Joanna Russ’un Dişi Adam’ı: Bilim Kurgu Romanı ve Feminist Yaklaşımlar
Bu makale Joanna Russ’un Dişi Adam (1975) adlı kitabını bilim kurgu romanı ve feminist yaklaşımlar çerçevesinde incelemektedir. Bilim kurgu alanında hem edebi hem de kuramsal ve eleştirel eserler yazan Russ, bilim kurgu romanının yeni ve alternatif alanlar yaratma potansiyeline vurgu yaparken çoğu bilim kurgu eserinin erkekler tarafından erkek bakış açışı için yazıldığını sıkça vurgulamıştır. Russ’a göre bu tarz eserlerde güç ve kontrol sahibi kadın kimliğine yeteri kadar alan ayrılmamıştır ve de kadınlara karşı olan cinsiyetçi tavırlar devam etmektedir. Bunlara meydan okumanın önemli bir adımı da bilim kurgu romanının tematik ve biçimsel özelliklerinin eleştirel bir bakış açısıyla gözden geçirilmesidir. Bu bağlamda, Dişi Adam Russ’un bilim kurgu romanının içerik ve biçimini yeniden şekillendirme isteğinin güzel bir örneğidir ve bu da kendini Russ’un tema, olay örgüsü ve anlatım tekniklerini deneysel bir şekilde kullanarak kadınlar için daha özgürleştirici bir alan yaratma çabasıyla kendini belli etmektedir.
Joanna Russ’s The Female Man: Science Fiction and Feminist Perspectives
This article analyzes Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975) withinthe frame of science-fiction genre and her feminist concerns. Being ascience-fiction writer and scholar, in her literary and critical works, Russrecurrently emphasizes that although science-fiction has the potentialto create new contexts to present alternative realities, most sciencefictiontexts are written by men from and for a male perspective. Insuch texts, there is no room for a female identity that has power andagency. For Russ, revisiting the thematic and formal conventions ofthe science-fiction is urgent to challenge misogynist attitudes towardswomen. Within this framework, this article argues that The FemaleMan reflects Russ’s aspiration to reshape the content and form ofscience-fiction, which makes itself apparent in her engagement withthemes, plot and narrative techniques that she experiments with in heraspiration to create a more liberating context for women.
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