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THE POLITICS OF TIME: DECONSTRUCTING HISTORICAL NARRATIVES IN FEMINIST SPECULATIVE NOVEL: THE POWER

ZAMANIN POLİTİKALARI: FEMİNİST SPEKÜLATİF BİR ROMAN OLAN GÜÇ'TE (THE POWER) TARİHSEL ANLATILARIN YAPISÖKÜMÜ

Şeyda Sivrioğlu(Pamukkale Üniversitesi)0000-0002-7570-7903
Ayşe Nur Beler0009-0006-9213-4365
Pages
34–49
Publication Date
2026-06-30
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Through novel characters, this article aims to demonstrate how history is parodied by dramatising as a form of power and how the ideological mechanisms of patriarchy are reproduced.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Naomi Alderman’s The Power (2016) reconstructs the global history through the reversal of gendered power structures.
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Key Findings & Data:Alderman, who fictionalises a world in which women can generate electric shocks, constructs an alternative historiography that interrogates the relationship between gender, discourse, and governance, inviting readers to question the nature of historical truth and narrative authority.
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Conclusion & Impact:Through novel characters, this article aims to demonstrate how history is parodied by dramatising as a form of power and how the ideological mechanisms of patriarchy are reproduced.
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⚙️Variables:Naomi Alderman · Güç · feminist kuram

Abstract

Naomi Alderman’s The Power (2016) reconstructs the global history through the reversal of gendered power structures. Alderman, who fictionalises a world in which women can generate electric shocks, constructs an alternative historiography that interrogates the relationship between gender, discourse, and governance, inviting readers to question the nature of historical truth and narrative authority. The aim of this paper is to examine The Power through the theoretical lenses of historiographic metafiction and New Historicism. Both frameworks depict how narratives, whether literary or historical, participate in the circulation of power and ideology. Through novel characters, this article aims to demonstrate how history is parodied by dramatising as a form of power and how the ideological mechanisms of patriarchy are reproduced.

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Naomi Alderman’ın Güç (2016) romanı, toplumsal cinsiyet temelli güç yapılarının tersine çevrilmesi ile küresel tarihi yeniden oluşturuyor. Kadınların elektrik şokları üretebilecek fiziksel yeteneğe sahip olduğu bir dünya kurgulayan Alderman, cinsiyet, söylem ve hükmetme arasındaki ilişkiyi sorgulayan alternatif bir tarih yazımı inşa ederek okuyucuları, tarihsel gerçeğin ve anlatı otoritesinin doğasını sorgulamaya davet ediyor. Bu makalenin amacı, Güç romanını tarihi metakurgu ve Yeni Tarihselcilik’in teorik mercekleri aracılığıyla incelemektir. Her iki çerçeve de, ister edebi ister tarihsel olsun, anlatıların güç ve ideolojinin dolaşımına nasıl katıldığını tasvir eder. Bu makale, roman karakterleri aracılığıyla, tarihin bir güç biçimi olarak inşasının romanda nasıl dramatize edilerek parodileştirildiğini ve ataerkilliğin ideolojik mekanizmalarının nasıl yeniden üretildiğini göstermeyi amaçlamaktadır.

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Sivrioğlu, Ş., Beler, A. N. (2026). THE POLITICS OF TIME: DECONSTRUCTING HISTORICAL NARRATIVES IN FEMINIST SPECULATIVE NOVEL: THE POWER. Marmara Üniversitesi Kadın ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Araştırmaları Dergisi, Cilt: 10 Sayı: 1, 34–49. https://ajindex.com/articles/1525939

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