Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Ankara Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2021
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: ÖZGÜ ŞEKER
Danışman: UFUK EGE UYGUR
Özet:Postcolonial literature reflecting mostly the economic and social structures of former colonized countries decolonized after World War II also addresses otherization/in-betweenness/alienation of people suffering from colonialism during the colonial and decolonization periods. In this study, Towards Another Summer, by Janet Frame, The Silicon Tongue, by Beryl Fletcher, and Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones, writers from New Zealand, a former settler colonized country, are analysed. The writers, relating the characters’ alienation to the existence of the other/Other encountered in an integral/external migration/emigration/immigration, suggest that the other/Other plays a crucial role in self-identification. Also, the other/Other enables the postcolonial individual to adopt his/her national culture. The defamiliarization technique is also used in the novels. The technique is in common with the postcolonial and posthumanist theories and fiction as all look at events and people differently, and all help characters understand the underlying reasons of conditions and events like colonialism and wars and have an identity and express themselves in different manners. In the novels, fiction appears as literature whereas in the second one it also appears as cyberspace. This study delineates the other/Other’s effects on alienation and the alienation-fiction relationship in postcolonial novels with posthumanist representations. Therefore, the aim of this study is to depict that alienation is felt not only by the colonized but also by people exposed to colonialism. Besides, this study aims at delineating the effects of fiction, literature/cyberspace, on alienation, the functions of fiction considering alienation, the alienation-fiction relationship, and the similar functions of fiction and posthumanism.