Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Karaman 1. Uluslararası Dil ve Edebiyat Kongresi, Karaman, Türkiye, 07 Kasım 2018, ss.91
The
concept of violence that is encouraged by the beliefs and traditions of a
certain culture and committed upon its own components can be referred to the
phrase of ‘cultural violence’. In this sense, it would, of course, embody some
specific ritual acts of sacrifice, banishments, infliction or imposition of a
penalty or communally approved retribution. Contradictions within a given
culture shared by the majority of its assemblage may result in some serious
acts of violence in accordance with the western standards of humanism. Achebe
in The Things Fall Apart tries to
disclose this insight through an indication of violence in a colonial setting
causing both chaos and disruption among the representatives of the
aforementioned culture. The Igbo culture in this post-colonial plot upon which
British colonial practices have been implemented through violence intermingles
with the statements, beliefs and actions of the main character Okonkwo. The
forms of violence condoned and enacted by the Igbo members make known to others
the cultural forces that foster violence as a kind of cultural consumption.
The
aim of this study is to show that violence and cultural conflicts, when
combined with the imperial powers’ attitude towards the colonized [as we
witness today on a global scale the problematic process of Syrian people’s
migration due to violence, terror and hostility], reveal the core relation
between individual choices versus contradictions between principle and
practice. Using traditions of violence, alienating members of a community due
to prevarication, and forcing people to migrate because of moral principles may
pinpoint Achebe’s demonstration of victims of violence as others, otherized
ones, hybrids and/or assimilated characters.