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Writing Down the War: The Child's Perspective

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  • Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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  • 2012

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Abstract (2. Language): 
The paper focuses on two contemporary novels both of which are set against the backdrop of a civil war, namely Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun} It attempts to put the novels into a larger context of trauma fiction, a genre that gained prominence in the last decades. As both novels present different war conflicts of the Twentieth Century century and are full of explicit depictions of people being killed, the paper points to the representation of war and demonstrates how authors approach the topic. A special attention is paid to traumatized children who are forced to battle with nightmarish images and the strategies they use to come into terms with their war experiences. Transformed by the horrific events in their lives, the novels' protagonists discover the power of storytelling and thus provide the readers with a child's perspective on the, often incomprehensible, world of the adults.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Bu araştırma, Lloyd Jones'ın Mister Pip (2006) ve Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'nin Half of a Yellow Sun adlı iki çağdaş roman üzerine yoğunlaşmaktadır. Arka planlarında bir iç savaş bulunan bu eserleri ele alan bu çalışma, geniş anlamıyla, son yıllarda önem kazanan bir tür olarak ortaya çıkan bir travma kurmacasıdır. Her iki roman da, Yirminci Yüzyıl'da var olan savaşları, bu savaşlara neden olan anlaşmazlıkları ele almaktadır ve içlerinde insanların nasıl öldürüldüklerine dair açık ve net betimlemeler bulunmaktadır. Söz konusu romanlar, yazarlarının da savaş konusundaki bakış açılarını, ayrıca, dile getirmektedirler. Romanlarda, savaş nedeniyle travmaya uğrayan, savaşmaya ve strateji geliştirmeye zorlanan çocukların durumu, onların karabasanlarla dolu savaş deneyimleri irdelenmektedir. Yaşadıkları korkunç olaylar nedeniyle dönüşüm geçiren çocukların durumunu gözler önüne seren romanların başkişileri, hikaye anlatma tekniklerinin gücünü de farkedip kullanarak, okurlarına, bir çocuğun bakış açısından, anlaşılması genellikle zor olan yetişkinler dünyasını tanıtmaktadırlar.
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