WORDSWORTH HAYDARABAD’DA: MEENA ALEXANDER’IN NAMPALLY ROAD ROMANINDA KİMLİK BUNALIMI

Meena Alexander Hintli bir şair, akademisyen ve yazardır. Sürgün, kimlik krizi, kökleri arama ve göç konuları eserlerinde tartışılmaktadır. Meena Alexander’ın ilk romanı Nampally Road’da bir istisna değildir. Bu kısa roman, yer değiştirme ve ana karakterin kendi yurdunda kendine bir kimlik yaratma çabaları hakkındadır. Mira Kannadical romanın baş kahramanıdır. İngiltere’de dört yıl kalıp İngiliz Edebiyatında doktorasını tamamladıktan sonra Hindistana döner. İngiltere’de rahatsız ve yalnız hissetmektedir. Yeni insanlarla tanışıp yeni yerler görmek istemektedir. Bu nedenle Hyderabad’da bir iş teklifini kabul eder. Hooha Ve Shikha, Mira’nın bütün umutlarının ve hayallerinin tamamıyla farklı şiddet, huzursuzluk ve kargaşa dolu bir Hindistan görünce yıkıldığını iddia eder. Şehirde kendini kapana kısılmış gibi hisseder. Duygularını ve yazdıklarını sorgulamaya başlar. Bu çalışma, başkarakterin yaşadığı çelişkiler ve kendi kimliğini ararken yaşadığı kimlik bunalımı Çağdaş Hindistanın sosyopolitik değişimleriyle birlikte incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır.

WORDSWORTH IN HYDERABAD: IDENTITY CRISIS IN MEENA ALEXANDER’S NAMPALLY ROAD

Meena Alexander is an Indian poet, scholar and writer. Exile, identity crisis, search for roots, migration arediscussed in the works of her. Meena Alexander’s first novel, Nampally Road (1991) is not an exception. Thisshort novel is also about displacement and the protagonist’s attempts to create herself an identity in her nativeland, India. The protagonist is Mira Kannadical. She is an English lecturer who returns to her own country afterstudying in England for four years and getting a PhD on Wordsworth from Nottingham University. She isuncomfortable and alone in England and decides to return her home country. Mira wants to meet new people andsee new places. So, she accepts a teaching position in Hyderabad. Hookha and Shikha assert that “all Mira’shopes and dreams are shattered to see a totally different picture of India which teems with violence, civil unrest,and turbulence” (2013,2). Mira finds herself trapped in the city. She starts to question her own thoughts andwritings. This paper aims to explore the conflicts in the protagonist’s life and identity crisis she experienceswhile searching for her self with the portrayal of socio- political changes in Contemporary India.

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