Ethical Life Redefined in Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals

Bu çalışma genç kuşak Amerikan romancılarından Jonathan Safran Foerın Hayvanları Yemek (2009)adlı kurmaca-dışı eserini iki etik çerçevede inceler. İlk olarak, Foer çağdaş Amerikan kurmaca-dışı yazınının etik düşünme potansiyelini ortaya çıkarıp gündelik ahlaki varoluşumuzun yok sayılan ve önemsenmeyen yönlerini inceler ve bu etik düşünme şeklinin gereksinim duyduğu derinlemesine araştırmanınve entelektüel yaklaşımın önemini vurgular. İkinci olarak, Hayvanları Yemek kendi başına etik bir girişimolmakla beraber, edebiyat çalışmalarında son zamanlarda ortaya çıkan ve teorik çerçevesi roman incelemeleriyle sınırlı kalan etik dönüş akımına yeni ufuklar açar. Hayvanları Yemekin etik duruşunun detaylı bir okumasını yapan ve eserin güncel etik edebiyat eleştirisini zenginleştiren katkılarını tartışan buçalışma, çağdaş Amerikan edebiyatında kurmaca-dışı türünün hakikate dayalı ve etik hikâye anlatımı ileortaya çıkan yeni bir yönelimi tartışmaya açar.

Jonathan Safran Foer in Hayvanları Yemek Adlı Eserinde Yeniden Tanımlanan Etik Yaşam

This study analyzes the young American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer s astounding work ofcreative nonfiction Eating Animals (2009) from two ethical frameworks. First, Foer demonstratescontemporary American creative nonfiction s propensity for ethical reflection and dedication to theforceful investigation of the disregarded and dismissed aspects of our daily moral existence, anddemonstrates the sheer amount of research as well as intellectual bearing that such reflection requires.Second, inasmuch as Eating Animals is a study in/of ethics, it also presents new vistas for the recentethical turn in literary studies whose theoretical focus remains limited to the study of the novel.Through a close reading of Eating Animals for its avowed ethical stance and its enriching contribution inthe mode of a transfigured reenactment of the current (re)turn to ethics within literary studies, this studybears witness to a new direction in contemporary American literature that draws its force fromcontemporary creative nonfiction s increasing proclivity for truthful and ethical storytelling.

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