A Model of Adaptation and Success: How I Became a Beurgeoise Bir Uyum ve Başarı Modeli Örneği: Nasıl Bir Beurgeoise Oldum
Folklor/Edebiyat, cilt.31, sa.121, ss.245-258, 2025 (ESCI, Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 31 Sayı: 121
- Basım Tarihi: 2025
- Doi Numarası: 10.22559/folklor.2770
- Dergi Adı: Folklor/Edebiyat
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Directory of Open Access Journals, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.245-258
- Anahtar Kelimeler: acculturation, culture, identity, integration, migration
- Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The term of acculturation, first used by the American anthropologist J.W. Powell, traces its origins back to the Code of Hammurabi and Plato; in general, in the case of migrants, it refers to the interaction between cultures of origin and host cultures and includes four different strategies: integration, separation, assimilation and marginalization. The sociocultural and psychological consequences of the acculturation process vary at individual and societal levels. The duration of the migrant’s contact with the host culture, cultural distance and the conscious or unconscious choices made by the migrant affect acculturation. In recent times, acculturation, which is one of the favorite topics of literature as well as sociology, anthropology, linguistics and philosophy, has a privileged place especially in “Beur literature”. In this study, the novel Comment je suis devenue une beurgeoise (How I became a beurgeoise) by Razika Zitouni, one of the authors of “Beur literature” in France, will be analyzed in terms of integration within the framework of the concept of acculturation in the adventure of Razika, a second generation young girl in a family immigrating to France from Algeria, where the patriarchal system is dominant, to create a new identity in the host culture by preserving the main elements of her own culture of origin and to feel herself French at the cultural level.