İmparatorun Bebeği ve Geniş, Geniş Bir Deniz romanlarında otorite, ötekilik ve sessizlik kavramlarını yeniden tanımlamak

Bernardine Evaristo and Jean Rhys, two pivotal figures in revisionist writing, blend fiction with fact, reality with fantasy, and black culture with British history in their poetic novels; The Emperor's Babe, and Wide Sargasso Sea. They present a compelling critique of historical erasure and politics of marginalization by race, gender, and culture. Through London's position intertwined with authority and norms, Evaristo and Rhys demonstrate how the colonial city and order devalue the existence of the 'othered' figures in these novels, especially Antoinette and Zuleika. Then, they challenge London's centralization as a hub for authority, control, and order by reawakening these 'othered' figures' connection to the natural world. From there, the thesis turns to the exploration of how 'alterity' loses its meaning adopted in the colonial language and culture. Evaristo and Rhys treat all the colonialist trials to define or make up a form of alterity as a disease and find the cure by incorporating multiple cultures and languages into their novels. They, so to speak, celebrate this cultural and linguistic diversity by confronting the prevailing myths that reduce the differences to a single unified form. By analyzing Wide Sargasso Sea and The Emperor's Babe within the framework of these findings, this study delves into the ways in which both authors redefine 'authority,' 'alterity,' and 'silence.' Through an ecofeminist approach to the city/nature and order/disorder dichotomies, this research aims to shed light on the transformative power of nature and poetry in revising the socio-political norms and customs in the works of Rhys and Evaristo. Keywords: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, Bernardine Evaristo, The Emperor's Babe, ecofeminism, alterity, deconstruction and revision