Alienation in Families and the Breakdown in Children’s Educational Process: Ann Tyler’s Teenage Wasteland (1983)
This research article highlights that postmodern era after the modern period causes fragmentation because of the existence of alienation and isolation senses in family units and ends up undesirable failure in children’s educational process as reflected in American writer Ann Tyler’s Teenage...
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| Language: | English |
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Selcuk University Press
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://sefad.selcuk.edu.tr/index.php/sefad/article/view/1558/1147 |
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| Summary: | This research article highlights that postmodern era after the modern
period causes fragmentation because of the existence of alienation and
isolation senses in family units and ends up undesirable failure in
children’s educational process as reflected in American writer Ann
Tyler’s Teenage Wasteland. Thereby, these are concurrently the basics of
modernism that destructs human lives. Similar to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste
Land, Tyler emphasizes the existence of a dramatic monologue
deriving from the disillusionment in the infertile land and the
alienation in social living. Tyler specifies the presence of a meaningless
life and alienation for children. At the same time, Tyler concerns how
parents become unable to deal with their children in their intensive
working life. She hints that children become unsuccessful in their
educational process due to their parents’ intensive working. Therefore,
the teenager and his parents have mutual lack of communication in
their alienated worlds. A “wasteland” in the target short story implies
having the sense of loneliness which causes failure in children’s
educational world and rises the disturbance in family units.
Accordingly, family members are the victims of their working life and
embrace the senses of alienation and isolation in their inner worlds.
Therefore, this article will pursue a psychoanalytical consideration in
the selected short story. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-4921 2458-908X |