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Öğe 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(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Bağlama, Sercan HamzaThis article offers a comparative critique of Latife Tekin’s Gece Dersleri (1986) and Muzaffer Oruçoğlu’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.Öğe Representing the Romani 'other' in contemporary Turkish fiction: Negotiating Romani identity in Ayşegül Devecioğlu's Ağlayan Dağ Susan Nehir(Sage Publications Ltd, 2025) Güngör, Bilgin; Bağlama, Sercan HamzaThis article interrogates the representation of the Romani ‘other’ in Ayşegül Devecioğlu’s Ağlayan Dağ 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.Öğe War, Woman, and Environment: An Ecofeminist Reading of A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes(Selcuk University, 2025) Altın, MerveThis study aims to offer an ecofeminist reading of Natalie Haynes' novel A Thousand Ships (2019) to analyse how the text reflects and critiques the intersections of militarism, gendered violence, and environmental destruction. Ecofeminism, as a critical and interdisciplinary approach, reveals the relationships between the oppression of women and the degradation of nature, both of which are argued to stem from patriarchal and capitalist structures. While the novel does not explicitly aim to explore such themes as war, heroism, and gender within ecological frameworks, it inevitably highlights the interconnected nature of these themes. Through women's narratives and the narrative of Gaia, the Earth Goddess, the novel reflects how patriarchal and capitalist systems exploit both women and the environment. The study also draws parallels between the Trojan women's experiences and contemporary conflicts, such as those in Gaza and Ukraine, where women, children, and nature are disproportionately affected by war, as reflected in official reports prepared on these issues for the respective regions. By situating A Thousand Ships within an ecofeminist context, therefore, this study demonstrates how literature can reflect and critique the ongoing and universal nature of women's suffering and environmental degradation and highlights their interconnectedness due to the pervasive influence of patriarchal and capitalist practices. Such an approach not only expands the existing scholarship but also emphasises the importance of understanding and addressing these issues in both historical and contemporary contexts.Öğe The WoMen of Troy: The Reflection of L’autre Bisexualité in Pat Barker’s Historical Novel, The Women of Troy(Taylor and Francis, 2025) Altın, MerveDrawing on Hélène Cixous’ concept of l’autre bisexualité (other bisexuality), this study proposes that Pat Barker’s historical novel, The Women of Troy, displays a bisexual and decentred point of view by allowing the narrative to shift between the female and male characters to foreground the idea that men, as well as women, become victims of the phallus-centred, patriarchal language and worldview. When analysed from the perspective of l’autre bisexualité, it is revealed that Barker’s text displays a more inclusive approach in comparison to most historical novels in which revisionist strategies are used to give voice and agency to female figures long silenced by the historical record. This is because Barker lays bare how phallocentric language and culture shape the experiences of women and men alike by granting readers access to the minds of the male characters as well as those of women. It is concluded that the novels and narratives displaying such bisexual and decentred approaches will eventually increase male authors’ and male readers’ interest in breaking the prejudices against this form and technique.Öğe Affect, Spatial Practices, and the City in Agatha Christie's "They Came to Baghdad"(Mehmet Ali YOLCU, 2020) Türe Abacı, ÖzlemThey Came to Baghdad (1951), one of Agatha Christie’s mid-career books, could be categorized as a political thriller that unravels the ideological conflicts during the early Cold War period and the fight over Iraqi oil reserves. The scenes of the novel, like an adventure movie alters from a spy hunt to an archaeological theme, then to a romance, and finally a murder story and a thriller, in which fear comes up unexpectedly. Particularly, the setting provides the grounds for the female protagonist of the novel, Victoria Jones, to cross cultural and social boundaries and explore the space as a naïve pseudo-spy working for the international forces in Baghdad. By the lens of Nigel Thrift’s concept of “affective cities” and “spatialities of feeling,” this paper aims to explore how the setting of the novel—Baghdad—creates an intensive field of conflicting cultural and social forces that inscribe the female body, which runs in parallel with the narrative tactics Christie uses in revealing the affective emplacements of fear, suspicion, increasing levels of anxiety and insecurity in the cityscape. This paper, in other words, offers a spatial analysis of the novel in order to explore how the cityscape is mobilized and altered by the shifting perceptions of it by Victoria Jones while she defies the patriarchal demarcations of space. Through her adventures, it becomes possible to comprehend how power is distributed and circulated within this Middle Eastern society.