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TRAVMA ÇÖZÜMÜ OLARAK ANTİ-NATALİZM
ANTI-NATALISM AS A REMEDY FOR TRAUMA

Author(s): Cansu Özge Özmen
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Namık Kemal Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi
Keywords: Anti-Natalism; Trauma; 9/11 Novels; Jonathan Franzen; Overpopulation;

Summary/Abstract: Post 9/11 American literature dealing with a collective national trauma created a new venue not only where healing narratives emerged but also to ponder on a whole new scope of traumatic stressors on a global scale. Expanding into the realm of the yet unwitnessed as opposed to the original trauma may read like a dissociative response, that refuses to face the immensity of the traumatic event or an exceptionalist response that confines the experience to U.S. borders. Rather than avoidance, however, the dissociative split in Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom (2010) harbors real and possible trauma both on a personal and collective level. Franzen expands an event into transgenerational trauma, loss, betrayal and grief, global overpopulation, climate change and presents the ultimate solution to all.

  • Issue Year: 6/2018
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 149-158
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Turkish
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