Pat Barker’ın sanayi-sonrası toplumu işçi sınıfı romanlarında annelik kavramı: Union street ve Liza’s England üzerine bir araştırma.

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Bircan Çağlar

Danışman: ELİF ÖZTABAK AVCI

Özet:

This thesis aims to explore issues such as motherhood, poverty, entrapment, procreation, abortion, alienation and violence in Pat Barker’s two early post-industrial novels Union Street and Liza’s England by foregrounding the role of socio-economic factors in female characters’ oppression. Christine Delphy’s Close to Home and Stevi Jackson’s “Women and the Family” have been used as a theoretical framework in order to explore Barker’s portrayal of working-class wives’ and mothers’ oppression in a patriarchal society. The novels’ emphasis on how poverty limits possibilities, affects the experience of motherhood, causes moral ambiguities and violence is underlined through an analysis of the treatment of motherhood in the novels. Barker’s critical stance to the experience of motherhood her exploration of the ways in which the practices of motherhood are contingent upon other factors such as poverty, hard work and, constant procreation are studied in the light of Anne Woollet, Anne Phoenix and Eva Llyod’s Motherhood: Meanings, Practices and Ideologies. This thesis also analyses the ambiguity of relationships between mothers and daughters and the socioeconomic factors shaping the practices of motherhood.