Öğe Contrasting Shadows: The Jungian Archetypes in Oscar Wilde's Salome and Dorian Gray(Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, 2024) Karababa Ababay, Arzu CanaThis study explores the ascendancy and dominance of the unconscious over consciousness by focusing on two literary works by Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and Salome (1891) which will be analyzed simultaneously through a Jungian lens. This comparative analysis draws an inference between the darker aspects of human nature through binary oppositions of gender and identifies the archetypal constituents of the human psyche. Dorian Gray's feminized persona, his anima, is juxtaposed against Salome's masculine persona animus. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the typically concealed component of the psyche, which is the shadow, is nurtured by Dorian’s narcissism and manifests itself. This ultimately leads to the demise of the character, as the artificial separation of the self from the unconscious is ultimately unsustainable. Conversely, in Salome, the excessively indulged shadow self takes over and dominates the psyche. The shadow archetype highlights diverse atypical qualities based on different genders and exerts supremacy over the psyche due to its self-centered nature. The complexity and fluidity of gender roles connected to the anima and animus, which are the contrasexual attributes in their psychic manifestations illustrated in these characters, underscore that these traits and behaviors are not inherently confined to a specific gender but are part of the broader human experienceÖğe Refugee narratives in contemporary Turkish literature: a human-centered exploration(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Güngör, Bilgin; Bağlama, Sercan HamzaThe experiences of refugees have recently become a key theme in modern Turkish literature, as the refugee “crisis” has turned into a central issue for Turkey since the 2010s. This article explores contemporary Turkish literature’s engagement with the refugee experience and demonstrates how refugee narratives in Turkish literature transcend ideological divides to emphasize the human dimension of displacement. Through an analysis of three literary texts, Hakan Günday’s Daha (2013), Zülfü Livaneli’s Balıkçı ve Oğlu (2021), and Cemal Şakar’s “Kanadında Bir Kuşun” (2018), the article fleshes out the alignment of Turkish authors, both secular and conservative, in their thematic portrayal of refugees. By categorizing the selected texts as examples of contemporary refugee literature, the article also investigates their contribution to a broader literary tradition that has historically dealt with themes of displacement and suffering, thereby enriching the discourse on human dignity and social justice in the context of forced migration.Öğe Revisiting the Spirals of Silence: The Case of Intra-Faith Discrimination at Work in Two Muslim Majority Countries(Wiley, 2025) Uygur, Selçuk; Syed, Jawad; Aydın, Erhan; Özbilgin, Mustafa; Bağlama, Sercan HamzaDrawing on the spiral of silence theory, this manuscript critically explores a notably under-researched domain: the workplace experiences of individuals belonging to faith-based minority groups who encounter religious discrimination in predominantly Muslim countries, specifically T & uuml;rkiye and Pakistan. First, we outline the spirals of silence theory and examine intra-faith discrimination as an illustrative case. We locate the identity and agency of individuals from religious minorities at work, reflecting on an escalation of silence in the context of adversity, as suggested by the spirals of silence theory. Building on 38 interviews with individuals from faith-based minority groups in workplaces within Turkey and Pakistan, our analysis reveals intra-faith religious discrimination in two distinct contexts: one, a country grappling with significant pressure on its secular system, and the other, a nation where the implementation of Islamic egalitarian principles, as enshrined in its constitution, is inconsistent. The study reveals that religiously inspired discrimination is a prevalent and pernicious experience among individuals from faith-based minority groups in both countries, which consequently entrenches the spirals of silence.Öğe Formation of an academic diaspora: A study of scholars from Turkey in the higher education sector in Britain(Wiley, 2025) Özbilgin, Mustafa F.; Yıldız, Harun; Erbil, Cihat; Bağlama, Sercan HamzaThe internationalisation of higher education has revealed the importance of understanding the formation and dynamics of academic diasporas. Most studies focus on cohesive academic diasporas, overlooking fragmentation in diasporas as a central concern. In this paper, we define and theorise fragmented academic diaspora. The emergence of a highly fragmented diaspora of scholars from Turkey in the British higher education sector presents an ideal opportunity to examine the notion of a fragmented academic diaspora. Based on an online study of 20 scholars from Turkey in British academia, this paper investigates the formation of an academic diaspora fragmented across social fault lines. We examine the factors driving the formation of a fragmented academic diaspora, the boundaries defining this community and the challenges it faces. Additionally, we discuss these scholars' professional and personal experiences and investigate their integration into the academic landscape of Britain. Based on the expectations and aspirations of the participants, we propose strategies to leverage fragmentation within this academic diaspora as a pathway to fostering synergies amidst fragmentation and divisiveness.