Abdulrazak Gurnah‟nın Admiring Silence ve By The Sea romanlarında sessizliğinin postkolonyal ve anlatıbilimsel analizi.

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Özlem Arslan

Danışman: ELİF ÖZTABAK AVCI

Özet:

This thesis offers a postcolonial and narratological study of silence in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novels Admiring Silence (1996) and By the Sea (2001). While presenting the protagonists with a focus on their individual traumas, Gurnah weaves their silence into larger political, social and economic contexts of colonization and post-colonization in Zanzibar and into migrancy in England. Emerging as an inevitable result of some individual, social and political pressure, protagonists’ silence also becomes a tool of resistance against racially, ethnically or culturally discriminating attitudes they are exposed to in England. Narratological analysis of the novels offers an insight into their silence which covers the things they cannot or refuse to say. This study also examines the migrant experience in the novels questioning the meanings of home and identity for Gurnah’s immigrant characters.