%0 Journal Article
%T MEMORY AS AN UNRELIABLE SOURCE OF HISTORY AND/OR THE SIMULACRUM OF THE PAST IN JULIAN BARNES¡¯ ENGLAND, ENGLAND
%A Yi£¿it S¨¹mb¨¹l
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%D 2019
%X Writer of a great number of novels, short stories and essays, Julian Barnes has always been reckoned into the post-modernist canon of English literature especially with the theme of suspicion and defiance of metanarratives dominating his fiction. Much of Barnes¡¯ reputation in the last decades of the twentieth century stems from his fearless questioning of totalizing and blindly-accepted narratives that have a claim to ultimate knowledge and meaning. Barnes¡¯ England, England, his eighth novel written under his own name, presents the reader with the problematic nature of issues like national identity, Englishness and documented history with a satirical tone and political implications. Barnes emphasizes the fallibility of human memory in his questioning of history writing and the notions of reality and authenticity, which is reminiscent of Baudrillard¡¯s considerations of meaning and history in the modern world. In this respect, Barnes¡¯ post-modern novel England, England openly problematizes history writing with explicit references to Baudrillard¡¯s theory of the ¡®simulacra¡¯, asserting that documented history is nothing but unreliable copies of the actual past created by a defective memory system
%K simulacrum
%K tarih
%K Julian Barnes
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/tsadergisi/issue/44605/453193