Becoming-woman in Amin Maalouf’s “The First Century After Beatrice / Amin Maalouf’un “Béatrice’ten Sonra Birinci Yüzyıl” Adlı Yapıtında Kadın-Oluş
Although Lebanese-French author Amin Maalouf mostly deals with the issues on history, society, East-West dichotomy, cultural diversity, immigration, exile, and identity in his works, he questions the future of all humanity through women who are endangered by scientific developments as portraye...
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| description | Although Lebanese-French author Amin Maalouf mostly deals with the issues on
history, society, East-West dichotomy, cultural diversity, immigration, exile, and
identity in his works, he questions the future of all humanity through women who
are endangered by scientific developments as portrayed in the novel The First
Century after Beatrice. This article aims to convey how Amin Maalouf’s writings
emphasize the quantitative dimension regarding the inequality between women
and men and his concerns about the future of women, by adding a new dimension
to the situation as well as the future of women. With this, first we will evaluate
the technological and scientific developments affirmed by today’s societies within
the ecofeminist movement scope, which emphasizes the relationship between the
exploitation of women and nature. In addition, this article emphasizes that a world
who loses its women will bring its own end. Finally, we will examine the loss
of femininity within the conceptual framework of becoming-woman as set forth
by Deleuze and Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari attache importance to the concept
of becoming, which pushes the limits of human beings in the context of their
potential to develop by approaching the current conditions via the other realities
they encounter. While emphasizing that the multiplicity and diversity of a world is
destroyed without women, Maalouf indicates that with the deprivation of daughters
to be born through Béatrice, not only women but all humanity will gradually lose its
hope pertaining to the realization of the process of becoming-woman. The concept
of becoming, which aims to establish a suitable foundation for the questioning
of the existing order rather than be seen as a goal to be reached, requires rattling the existing order. By constructing a world whose balance is deteriorated with
the decrease of the female population and the elimination of the possibilities of
becoming, Amin Maalouf provides the necessary disorder for the reader to enter
both the chaotic and the dystopic world he constructs. Consequently, the image of
the corrupted order de-territorializes the reader and paves the way for them to be
critical towards the idealized scientific development. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-232995e499b24e318a2eb0bdd27efcea2022-12-22T03:29:26ZengCyprus International UniversityFolklor/Edebiyat1300-74912022-08-012811179180810.22559/folklor.2225Becoming-woman in Amin Maalouf’s “The First Century After Beatrice / Amin Maalouf’un “Béatrice’ten Sonra Birinci Yüzyıl” Adlı Yapıtında Kadın-OluşEylem Aksoy Alp0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0896-7537Dr.Although Lebanese-French author Amin Maalouf mostly deals with the issues on history, society, East-West dichotomy, cultural diversity, immigration, exile, and identity in his works, he questions the future of all humanity through women who are endangered by scientific developments as portrayed in the novel The First Century after Beatrice. This article aims to convey how Amin Maalouf’s writings emphasize the quantitative dimension regarding the inequality between women and men and his concerns about the future of women, by adding a new dimension to the situation as well as the future of women. With this, first we will evaluate the technological and scientific developments affirmed by today’s societies within the ecofeminist movement scope, which emphasizes the relationship between the exploitation of women and nature. In addition, this article emphasizes that a world who loses its women will bring its own end. Finally, we will examine the loss of femininity within the conceptual framework of becoming-woman as set forth by Deleuze and Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari attache importance to the concept of becoming, which pushes the limits of human beings in the context of their potential to develop by approaching the current conditions via the other realities they encounter. While emphasizing that the multiplicity and diversity of a world is destroyed without women, Maalouf indicates that with the deprivation of daughters to be born through Béatrice, not only women but all humanity will gradually lose its hope pertaining to the realization of the process of becoming-woman. The concept of becoming, which aims to establish a suitable foundation for the questioning of the existing order rather than be seen as a goal to be reached, requires rattling the existing order. By constructing a world whose balance is deteriorated with the decrease of the female population and the elimination of the possibilities of becoming, Amin Maalouf provides the necessary disorder for the reader to enter both the chaotic and the dystopic world he constructs. Consequently, the image of the corrupted order de-territorializes the reader and paves the way for them to be critical towards the idealized scientific development.https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/251778671_11-%20Amin%20maalouf%20Eylem%20Aksoy.pdfamin maaloufdeleuze and guattariecofeminism |
| spellingShingle | Eylem Aksoy Alp Becoming-woman in Amin Maalouf’s “The First Century After Beatrice / Amin Maalouf’un “Béatrice’ten Sonra Birinci Yüzyıl” Adlı Yapıtında Kadın-Oluş Folklor/Edebiyat amin maalouf deleuze and guattari ecofeminism |
| title | Becoming-woman in Amin Maalouf’s “The First Century After Beatrice / Amin Maalouf’un “Béatrice’ten Sonra Birinci Yüzyıl” Adlı Yapıtında Kadın-Oluş |
| title_full | Becoming-woman in Amin Maalouf’s “The First Century After Beatrice / Amin Maalouf’un “Béatrice’ten Sonra Birinci Yüzyıl” Adlı Yapıtında Kadın-Oluş |
| title_fullStr | Becoming-woman in Amin Maalouf’s “The First Century After Beatrice / Amin Maalouf’un “Béatrice’ten Sonra Birinci Yüzyıl” Adlı Yapıtında Kadın-Oluş |
| title_full_unstemmed | Becoming-woman in Amin Maalouf’s “The First Century After Beatrice / Amin Maalouf’un “Béatrice’ten Sonra Birinci Yüzyıl” Adlı Yapıtında Kadın-Oluş |
| title_short | Becoming-woman in Amin Maalouf’s “The First Century After Beatrice / Amin Maalouf’un “Béatrice’ten Sonra Birinci Yüzyıl” Adlı Yapıtında Kadın-Oluş |
| title_sort | becoming woman in amin maalouf s the first century after beatrice amin maalouf un beatrice ten sonra birinci yuzyil adli yapitinda kadin olus |
| topic | amin maalouf deleuze and guattari ecofeminism |
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