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    Contemporary Refugee Literature: Syria and Beyond
    (Taylor and Francis, 2025) Baglama, Sercan Hamza
    In the twenty-first century, millions have been forcibly displaced due to ethno-religious conflicts, socio-political instability, and economic crises, turning migration into a global phenomenon. The traumatic realities of refugees – imprisonment, torture, loss, discrimination, and marginalisation – have increasingly become subjects of academic inquiry across multiple disciplines. Literature has also played a crucial role in representing these complexities, and offered fictionalised accounts of refugee experiences before, during, and after migration. This book critically examines contemporary refugee narratives, and highlights their potential to universalise the refugee experience. It argues that while contemporary refugee literature challenges dominant representations and reclaims subjectivity, it is also shaped by the Western literary marketplace, which refashions displacement into marketable narratives of resilience and redemption, tempering its radical potential and framing it within apolitical humanitarian discourse that prioritises empathy over structural critique. The book calls for refugee narratives to resist market-driven expectations and engage in epistemic disobedience, challenging dominant frameworks that dictate how refugee experiences should be represented, understood, and consumed. © 2025 Sercan Hamza Bağlama.
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    Margins of Legibility: Social Exclusion, Symbolic Regulation, and Negotiated Justice in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Bursa
    (Oxford Univ Press Inc, 2026) Yasa, Firat; Baglama, Sercan Hamza
    This article examines the socio-legal construction of a marginal figure known as Cinci Arab, whose actions sparked judicial and communal controversy in 1641 Bursa. Drawing systematically on three archival documents-a lawsuit, an imperial decree, and an amicable settlement-this study employs a microhistorical approach to interrogate the interplay between local and imperial authorities and explores how selective visibility, reputational ambiguity, and mediated justice were strategically employed to manage social anxieties. Rather than aiming for empirical clarity, the analysis reveals how Ottoman governance frequently operated through symbolic regulation, classification, and negotiated resolution, highlighting the discursive mechanisms by which individuals were rendered legible or obscure. The case of Cinci Arab thus serves as a critical prism, which demonstrates that archival documents did not function as neutral repositories of truth but as sites where imperial authority was performatively inscribed through structured ambiguity and selective preservation. The findings and analyses presented in the article are grounded in a detailed textual and contextual examination of three entries, each situated within distinct sections of the Bursa qadi court register no. B 113.
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    Migration, Metaphor and Myth in Media Representations: The Ideological Dichotomy of Them and Us
    (Sage Publications Inc, 2018) Arcimaviciene, Liudmila; Baglama, Sercan Hamza
    By focussing on the dichotomized metaphorical strategy and myth creation, this study aims to analyze how the U.S. and the European Union (EU) media respond to the entrenched metaphor of migration and refugee crisis. In this respect, the U.S. and the EU media sources covering the time period from 2015 to 2016 were collected and analyzed in the theoretical framework of conceptual metaphor theory and critical metaphor analysis. By applying the metaphor identification procedure, it has been determined that most of the media narratives contribute to further developing the central bias of migration by means of metaphorical delegitimization that is discursively construed through the binary opposition between them and us. The metaphorical representation has been grouped into two kinds of ideologically represented story lines: (a) the myth of dehumanization, realized through the metaphors of Objects and Commodities; and (b) the myth of moral authority, realized through the metaphors of Natural Phenomena, Crime, and Terrorism. The findings have shown that most of the media narratives both delegitimize and stigmatize the status of a migrant by deeper entrenching the outsider stereotype and, therefore, create the general feelings of instability and intolerance within the EU.
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    Narratives of resistance and political activism in post-1980 Turkish literature: reimagining 1970s Turkey in Muzaffer Oruçoğlu's Tohum and Latife Tekin's Gece Dersleri
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Baglama, Sercan Hamza
    This article offers a comparative critique of Latife Tekin's Gece Dersleri (1986) and Muzaffer Oru & ccedil;o & gbreve;lu's Tohum (1992) as antithetical engagements with the crisis of leftist militancy in 1970s Turkey. Framing post-1980 literature as a site of epistemological struggle, the study interrogates how these texts mobilize divergent aesthetic paradigms to reconfigure the memory of political defeat. Gece Dersleri disarticulates revolutionary grand narratives through fragmentation, interiority, and feminist critique, exposing the patriarchal structures embedded within leftist praxis, whereas Tohum reasserts testimonial authority through a masculinist ethic of endurance and ideological absolutism. Through close attention to narrative form, temporality, and voice, the article argues that these novels instantiate competing modes of remembering and theorizing resistance, and that their juxtaposition reveals not simply a literary divergence, but a broader contestation over the gendered logics, aesthetic norms, and political afterlives of revolutionary discourse in post-coup Turkish memory.
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    Representing the Romani 'other' in contemporary Turkish fiction: Negotiating Romani identity in Ayşegül Devecioğlu's Ağlayan Dağ Susan Nehir
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2025) Gungor, Bilgin; Baglama, Sercan Hamza
    This article interrogates the representation of the Romani 'other' in Ay & scedil;eg & uuml;l Devecio & gbreve;lu's A & gbreve;layan Da & gbreve; Susan Nehir (2007) within the epistemic shifts that have reconfigured Turkish literary discourse in the post-1980 period. The article argues that the novel, emerging from the transition from class-based to identity-oriented paradigms of oppression, employs spatial, cultural and discursive frameworks to unveil the structural mechanisms that govern Romani subjectivity. The article reveals that the protagonist's internalised self-negation mirrors the broader socio-political structures that cast the Roma as an ontological anomaly within the national imaginary, and that by critiquing homogenisation, systemic exclusion and epistemic erasure, the novel situates Romani identity at the intersection of local and global histories of marginalisation. The article further demonstrates that through its inscription of the Romani experience within a transnational matrix of subjugation, the novel challenges the hegemonic logics of nation-state formation and reasserts the subaltern voice as a site of both resistance and narrative agency.
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    Zadie Smith's White Teeth: The Interpellation of the Colonial Subject in Multicultural Britain
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) Baglama, Sercan Hamza
    White Teeth (2000) fictionalises the realities that immigrants experience and reveals how they find themselves caught in a chaotic, fragmented and alienated world and seek to actualise themselves through similar escape mechanisms. Through a close reading of the novel, this article, suggesting that a literary text subjectively mediates actual, imagined or reimagined histories in a given period and manifests specific historical contexts through an aesthetic individualisation of the socio-historical totality, attempts to theorise the concept of double alienation from a Marxist perspective and to justify its arguments in response to recent intellectual and political histories and theoretical interventions. In order to provide a different interpretation of the process of alienation and to discuss the twofold escape mechanisms of the colonial subject, this article will, in this context, mainly focus on Samad M. Iqbal and his two sons, Millat and Magid, and analyse how they internalise the socio-cultural and political orientations of white supremacy, run through a state of loss, atomisation, meaninglessness and powerlessness and struggle to escape from and nullify the negatives impacts of the process of double alienation in the colonial centre.