GEÇMİŞ ZAMANIN TARİHSEL ÜSTKURMACASI: KENDİNİ MEYDANA GETİREN ROMAN TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Postmodern tarihsel anlatılar, tarihçeyi büyük bir anlatı olarak reddederek, kendindenbilinçlive kendini yansıtıcı, üstkurgu, kendini meydana getiren (kendi oluşumunu anlatan)ve üstkurmaca gibi yeni deneysel anlatıları ortaya çıkarır. Bu makalede sunmayaçalıştığım, Raymond Federman'ın yazar-anlatıcının yazım sürecini işleyen To Whom ItMay Concern adlı kendini meydana getiren (kendi oluşumunu anlatan) romanında,postmodernizmin dille oyununun geçmişi yeniden inşa etmede ve yeniden yazmasında nasılönemli bir rol oynadığıdır. Tarihin gerçekliği, tarihin kimin objektifinden anlatıldığınabağlıdır. Bu makalede öne sürdüğüm en önemli nokta, metnin her okunduğunda nasılyeniden yazıldığı gibi geçmiş ya da tarih de gerçekten hatırlandığı her zaman yenidenyazıldığıdır. Tarih yeniden anlatıldığı sürece başka bir tarih olmaya devam eder. Buçalışmanın amacı, Raymond Federman'ın gerçekliği ve kurgusu, geçmişi ve gerçekliği,tarihi ve kurguyu, kurguyu ve gerçekliği bulanıklaştıran tarihsel üstkurmaca olan ToWhom It May Concern romanını analiz etmektir.

hiSTORiographic Metafiction of the Past Time: A self-begetting novel To Whom It May Concern

selfconscious and self-reflexive as surfiction, self-begetting and metafiction by rejecting history as a grand narrative. I will attempt to present in this article how postmodernism’s playfulness on language plays an important role in reconstructing and rewriting the past in Raymond Federman’s self-begetting novel To Whom It May Concern which weaves the writing process of the author-narrator. The reality of history depends on whose lens of the hiStory is narrated. The crucial point I can assert in this article is how the text is rewritten every time it is read and the history or past is also rewritten every time it is actually remembered. As long as the history is retold it continues to be another history. The aim of this study is to analyse Raymond Federman’s historiographic metafictional novel To Whom It May Concern which blurs fact and fiction, past and reality, history and fiction, fiction and reality. Keywords: metafiction

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