OĞUZ ATAY’IN TUTUNAMAYANLAR ESERİNDE BAŞKİŞİLERİN ÖZNELLİK ARAYIŞI

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OĞUZ ATAY’IN TUTUNAMAYANLAR ESERİNDE BAŞKİŞİLERİN ÖZNELLİK ARAYIŞI

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Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, National Refreed University Journal, National, MLA International Bibliography, 2020, vol 7, pp 45-62

Summary

The purpose of this study is to analyse the concepts of subject and subjectivity focusing on Selim Işık and Turgut Özben, who could both be positioned as the protagonists of Oğuz Atay’s Tutunamayanlar. These two characters are compared in terms of their experience of subjectivity referring to the Foucauldian concepts of subject and power and Althusserian concepts of subject and ideology. This study basically discusses how free the characters really are in their search of subjectivity. This study argues that Turgut Özben was subjected to Foucauldian power until Selim Işık’s death and never attempted at a quest for subjectivity as a subject responsible for his own deeds. Selim Işık, however, is claimed to have set out on a quest for his own subjectivity. Özben does not get out of the ideology he is born into whereas Işık prefers to question it at the expense of his life. This study discusses the possibility of subjectivity considering Turgut Özben’s insanity and Selim Işık’s suicide.

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