Araştırma Makalesi

Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Cilt: 7 Sayı: 1 30 Haziran 2025
PDF İndir
TR EN

Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Öz

The extent of power one party exercises over the other in any social relationship exerts its influence on the signs and syntax conventions used in contexts. In addition to the socially normative manifestation of power relationships, literary texts are also among the media through which the reading public can observe the effect of power a character holds in addressing the supposedly less powerful. Power relationships and their definitive role in the production of a context by a character could be well-observed in postcolonial literature. With the colonizer attempting to exploit the valuables and the human labor of the colonized lands, social construction of power manifests itself more explicitly than an implicit narration of social mishaps. This study sets out to identify the power relationships between the characters in the novel titled Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from the perspective of postcolonial literary criticism, followed by a discussion of the source of power each character holds in varying degrees. The analysis of the contexts with power relationship demonstrates that the binary oppositions of colonizer-colonized, white-black, and male-female favor the former elements, portraying them as the oppressors to the latter category. The contexts identified in the source text are further compared to two target texts in Turkish through the “Systematics of Designification” by Öztürk Kasar (2021) with a view to the evaluation of translation of contexts with unbalanced and socially constructed power relationship. The results of the evaluation yield preservation of the meaning as well as meaning transformations in target texts, which are discussed in relevance to the resulting signification of the signs of power for the target readers.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

  1. Achebe, C. (1994). Things fall apart. New York: Anchor Books.
  2. Achebe, C. (1997). Ruhum yeniden doğacak (A. Selveroğlu, Trans.). (2nd Ed.) İstanbul: Sosyalist Yayınları.
  3. Achebe, C. (2022). Parçalanma (N. Arıbaş Erbil, Trans.). (2nd Ed.) İstanbul: İthakiYayınları.
  4. Aghasıyev, K. (2024). Cultural, religious, and linguistic hybridity in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart. Journal of Young Intellectuals, 5(1), 174–188.
  5. Al-Leithy, M. A. (2022). A comparative study of postcolonial aspects in T. Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and C. Achebe’s No Longer at Ease. Comparative Literature: East & West, 5(2), 123–136. https://doi.org/10.1080/25723618.2021.2004678
  6. Altıntaş, Ö. (2015). A comparative analysis of the two Turkish translations of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart within the framework of Paul Bandia’s approach to postcolonial translation (Unpublished MA Thesis). Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye.
  7. Aydoğan, İ. (2022, December 18). Sömürgecilik. TürkMaarifAnsiklopedisi. Retrieved from https://turkmaarifansiklopedisi.org.tr/somurgecilik Accessed on: 11.04.2025
  8. Bhabha, H. (1984). Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse. Discipleship: A Special Issue on Psychoanalysis, (28), 125–133.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Edebi Teori

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

4 Mayıs 2025

Kabul Tarihi

12 Haziran 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 7 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

APA
Demir Eryiğit, E. M., Balkul, H. İ., & Kuleli, M. (2025). Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi, 7(1), 84-102. https://izlik.org/JA42SM85KH
AMA
1.Demir Eryiğit EM, Balkul Hİ, Kuleli M. Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. UFCED. 2025;7(1):84-102. https://izlik.org/JA42SM85KH
Chicago
Demir Eryiğit, Esra Melek, Halil İbrahim Balkul, ve Mesut Kuleli. 2025. “Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi 7 (1): 84-102. https://izlik.org/JA42SM85KH.
EndNote
Demir Eryiğit EM, Balkul Hİ, Kuleli M (01 Haziran 2025) Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi 7 1 84–102.
IEEE
[1]E. M. Demir Eryiğit, H. İ. Balkul, ve M. Kuleli, “Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe”, UFCED, c. 7, sy 1, ss. 84–102, Haz. 2025, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA42SM85KH
ISNAD
Demir Eryiğit, Esra Melek - Balkul, Halil İbrahim - Kuleli, Mesut. “Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi 7/1 (01 Haziran 2025): 84-102. https://izlik.org/JA42SM85KH.
JAMA
1.Demir Eryiğit EM, Balkul Hİ, Kuleli M. Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. UFCED. 2025;7:84–102.
MLA
Demir Eryiğit, Esra Melek, vd. “Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi, c. 7, sy 1, Haziran 2025, ss. 84-102, https://izlik.org/JA42SM85KH.
Vancouver
1.Esra Melek Demir Eryiğit, Halil İbrahim Balkul, Mesut Kuleli. Manifestation and Translation of Power Relationship in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. UFCED [Internet]. 01 Haziran 2025;7(1):84-102. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA42SM85KH

422x119





422x119

ResearchBib   google akademik ile ilgili görsel sonucu     logo1.jpg     Root Indexing     general impact factor ile ilgili görsel sonucu    idealonline ile ilgili görsel sonucu

220px-Akademia_sosyal_bilimler_indeksi_logosu.gif    DRJI_Logo.jpg    logo.jpg   logo.png      download


by-nc-nd.png?w=588

  Articles published in this journal are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.                                                                           Articles published in this journal are permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to the full texts of these articles.