Jhumpa Lahiri'nin Adaş İsimli Romanında Sömürge Sonrası Göçmen Kimliği
Öz
Sömürge sonrası dönem, sömürge devletlerinin İkinci Dünya Savaşı'ndan sonra sömürge politikalarını gizlice farklı şekillerde sürdürdükleri bir dönemdir. Jhumpa Lahiri'nin Adaş isimli romanı, tanıdıkları her şeyden uzakta bir hayat kurmak için Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'ne yerleşen Bengalli bir çiftin yaşam zorluklarını ele almaktadır. Romanda kültürel kimlik, köksüzlük, gelenek ve aile beklentileri kavramları ele alınmaktadır. Ayrıca hafıza, nostalji, kayıp ve özlem bu romanda ele alınan temalardan bazılarıdır. Ashoke ve Ashima, birinci kuşak göçmenler, daha iyi bir yaşam umuduyla ABD'ye göç ederler, ancak geçmişleri onların peşini bırakmaz ve onlara kökenlerini hatırlatır. Öte yandan, onlardan farklı olarak bu ailenin çocukları Hindistan ile bağ kuramazlar, ancak ait olmak istedikleri Amerika’da bir vatandaş olarak da kabul görmezler. Yani romandaki kimlik bunalımı birinci ve ikinci kuşak göçmenlerde farklı şekillerde kendini göstermektedir. Bu makalenin amacı, modern kültürel söylemde sunulan karmaşık kültürel etkileşimleri ve kimlik krizlerini incelemektir. Bu makale, Amerikan yaşam tarzının sözde çekiciliğini ve iki ayrı kültür arasındaki çekişmeyi karşılaştırmalı bir mercekle incelemeye çalışmaktadır. Ayrıca bu makale, birinci ve ikinci kuşak göçmenlerin karşılaştığı kimlik ve kültürel çatışma sorunlarını ele almaya çalışmaktadır.
Anahtar Kelimeler kimlik, sömürgecilik sonrası, göçmenlik sorunu, kuşak çatışması, Adaş
Abstract
The Postcolonial Immigrant Identites in Jhumpa Lahiri'S Novel, the Namesake
The post-colonial period is a time when colonial states secretly continued their colonial policies in different ways after World War II. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri is a novel about the challenges and difficulties of a Bengali couple who travel to the United States to build a life. The novel deals with the concepts of cultural identity, rootlessness, tradition, and family expectations in a straightforward style. Memory, nostalgia, loss, and longing are some of the themes addressed in this novel. Ashoke and Ashima, first generation immigrants, come to the U.S. hoping for a better life, but the past haunts them like a shadow, reminding them of their origins. On the other hand, unlike them, the children of this family cannot form ties with India, but they are not accepted as citizens of America, to which they want to belong. In other words, the identity crisis in the novel manifests itself in different ways in the first and second generation immigrants. The purpose of this article is to examine the complicated cultural interactions and identity crises as presented in modern cultural discourse. This essay is an attempt to examine the attractions of the American way of life as well as the tug of war between two separate cultures through a comparative lens. In addition, this essay attempts to address the problems of identity and cultural conflict faced by first and second generation immigrants.
Keywords identity, postcolonialism, immigration problem, generation gap, Namesake
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