Öğe Pseudo-retranslation(Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) Yıldız, MehmetThis book presents pseudo-retranslations as a new phenomenon of translational intertextuality, revealing how pseudo-retranslations establish large networks of intertextuality across academic works, how academic authors have recourse to this procedure as they create their academic texts, and how pseudo-retranslations contribute to the dissemination of translation-distorted scholarly knowledge and lead to epistemically polluted academic ecosystems. Pseudo-retranslation can be defined as an academic author’s partial or complete exploitation of another academic author’s translation and presenting it as a retranslation of the source text. This phenomenon, first documented in Yildiz (2021), arises from academic authors’ failure to refer to or translate primary sources – particularly in English. Since there occurs no actual retranslation process, this procedure is called pseudo-retranslation. Using a range of academic texts from the Turkish context as case studies, the author presents the integral constituents of this phenomenon, and the behavioural patterns of its renderers. This book will be of particular interest to academics and postgraduates in the field of translation studies and (corpus) linguistics. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.Öğe Reecriture feminine as a conceptual convergence: A paratext-driven analysis of Fitzgerald, Lattimore, Fagles, and Wilson's translations of The Odyssey(Logos Verlag Berling Gmbh, 2023) Yıldız, Mehmet; Altın, MerveTranslation, as Andre Lefevere argues, is a form of rewriting, governed by various idiosyncratic and sociocultural factors and characterized by a certain level of ideological manipulation of the source text to conform to the norms and conventions of the target culture or fulfil ideological purposes. Resonating with this view, ecriture feminine (feminine writing or women's writing), as conceptualized by Helene Cixous, can be employed to make women more visible in literature and society by emancipating them from the dominant phallogocentric conceptualization through the invention of a new insurgent writing. By converging these two concepts, this paper (re)contextualizes reecriture feminine as a translational concept. It builds on the analyses of the English translations of Homer's Odyssey by Robert Fitzgerald (1961), Richmond Lattimore (1965), Robert Fagles (1996), and Emily Wilson (2017), the first woman to translate this classic into English, and of several paratexts on her translation and the previous ones.Öğe Mindfulness of the Drift: Nomadic Formations in Peter Reading's Evagatory(Natl Taiwan Normal Univ, 2019) Türe Abacı, ÖzlemThe formal qualities and innovative aspects of Peter Reading's poetry have been largely ignored or evaluated from a limited perspective due to the pessimistic subject matter, the gloomy images of Junk Britain and the deteriorating earth. This paper attempts to revitalize his legacy within the late twentieth century by bridging a dialogue between his work and Pierre Joris's vision of nomad poetics. Joris's engagement with nomadicity in A Nomad Poetics might provide a certain critical consciousness in associating Peter Reading's trope of evagation in Evagatory with the state of linguistic homelessness, the wandering of a mind through numerous textual, cultural, spatial borders, and lastly the poem as an unfinalized construct. This paper suggests that nomadic trajectory in Evagatory is foregrounded by constantly shifting registers, crossing of poetic boundaries and transcorporeal relations. Then, it aims to analyze the non-discursive visual patterns and collage practices in Evagatory to explore the text's 'rhizomatic' relations. The trope of evagation in Reading's mid-career work foregrounds how Reading actually works at the edge of the margins of literary traditions, of linguistic comprehensibility, of the visual and the verbal, and the poetic and unpoetic materials.Öğe The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton(Istanbul Univ, Fac Letters, 2024) Bağlama, Sercan Hamza[Anstract Not Available]Öğe Imperialism and literature: An imperialism-oriented reading of modern Turkish literature(Sage Publications Ltd, 2023) Bağlama, Sercan Hamza; Güngör, BilginPostcolonial theory perceives the world as divided between the coloniser and the colonised, thus indirectly reproducing the centrality of the West. For this reason, in literary studies, postcolonial theory fails to cover the literatures of those nations which were not colonised in a typical sense but rather occupied by Western imperialism, as was the case with Ottoman Turkey. This necessitates a convergent theoretical framework that might help evaluate the fictionalisation of the intersecting dynamics of oppression, violence, exploitation, and resistance in relation to the hegemonic narratives of imperialism and shape a new perspective regarding the politico-cultural dimension of imperial discourse. This article, in this respect, will critically develop the theoretical foundations of imperialism-oriented literary theory and construct it as an interdisciplinary field that has a potential to contribute to contemporary postcolonial theory and to encompass the intersectional dimensions of imperialism and imperial discourse for the articulation of the fictionalisation of imperialism-related issues in the under-considered corpus of modern Turkish literature.