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TRAUMA OF WAR IN REBECCA WEST’S THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER
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This paper aims particularly at discussing how the trauma of twentieth-century warfare challenge the metanarratives that construct and instruct the idea of nation, and how trauma connects individuals with this ideology in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier (1918). The novel successfully portrays different levels of disturbances caused by the trauma of war one of which is Chris’ rejection of recalling his wife to find a kind of internal unity in an unsafe world. In the novel, shell-shocked Chris’ trauma strikingly leads to the narrative exploration of female subjectivity in states of psychological crisis. The story suggests many similarities between surviving at the battlefront and homefront while exploring the effects of war on men as well as women. In the novel, Chris’s war trauma makes other major characters of the novel question their social and gender roles framed by the Edwardian society compelling them to re-evaluate the nature of institutional systems in relation to gender conflict; thus, The Return of the Soldier successfully places men’s and women’s traumas in conjunction with one another in a more puzzling connection.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sanat ve Edebiyat
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
31 Aralık 2021
Gönderilme Tarihi
25 Eylül 2021
Kabul Tarihi
29 Kasım 2021
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2021 Cilt: 4 Sayı: 2
APA
Okuroğlu Özün, Ş. (2021). TRAUMA OF WAR IN REBECCA WEST’S THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 4(2), 356-365. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1000822
AMA
1.Okuroğlu Özün Ş. TRAUMA OF WAR IN REBECCA WEST’S THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER. UDEKAD. 2021;4(2):356-365. doi:10.37999/udekad.1000822
Chicago
Okuroğlu Özün, Şule. 2021. “TRAUMA OF WAR IN REBECCA WEST’S THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 4 (2): 356-65. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1000822.
EndNote
Okuroğlu Özün Ş (01 Aralık 2021) TRAUMA OF WAR IN REBECCA WEST’S THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 4 2 356–365.
IEEE
[1]Ş. Okuroğlu Özün, “TRAUMA OF WAR IN REBECCA WEST’S THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER”, UDEKAD, c. 4, sy 2, ss. 356–365, Ara. 2021, doi: 10.37999/udekad.1000822.
ISNAD
Okuroğlu Özün, Şule. “TRAUMA OF WAR IN REBECCA WEST’S THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 4/2 (01 Aralık 2021): 356-365. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1000822.
JAMA
1.Okuroğlu Özün Ş. TRAUMA OF WAR IN REBECCA WEST’S THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER. UDEKAD. 2021;4:356–365.
MLA
Okuroğlu Özün, Şule. “TRAUMA OF WAR IN REBECCA WEST’S THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, c. 4, sy 2, Aralık 2021, ss. 356-65, doi:10.37999/udekad.1000822.
Vancouver
1.Şule Okuroğlu Özün. TRAUMA OF WAR IN REBECCA WEST’S THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER. UDEKAD. 01 Aralık 2021;4(2):356-65. doi:10.37999/udekad.1000822