Journals / RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi / 2018 / Cilt: 12 - Sayı: 12

Women and the Nation’s Narrative in Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age and Roma Tearne’s Bone China

Tahmima Anam’ın A Golden Age ve Roma Tearne’nin Bone China Eserlerinde Kadınlar ve Ulusal Anlatı

Pages
284–291
DOI
—
🏛️Bibliographic metadata and full text access for this article are provided via DergiPark.
DergiPark Record ↗
✨

AI Summary & Key Takeaways

AI Insight
⚡ TL;DR(Too Long; Didn't Read)

The two novels promise hope for the transformation of women’s roles and status, and emphasise the significance of women’s narratives and collective memory in the preservation of national identity.

📌 3 Key Takeaways

🎯
Objective & Hypothesis:This article aims to discuss gendered parameters of national identity and collective memory in contemporary South Asian women’s writing.
📊
Key Findings & Data:Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age (2007) and Roma Tearne’s Bone China (2010), in this context, represent the positive transformation of women’s roles in the public and private spheres, as well as the understanding of femininity and masculinity in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh during the independence war.
💡
Conclusion & Impact:The two novels promise hope for the transformation of women’s roles and status, and emphasise the significance of women’s narratives and collective memory in the preservation of national identity.
🔬Design:Research Article
📍Scope:2007 Verileri
⚙️Variables:Cinsiyet · ulusal kimlik · kolektif bellek

Abstract

This article aims to discuss gendered parameters of national identity and collective memory in contemporary South Asian women’s writing. Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age (2007) and Roma Tearne’s Bone China (2010), in this context, represent the positive transformation of women’s roles in the public and private spheres, as well as the understanding of femininity and masculinity in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh during the independence war. In the reproduction of national identity, there is an emphasis on the significance of privatised domestic space, women’s involvement in the national struggle, and a feminised collective memory in historically male-constructed nations. In A Golden Age, despite her traditional gender roles and controversial national identity, Rehana becomes a defender of Bangladesh due to her altering political views, while her daughter, Maya, symbolises the progressive role of a new generation of women in the movement. In Bone China, besides civil war and resistance, immigration enforces a loss of collective identity, whilst women’s domestic and public lives are subject to profound change. The two novels promise hope for the transformation of women’s roles and status, and emphasise the significance of women’s narratives and collective memory in the preservation of national identity.

Özet

Bu makale, çağdaş Güney Asyalı kadınların eserlerinde ulusal kimliğin ve kolektif belleğin cinsiyet parametrelerini ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu bağlamda, Tahmima Anam’ın A Golden Age (2007) ve Roma Tearne’nin Bone China (2010) adlı çalışmaları, kadınların kamusal ve özel alandaki rollerinin olumlu anlamda dönüşümünü ve Sri Lanka ile Bangladeş’in bağımsızlık savaşları sürecinde kadınlık ve erkeklik kavramlarındaki değişimi ele almaktadır. Ulusal kimliğin yeniden üretilmesinde, özel alanın önemine, kadınların ulusal mücadeleye katılımına ve tarihsel olarak erkek-egemen milletlerde kadınların oluşturduğu kolektif belleğe vurgu yapılmaktadır. A Golden Age’de, geleneksel cinsiyet rollerine ve tartışmalı ulusal kimliğine rağmen, Rehana değişen siyasi görüşüyle Bangladeş’in savunucusu olurken, kızı Maya, direnişte yeni nesil kadınlarının gelişen rolünü temsil etmektedir. Bone China romanında ise, iç savaş ve direnişin yanı sıra, göç unsuru kolektif kimliğin yitirilmesine yol açarken, kadınların özel ve kamusal yaşamları büyük bir değişikliğe maruz kalmaktadır. Her iki eser de, kadının rollerinin ve statüsünün dönüşümü açısından umut vaat etmekte ve ulusal kimliğin korunmasında kadın anlatılarının ve kolektif belleğin önemini vurgulamaktadır.

🔖

Cite This Article

SHAH, Z. H. (2018). Women and the Nation’s Narrative in Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age and Roma Tearne’s Bone China. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, Cilt: 12 - Sayı: 12, 284–291. https://ajindex.com/articles/304564

📄 Full Text PDF Viewer

📄

PDF görüntüleyici hazırlanıyor...

References (7)

  1. Anam, T. (2007). A golden age. London: John Murray. Boehmer, E. (2005). Stories of women: Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation. New York: Manchester University Press.
  2. De Mel, N. (2001). Women and the nation’s narrative: Gender and nationalism in twentieth century Sri Lanka. USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  3. Moghadam, V. M. (1994). Gender and national identity. UK: The United Nations University. Mohanty, C. T. (2003). Feminism without borders. London: Duke University Press.
  4. Puri, J. (1999). Women, body and desire in postcolonial India. New York: Routledge. Stapleton, K. & Wilson, J. (2004). Gender, nationality and identity: A discursive study. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 11.1: 45-60.
  5. Tearne, R. (2010). Bone China. London: The Harper Press.
  6. Mohanty, T., Russo, A. & Torres L. (Eds.). (1991). Third world women and the politics of feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  7. Yuval-Davis, N. 1997. Gender and nation. London: Sage. West, L. A. 2013. Introduction. In L.A. West (Ed.), Feminist nationalism. Oxon: Routledge.