F. Scott Fitzgerald'ın Uçarı Kızlar ve Filozoflar ve Jazz Çağı Öyküleri'nin yeniden tarihi okuması

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, who had a profound effect on American Literature of the 1920s, wished for making his readers feel the time he lived in every aspect for better or worse. Therefore, besides fiction, his works include the reflection of real events. New Historical approach, which overtly points up historical and cultural context on the texts differently from the conventional conception of history, helps to read his works in the same manner. That movement, which was come out by Stephen Greenblatt in 1980s, pursues a goal of scrutinizing the text by looking at the culture of the term. In this thesis, in the light of New Historicism I aim to unveil how hegemonic ideology and culture of Fitzgerald's time shape his and his characters' identities and dreams. Accordingly, in Fitzgerald's books Flappers and Philosophers and Tales from the Jazz Age, it will be scrutinized how the identities of the characters are on the way of shaping and eventually shaped without coercing in the direction of current hegemonic power.