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THE ORDEAL OF URBAN WOMEN IN SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN KATHERINE ANNE PORTER’S “THEFT” AND “FLOWERING JUDAS”

Year 2015, Volume: 25 Issue: 2, 93 - 103, 31.07.2015
https://doi.org/10.18069/fusbed.96355

Abstract

Bu çalışma Katherine Anne Porter’ın, içselleştirdikleri ‘Öteki’lik ve ‘Nesne’ kimliği olan kentli kadın kahramanlarının öznel kimlik arayışlarını ve toplumlarındaki ‘Özne’ olma mücadelesini incelemektedir. Çalışmada 20. yüzyılın ilk yıllarının havasını yansıtan ve Amerika’da geçen “Theft” (1929) ve Meksika’da geçen “Flowering Judas” (1929) kentli kadınlar açısından ele alınmıştır. Porter öykülerde, ataerkil düzene göre yetiştirilmiş, ama hızla modernleşen Amerikan toplumunda kendi ayakları üzerinde durabilen, öte yandan tinsel yaşamında yalnız ve mutsuz olan kadın kahramanları betimlemektedir. Yazar, kadın kahramanların mücadelesini anlatırken kimlik arayışlarındaki başarısızlıklarında bütünüyle ataerkil düzeni suçlamaz, onların karakterlerinde de kusurlar bulur. Karakterler bir yanda eğitimli ve ekonomik özgürlük sahibidirler ama düşledikleri yaşam ve gerçeklikleri, toplumsal cinsiyetleri, toplumsal statüleri ve karşı cinsle olan ilişkileri arasına sıkışıp kalmışlardır. Düşlerini gerçekleştirmek için yeteri kadar cesaret ve gerçeklik hissine sahip değillerdir. Dolayısıyla Porter kadın karakterlerin kimlik oluşturmada benzer sıkıntıları yaşadıklarını gösterir.

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Year 2015, Volume: 25 Issue: 2, 93 - 103, 31.07.2015
https://doi.org/10.18069/fusbed.96355

Abstract

References

  • Arima, Hiroko. (2006). Beyond and Alone The Theme of Isolation in Selected Short Fiction of Kate Chopin, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
  • Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. (1976). Two Washes in the Morning and a Bridge Party at Night: The American Housewife between the Wars. Journal of Women's Studies, 3, 147-172.
  • De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex (1952). (Trans. H.M. Parshley). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1989).
  • DeMouy, Jane Krause. (1983). Katherine Anne Porter's Women: The Eye of Her Fiction. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
  • Flanders, Jane. (Fall, 1976). “Katherine Anne Porter and the Ordeal of Southern Womanhood” The Southern Literary Journal, 9 (1), 47-60.
  • Givner, Joan. (1982). Katherine Anne Porter: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  • Harbour, Darlene Rue. (2001). “Katherine Anne Porter’s Birthdays”. From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter. Ed. Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press.
  • Harwin, Maggie. (Fall 2008). “Katherine Anne Porter's Women and the Institutions that Ensnare Them: Confinement and the Will for Freedom in Flowering Judas and Other Stories”. A Senior Paper. The University of North Carolina: Asheville.
  • Hendrick, Willene and Hendrick, George. (1988). Katherine Anne Porter. Ed. Kenneth Eble. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall and Co.
  • Johnson, Rob. (2001). “A ‘taste for the exotic’: Revolutionary Mexico and the Short Stories of Katherine Anne Porter and María Christina Mena”. From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter. Ed. Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press.
  • Koçsoy, F. Gül. (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter's Four ‘Failures’: Their Illusions and Defects”. e- Journal of New World Sciences Academy (NWSA), 3 (2), 175-184.
  • Marsden, Malcolm M. (Apr., 1967). “Love as Threat in Katherine Anne Porter’s Fiction”. Twentieth Century Literature, 13 (1), 29-38.
  • Porter, Katherine Anne. (1965). “Flowering Judas”. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. (90-103). New York and London: A Harvest/HBJ Book.
  • --------------. (1965). “Theft”. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. (59-66). New York and London: A Harvest/HBJ Book.
  • Prager, Leonard. (1960). “Getting and Spending: Porter’s ‘Theft’ ”. Perspective 11, 230- 234.
  • Riney, Erin Kelly. (3-Aug-2007). “Feminist Re-Visioning and Women’s Writing: The Second Wave’s Effects on Katherine Anne Porter’s Literary Legacy.” Access: 22-Oct-2013, http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ resolver/1840.16/258.
  • Stein, William Bysshe. (1960). “ ‘Theft’: Porter’s Politics of Modern Love”. Perspective 11, 223-28.
  • Titus, Mary E. (1997). “The ‘Booby Trap’ of Love: Artist and Sadist in Katherine Anne Porter's Mexico Fiction”. Contemporary Literary Criticism 101, 235-242.
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Primary Language English
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Authors

Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız

F. Gül Koçsoy

Publication Date July 31, 2015
Submission Date January 31, 2016
Published in Issue Year 2015 Volume: 25 Issue: 2

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APA Ayyıldız, N. E., & Koçsoy, F. G. (2015). THE ORDEAL OF URBAN WOMEN IN SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN KATHERINE ANNE PORTER’S “THEFT” AND “FLOWERING JUDAS”. Firat University Journal of Social Sciences, 25(2), 93-103. https://doi.org/10.18069/fusbed.96355