Virginia Woolf, Orlando ve İstanbul

Virginia Woolf’un Orlando (1928) adlı romanı, eleştirmenler tarafından Woolf’un romanına adını veren Orlando karakterinin toplumsal cinsiyet değişimi kapsamında, farklı sosyolojik ve psikanalitik parametrelerde ele alınmış ve roman, Orlando karakterinin erklik ve dişilik normlarına eleştirel bir bakış sunması ve cinsiyet rollerinin esnekliğini vurgulaması bakımından sıklıkla edebiyatta androjini/çiftcinsiyetlilik temsilinin bir örneği olarak düşünülmüştür. Ancak, Orlando’nun toplumsal cinsiyet değişiminin gerçekleştiği yer olan İstanbul, coğrafi ve estetiksel uzam bağlamında edebi eleştirilerde pek dikkate alınmamıştır. Bu sebeple, bu makale İstanbul şehrini, Woolf’un karakterinin toplumsal cinsiyet değişimine olanak sağlayan coğrafi bir uzam olarak incelemeyi ve buradan yola çıkarak Doğu ve Batı arasında bir köprü işlevi gören İstanbul’un, Woolf’un romanında toplumsal cinsiyet normlarını ve rollerini sentezleyen bir uzam olarak tartışmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu saptamalar doğrultusunda, bu çalışma, Woolf’un romanının uzamsal yönünü öne çıkarıp, uzamın estetik ve coğrafi düzlemde çağrıştırdığı anlamları ele alarak, Woolf’un bu romanına çağdaş uzam teorileri ışığında farklı bir eleştirel bakış getirmeyi hedeflemektedir.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando and Istanbul

Regarded as a stimulating representative of androgyny in literature, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) has often been studied within sociological and psychoanalytic parametres that lay the chief focus on Woolf’s protagonist’s sexual transformation. However, the significance of androgyny in Woolf’s novel becomes even more provocative when argued in relation to the place in which the androgynous identity is born, a correlation which seems to have been critically overlooked. This article, therefore, aims to engage with the significance of Istanbul not only as a geographical and aesthetic space that paves the way for Orlando’s transformation but also as a non-gendered space that simultaneously dismantles and sythesizes the normative regulations of gender. Thus, this study seeks to discuss the ways in which Istanbul serves as a symbolic space in Woolf’s literary imagination through an exploration of the geographical and aesthetic implications of Istanbul in Woolf’s novel within the frame of contemporary spatial theories.

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