Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
IX. Uluslararası Batı Kültürü ve Edebiyatları Araştırmaları Sempozyumu, Konya, Türkiye, 15 Eylül 2025, (Özet Bildiri)
This paper examines the intersection of biological aging and cultural displacement within immigrant communities through Hisaye Yamamoto's "Seventeen Syllables" (1949). Employing theoretical frameworks from cultural gerontology, diaspora studies, and necropolitics, this analysis explores how Yamamoto constructs aging as both biological inevitability and active cultural negotiation. The study introduces the concept of "double silence"—the dual marginalization faced by immigrant elders through linguistic exclusion and generational estrangement—and proposes "fractured gerotranscendence" as a framework for understanding immigrant aging experiences. Through close textual analysis integrated with sociohistorical data, this research reveals how Mrs. Hayashi's haiku composition functions as both neurobiological self-defense and cultural resistance against systemic oppression.