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The Interplay Between Historicism And Textualıty: Postmodern Hıstorıes

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  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

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  • 1999

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This essay dea1swith the interrelatedmatrix of textua1ityand historicity in the problematic representations of history in various postmodern novels which came to be known as historiographic metafictions. it explicates the formallinking of history and fiction in the metafıctional discourses of such novels. Arguing that these novels highlightthenarrativenatureofhistoriography, theessay draws attentiontothe dialogic relationshipbetween the past and the present as the postmodern novel subverts and chal1enges the traditiona! understanding of history as Grand Narrative. References to the plots of several novels, such as Waterland, Famous Last Words, To Whom lt May Concem, The Blue Flower, andNewton's Niece, provide examples to the process of textua1izatİonof history and to the interestingpostmodern version of the past which raise the reader' s curiosity about what really happened in the past. The essay ends with the question of whether we can ever have a satisfactory answer to such a question, except for the reminder that fiction in the guise of history can be more truthrevealing than history itself as narrative.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Bu makale tarihyazımcı üst-kurmaca olarak adlandınlan postmodern romanlarıntarihinmetinselliğive metinlerintarihselliği arasındakiyakın ilişkiyi kullanaraktarihin yansıtıınını nasıl sorunsallaştırdıklarınıincelemektedir. Bu romanlarda görülen tarih ve kunnacanın biçimsel anlamda benzediğini tartışmaktadır.Postmodern romanm tarihyazımınıbir anlatı olarak ele alışını irdeleyen makale, bu tür romanlardageleneksel tarih anlayışının nasıl alaşağı edildiğini bu roman1arınsergilediği geçmiş ve şimdikizamanınyakın ilişkisini gözönünealarakincelemektedir.Böylece TarihBüyük-Anlatıolmaktançıkarılarak kunnaca özellikleri sergilenmiş olmaktadır. Waterland, Famous Last Words, ToWhomIt May Concem, TheBlue Flower, ve Newton's Niece gibiroman1arın olay örgülerineyapılan göndermeler, tarihinmetinselleşme sürecine, ve okura geçmişte gerçekte neler olduğu sorusunusordurantarihin ilginç postmodern anlatımlarınısergileyen postmodernromanada örnekoluşturmaktadır.Makale böyle bir soruyaverilebilecek herhangibir geçerli yanıt olupolmadığı sorusuyla sonuçlanır.Ancak, tarih görünümünebürünmüşkurmacanın bir anlatı olarak tarihtendahaçok doğruya yaklaştığınında altınıçizer.
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