KURMACADA KUIR'IN KANONLAŞMASI: ALAN HOLLINGHURST'ÜN İNGİLİZ ROMANINDAKİ YERİ

Aşağıda sunulan makale, İngiliz romancı Alan Hollinghurst’ün kurmacasını, eşcinsellik temalarını irdeleyen modern İngiliz romanında bir bağlama oturtmayı amaçlamaktadır. Çalışma, E.M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood ve Ronald Firbank’ın romanlarını inceleyerek, Alan Hollinghurst’ün romanlarında işlenen temalarla bağlar kuracaktır. Bu karşılaştırma, İngiliz romanında eşcinselliğin ve kuir karakterlerin betimlenme biçimindeki evrimi açığa çıkaracaktır. Kendisinden önceki yazarlardan farklı olarak, Hollinghurst eşcinselliğe sadece gizlenmesi ya da açıklanması beklenen bir kimlik olarak değil, metinsel bir olgu olarak bakmaktadır. Hollinghurst, eşcinsel kimliği ve karakteri anlamada daha geniş bir çerçeve çizmektedir. Hollinghurst’ün kurmacasının, İngiliz romanında, eşcinsel karakteri bir dışlanmışlık nedeni olarak değil, daha geniş bir insanlık deneyimi ve kimliği olarak gören bir ‘kuir’ kanon oluşturduğu söylenebilir.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Alan Hollinghurst, Modern İngiliz Romanı, Kuir Kuram, Toplumsal Cinsiyet

CANONIZING QUEER IN FICTION: THE PLACE OF ALAN HOLLINGHURST IN THE BRITISH NOVEL

The present study aims at contextualizing the British novelist Alan Hollinghurst’s fiction in the modern British Novel dealing with themes of homosexuality. The study will focus on the novels of E.M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood and Ronald Firbank and relate them to the novels of Alan Hollinghurst. Such a comparison will shed light on the evolution of themes of homosexuality and the depiction of queer characters in the British novel. Different from his predecessors, Hollinghurst focuses on homosexuality not only as a concealed or revealed identity, but as a textual phenomenon. Thus, Hollinghurst offers a wider fictional realm for the understanding of homosexual selfhood and identity. It could be argued that Hollinghurst’s fiction builds up a ‘queer’ canon in British fiction that deals with the homosexual experience not as a reason for alienation, but as a lens which opens up to a wider human experience and identity.

Keywords:

Alan Hollinghurst, Modern British Novel, Queer Theory, Gender,

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