adichie, İngiliz egemenliğinden ve Biafran Savaşı'ndan sonra Nijerya'nın tarihinin yeniden anlatarak sömüren/ sömürülen paradigmasını keşfetmeye çalışmıştır. Adichie, postkolonyal Nijerya’yı üç farklı anlatıcının görüşleri ile tasvir etmektedir. Bu bağlamda Adichie romana yeni tarihselci bir bakış açısı sunmaktadır., Roman Biafralıların 1960'larda yaşadığı çeşitli deneyimleri yansıtmaktadır. Adichie, sömüren/ sömürülen paradigmasına birçok açıdan yaklaşarak sorunsal bir hale getirmektedir

Kaynakça

  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun. Jakarta: Hikmah, 2008.
  • Amuta, Chidi. Theory of African Literature: Implications for Practical Criticism. London: Zed Books, 2017.
  • Appiah, Anthony. In My Fathers House Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. London: Methuen, 1992.
  • Bello, Taiwo. “Writing the Nigeria–Biafra War.” Canadian Journal of African Studies 51, no. 2 (2017): 324–25.
  • Borum, Michael. “Q & A with the Author.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of A Yellow Sun, a novel. Accessed May 26, 2020. https://www.halfofayellowsun.com/content.php?page=tsbtb&n=5&f=2.
  • Colebrook, Claire. New Literary Histories: New Historicism and Contemporary Criticism. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1998.
  • Coffey, Meredith. “Ethnic Minorities and the Biafran National Imaginary in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, Meredith Coffey.” In Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War, 477–85. Suffolk: James Currey, 2016.
  • Cox, Jeffrey, Reynolds, Larry, New Historical Literary Study. Princeton:
  • Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Pref. by Jean-Paul Sartre. New York: Grove Press, 1968.
  • Geertz, Clifford. “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 22, no. 4 (1966): 2–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.1966.11454918.
  • Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: from More to Shakespeare. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
  • Hall, Stuart (1990) 'Cultural identity and diaspora' in Jonathan Rutherford (ed.) Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, London: Lawrence & Wishart, pp.222-37.
  • Little, Daniel. New Contributions to the Philosophy of History. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.
  • Murfin, Ross C., and Supryia M. Ray. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2018.
  • Said, Edward W. Orientalism. Melbourne: Vision Australia Personal Support, 2010.
  • White, Hayden V. Metahistory. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1987.
  • Zengin, Mevlüde. “A Study of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness and Nostromo in a New Historicist Perspective.” Diss. Ankara University, 2007.

A New Historicist Approach to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

Yıl 2020, , 376 - 392, 22.06.2020
https://doi.org/10.21551/jhf.743597

Öz

In literary criticism the new historicist theory represents “a return to history.” But this turn of history offers an alternative understanding of history. According to this new understanding, history is not objective as it is reshaped according to the point of view of the person who wrote it. New Historicism refuses the idea of history as a clearly available, unitary and linear past. New historicism reinterprets the concepts of history and culture and interprets historical events in the context of power relations.
In Half a Yellow Sun, Adichie tries to explore the colonizer / colonized paradigm with the retelling of Nigeria’s history after its freedom from Britain’s rule and the subsequent Biafran War. Adichie depicts different views about postcolonial Nigeria with three narrators. In this context, Adichie offers a new historicist perspective to the novel. The novel reflects a variety of experiences that Biafrans experienced in the 1960s. Adichie is problematizing the colonizer / colonized paradigm by approaching it from many perspectives.


Keywords: New historicism, Half of a Yellow Sun, Nigerian Civil War, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, historiography

Kaynakça

  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun. Jakarta: Hikmah, 2008.
  • Amuta, Chidi. Theory of African Literature: Implications for Practical Criticism. London: Zed Books, 2017.
  • Appiah, Anthony. In My Fathers House Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. London: Methuen, 1992.
  • Bello, Taiwo. “Writing the Nigeria–Biafra War.” Canadian Journal of African Studies 51, no. 2 (2017): 324–25.
  • Borum, Michael. “Q & A with the Author.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of A Yellow Sun, a novel. Accessed May 26, 2020. https://www.halfofayellowsun.com/content.php?page=tsbtb&n=5&f=2.
  • Colebrook, Claire. New Literary Histories: New Historicism and Contemporary Criticism. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1998.
  • Coffey, Meredith. “Ethnic Minorities and the Biafran National Imaginary in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, Meredith Coffey.” In Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War, 477–85. Suffolk: James Currey, 2016.
  • Cox, Jeffrey, Reynolds, Larry, New Historical Literary Study. Princeton:
  • Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Pref. by Jean-Paul Sartre. New York: Grove Press, 1968.
  • Geertz, Clifford. “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 22, no. 4 (1966): 2–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.1966.11454918.
  • Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: from More to Shakespeare. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
  • Hall, Stuart (1990) 'Cultural identity and diaspora' in Jonathan Rutherford (ed.) Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, London: Lawrence & Wishart, pp.222-37.
  • Little, Daniel. New Contributions to the Philosophy of History. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.
  • Murfin, Ross C., and Supryia M. Ray. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2018.
  • Said, Edward W. Orientalism. Melbourne: Vision Australia Personal Support, 2010.
  • White, Hayden V. Metahistory. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1987.
  • Zengin, Mevlüde. “A Study of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness and Nostromo in a New Historicist Perspective.” Diss. Ankara University, 2007.
Toplam 18 adet kaynakça vardır.

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Yayımlanma Tarihi 22 Haziran 2020
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2020

Kaynak Göster

Chicago Kara, Gökçen. “A New Historicist Approach to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun”. Tarih Ve Gelecek Dergisi 6, sy. 2 (Haziran 2020): 376-92. https://doi.org/10.21551/jhf.743597.

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