“CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST

Yıl: 2018 Cilt: 0 Sayı: 33 Sayfa Aralığı: 181 - 187 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.30794/pausbed.400190 İndeks Tarihi: 19-02-2020

“CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST

Öz:
This article explores the possibility of representing collective violence such as the Holocaust within the context of D. M.Thomas’s novel The White Hotel (1981). It argues that The White Hotel lays bare the complicated relationship both betweenhistory and fiction and the burden of traumatic representation. By giving us a fictionalized story of a Holocaust victim,Thomas, offers the immediacy of the personal experiences one sees in eyewitness accounts; but, at the same time, byresisting a realist mode of narrative, the novel offers the possibility of remaining faithful to the resistance of collective traumato representation. Ultimately, The White Hotel urges the reader to ask some fundamental ethical, narratological, and politicalquestions about the representation of collective trauma. By representing the Holocaust in fiction, D.M. Thomas challengesthe wildly-held belief both in Holocaust survivors and the intellectuals studying the Holocaust that Holocaust is consideredbeyond representability.
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“YAŞAYANLAR ÖLÜLER ADINA KONUŞABİLİR Mİ?” BEYAZ OTEL VE HOLOCAUST’UN KURGUSALLAŞTIRILMASI

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Bu makale, Holocaust gibi toplu kıyım deneyimlerini temsil edebilmenin imkânlarını D.M. Thomas’ın Beyaz Otel (1981) romanı çerçevesinde tartışmaktadır. Çalışma, Beyaz Otel romanının tarihsel ve kurgusal olan ile travmatik temsilin zorlukları arasındaki çetrefilli ilişkiyi açığa çıkardığını iddia etmektedir. Romanda, bir Holocaust kurbanının kurgusal öyküsünü yazan Thomas, bizlere görgü tanığı anlatılarındaki kişisel deneyimden doğan doğrudanlığı sunar; ancak, aynı zamanda, realist bir anlatımı da ret ederek travmanın temsiliyet zorluklarını da yansıtır. Sonuç olarak, Beyaz Otel okuyucuyu travmanın temsil olanakları hakkında etik, anlatısal, ve politik bazı temel sorular sormak zorunda bırakır. Thomas, Holocaust’u kurgu formunda temsil ederek Holocaust’dan kurtulanlar ve Holocaust’u çalışanlar arasında yaygın bir görüş olan, Holocaust’un temsil edilemez oluşu fikrine de karşı çıkar.
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Chicago YILDIZ BAĞÇE Hülya “CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST. (2018): 181 - 187. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
MLA YILDIZ BAĞÇE Hülya “CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST. , 2018, ss.181 - 187. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
AMA YILDIZ BAĞÇE H “CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST. . 2018; 181 - 187. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
Vancouver YILDIZ BAĞÇE H “CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST. . 2018; 181 - 187. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
IEEE YILDIZ BAĞÇE H "“CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST." , ss.181 - 187, 2018. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
ISNAD YILDIZ BAĞÇE, Hülya. "“CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST". (2018), 181-187. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.400190
APA YILDIZ BAĞÇE H (2018). “CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 0(33), 181 - 187. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
Chicago YILDIZ BAĞÇE Hülya “CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 0, no.33 (2018): 181 - 187. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
MLA YILDIZ BAĞÇE Hülya “CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, vol.0, no.33, 2018, ss.181 - 187. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
AMA YILDIZ BAĞÇE H “CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 2018; 0(33): 181 - 187. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
Vancouver YILDIZ BAĞÇE H “CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 2018; 0(33): 181 - 187. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
IEEE YILDIZ BAĞÇE H "“CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST." Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 0, ss.181 - 187, 2018. 10.30794/pausbed.400190
ISNAD YILDIZ BAĞÇE, Hülya. "“CAN THE LIVING EVER SPEAK FOR THE DEAD”: THE WHITE HOTEL AND FICTIONALIZING THE HOLOCAUST". Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 33 (2018), 181-187. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.400190