Magical realist elements in postcolonial feminist fiction: a comparative Study of Sevgili Arsız Ölüm and Beloved
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2020
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In terms of race, gender, and class hierarchies, the female characters of Sevgili Arsız Ölüm and Beloved suffer the pressure of being societal outsiders along with patriarchal oppression. This outside pressure leads them to recreate colonization (sometimes a woman can oppress another woman) and sometimes to fight back more in their lives. By analyzing the conflict between the real and the imaginary in both novels, one can understand that it is possible to see suffering and the need for self-discovery by oppressed characters across different times, spaces, and stories. Toni Morrison successfully incorporates magical realist features into her masterpiece Beloved, which manifests Black people’s tragic history and their difficult lives as a result of racism. Latife Tekin, who is a leading magical realist author in Turkish Literature, presents the problems of Turkish people who have immigrated from rural to urban environments and their strivings for selfidentification in her novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm. Typical tenets of magical realism are present in both novels, such as non-linear time and space, passing narrative voices, extraordinary events, and traditional beliefs and fantasy. By referring to the magical realist style of narration and postcolonial feminist theory, the aim of this comparison is to observe the common struggles experienced by nonwhite and non-Western women in todays’ world. The aim of the study is to discuss the other side of the hidden and/or distorted realities produced by the oppressors, and to analyze the attendant historical, social, and psychological issues by focusing on female characters.
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