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

Yıl 2020, Cilt: 6 Sayı: 2, 376 - 392, 22.06.2020

Gökçen Kara

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

Anahtar Kelimeler

Yeni tarihselcilik, Half of a Yellow Sun, , Nijerya İç Savaşı, , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

Anahtar Kelimeler

New historicism, Half of a Yellow Sun

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