COMPARATIVE GYNOCRITICISM OF BRONTE’S WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

Melisa Genç

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COMPARATIVE GYNOCRITICISM OF BRONTE’S WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

Yazarlar:

Melisa Genç

Yayıncı:

Tekirdag Namik Kemal University

Ana Başlıklar:

İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi:

HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Vol.12 Issue 24, pp.150-164

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2024

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001329825

pISSN:

2147-088X

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 The present paper focuses on two influential female novelists and their ardent endeavours to claim a gender-specific structure and voice within the discourse of the novel. Emily Bronte and Arundhati Roy nauseated their contemporary readers and most of the critics by making use of bi-sexuality and incest as salient structural and thematic features of their narrative. In Wuthering Heights, both thematic and structural elements of Brontes feminine narrative operate as meta-narratives reverberating with the becoming of Bronte as a female novelist. The particular impinge of Brontes feminine narrative on the discourse of the novel reveals itself through the reversal of the oedipal projectile motion of history. Similarly, Arundhati Roy has weaponized her Indianized language to break from the strict linguistic laws of the symbolic so that the semiotic or the maternal realm has become blatant in The God of Small Things. Like Bronte, Roy wields incest and bi-sexuality to prevent the phallic development of the grand history; instead of the oedipal identity formation process, she displays the motif of incest as an opponent of a linear progression of the hero. Consequently, this study emphasises the differentiation of the two female novelists from the monolithic discourse in the novel. It also explains how feminine narrative structure owing to its immanent on-hand polyphony and bi-sexuality goes hand in hand with what Bakhtin calls heteroglossia and dialogic discourse in the novel.

 The present paper focuses on two influential female novelists and their ardent endeavours to claim a gender-specific structure and voice within the discourse of the novel. Emily Bronte and Arundhati Roy nauseated their contemporary readers and most of the critics by making use of bi-sexuality and incest as salient structural and thematic features of their narrative. In Wuthering Heights, both thematic and structural elements of Brontes feminine narrative operate as meta-narratives reverberating with the becoming of Bronte as a female novelist. The particular impinge of Brontes feminine narrative on the discourse of the novel reveals itself through the reversal of the oedipal projectile motion of history. Similarly, Arundhati Roy has weaponized her Indianized language to break from the strict linguistic laws of the symbolic so that the semiotic or the maternal realm has become blatant in The God of Small Things. Like Bronte, Roy wields incest and bi-sexuality to prevent the phallic development of the grand history; instead of the oedipal identity formation process, she displays the motif of incest as an opponent of a linear progression of the hero. Consequently, this study emphasises the differentiation of the two female novelists from the monolithic discourse in the novel. It also explains how feminine narrative structure owing to its immanent on-hand polyphony and bi-sexuality goes hand in hand with what Bakhtin calls heteroglossia and dialogic discourse in the novel.

 The present paper focuses on two influential female novelists and their ardent endeavours to claim a gender-specific structure and voice within the discourse of the novel. Emily Bronte and Arundhati Roy nauseated their contemporary readers and most of the critics by making use of bi-sexuality and incest as salient structural and thematic features of their narrative. In Wuthering Heights, both thematic and structural elements of Brontes feminine narrative operate as meta-narratives reverberating with the becoming of Bronte as a female novelist. The particular impinge of Brontes feminine narrative on the discourse of the novel reveals itself through the reversal of the oedipal projectile motion of history. Similarly, Arundhati Roy has weaponized her Indianized language to break from the strict linguistic laws of the symbolic so that the semiotic or the maternal realm has become blatant in The God of Small Things. Like Bronte, Roy wields incest and bi-sexuality to prevent the phallic development of the grand history; instead of the oedipal identity formation process, she displays the motif of incest as an opponent of a linear progression of the hero. Consequently, this study emphasises the differentiation of the two female novelists from the monolithic discourse in the novel. It also explains how feminine narrative structure owing to its immanent on-hand polyphony and bi-sexuality goes hand in hand with what Bakhtin calls heteroglossia and dialogic discourse in the novel.

 Bu makale iki etkili kadın romancıya ve onların romanın söyleminde cinsiyete özgü bir yapı ve ses iddia etme yönündeki ateşli çabalarına odaklanmaktadır. Emily Bronte ve Arundhati Roy, anlatılarının göze çarpan yapısal ve tematik özelliği olarak çift cinsiyetliliği ve ensesti öne çıkararak çağdaş okuyucularının ve eleştirmenlerin çoğunu şaşkınlığa uğratmışlardır. Uğultulu Tepelerde Brontenin dişil anlatısının hem tematik hem de yapısal unsurları, Brontenin kadın romancı haline gelişini yansıtan meta-anlatı olarak işlemektedir. Brontenin dişil yazınının roman söylemi üzerindeki özel etkisi, tarihin ödipal itici hareketinin tersine çevrilmesiyle kendini gösterir. Benzer şekilde, Arundhati Roy, Hintlileşmiş dilini simgeselin katı dilsel yasalarından kopmak için silah haline getirir, böylece; Küçük Şeylerin Tanrısında semiyotik veya annelik alanı bariz hale gelmektedir. Bronte gibi Roy da büyük tarihin fallik gelişimini engellemek için ensest ve çift cinsiyetliliği kullanır; Ödipal kimlik oluşum süreci yerine ensest motifini kahramanın doğrusal ilerlemesinin karşıtı olarak sergiler. Sonuç olarak bu çalışma, iki kadın romancının romandaki yekpare söylemden farklılaşmasını vurgulamaktadır. Aynı zamanda, içkin polifoni ve çift cinsiyetlilik nedeniyle dişil anlatı yapısının, romanda Bakhtinin heteroglossia ve diyalojik söylem olarak adlandırdığı şeyle nasıl el ele gittiğini de açıklamaktadır.

Makale detayları

COMPARATIVE GYNOCRITICISM OF BRONTE’S WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

Yazarlar:

Melisa Genç

Yayıncı:

Tekirdag Namik Kemal University

Ana Başlıklar:

İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi:

HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Vol.12 Issue 24, pp.150-164

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2024

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001329825

pISSN:

2147-088X

Feminism

Abject

Semiotics

Bi-sexuality

GynocriticismFeminizm

Abjekt

Semiotik

Bi-seksüalite

Jinoeleştiri

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Melisa Genç

Yayıncı: Tekirdag Namik Kemal University

Ana Başlıklar: İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi: HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Vol.12 Issue 24, pp.150-164

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 10/2024

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2001329825

pISSN: 2147-088X

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Melisa Genç

Yayıncı:

Tekirdag Namik Kemal University

Ana Başlıklar:

İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili | Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Dergi:

HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Vol.12 Issue 24, pp.150-164

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2024

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001329825

pISSN:

2147-088X