Öğe Referential noun phrases distribute differently in Turkish speakers with schizophrenia(Elsevier, 2023) Cokal, D.; Palominos-Flores, C.; Yalınçetin, B.; Türe Abacı, Özlem; Bora, E.; Hinzen, W.In all human languages, noun phrases (NPs) (e.g., ‘a field’, ‘the woman with a book’) are used to identify entities in discourse. Previous evidence has shown that the spontaneous speech of patients with schizophrenia (Sz) shows differences in the distribution of grammatically different types of NPs, which are in part specific to patients with formal thought disorder (FTD). Here we sought to provide the first evidence of related grammatical effects in a non-Indo-European language. Results from a picture description task in a sample of 16 Turkish speakers with FTD (+FTD), 15 without FTD (-FTD), and 27 controls revealed that relative to controls, people with Sz over-produced NPs that are ‘bare’ (in the sense of lacking any grammatical items such as the or a in English). The +FTD group generally showed stronger effects than -FTD, and used more pronouns and less NPs co-referring with previously mentioned NPs. In addition, the dynamic distribution of NP types over narrative time showed an effect of increased mean distance between definite NPs in -FTD relative to controls. In +FTD but no other group there was an unexpected random distribution of indefinite DPs. Incidence rates of referential anomalies increased from controls to the -FTD and +FTD groups. These findings further confirm that Sz is manifest through specific linguistic effects in the referential structure of meaning as mediated by grammar. They provide a linguistic baseline for neurocognitive models of FTD and help to define appropriate targets for the automatic extraction of linguistic features to classify psychotic speech.Öğe Duality of language as a tool for integration versus mobility at work: utility of a polyphonic perspective(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2023) Erbil, Cihat; Özbilgin, Mustafa F.; Bağlama, Sercan Hamza[Anstract Not Available]Öğe “and now we’re here: the Plasticene”: Ecological Awareness in Margaret Atwood’s Recent Poetry Collection, Dearly(Istanbul Univ, Fac Letters, 2024) Altın, MerveDearly , first published in 2020, is the latest poetry collection of the acclaimed writer, Margaret Atwood. In Dearly , Atwood revisits some of her favourite themes and subjects such as love, loss, time, ageing, sexuality, gender, nature, and environment. The book is divided into five sections, and the poems grouped in the same section revolve around a common theme. In section IV, the poems grouped under the title of Plasticene Suite discuss the increasing amount of plastic waste as the distinctive anthropogenic marker of our age. Accordingly, each poem focuses on a different aspect and consequence of this environmental problem. The primary objective of this study is to analyse Plasticene Suite poems, namely Rock -Like Object on Beach, Faint Hopes, Foliage,Midway Island Albatross,Editorial Notes,Sorcerer's Apprentice,Whales, Little Robot, and The Bright Side from Dearly through the lens of ecopoetry to reveal Atwood's criticism of the anthropogenic factors contributing to the current ecological crisis, particularly the ever-increasing generation of plastic waste, and to comment on contemporary poetry's awareness of and power to address the pressing environmental issues. The study also contends that ecopoetic readings of Plasticene Suite poems can help raise awareness about the rise in plastic waste during and after the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. In that sense, the ecopoetic readings of Plasticene Suite poems can urge us to reconsider our dependence on plastic and encourage us to adopt sustainable practices and habits by promoting consciousness about this environmental problem.Öğe “A PEREMPTORY ADIEU TO BIODIVERSICALS”: ECOLOGICAL DECLINE AND EXPERIMENTATION IN * PETER READING'S -273,15(2022) Türe Abacı, ÖzlemPronounced as “the unof?cial laureate of a decaying nation, Junk Britain” by the Irish poet and literary critic Tom Paulin, Peter Reading (1946-2011) has always been concerned with environmental deterioration, climate change, and decline of the species in many of his works from the 70s onwards. His poems of the new millennium advocate a more robust critique of the neo-liberal economic systems and human beings' involvement in the current ecological crisis. Reading's -273,15 [Absolute Zero] revisits his decades-long efforts to experiment with various poetic forms, registers and a grief-stricken tone presiding over most of his previous work regarding the complexities of anthropocenic experience. Reading's text combines his efforts not only to experiment with various poetic and non- poetic materials, registers, but also to look for ways to cope with an approaching catastrophe. The verbal and visual collage pieces as the most frequently employed procedures in Reading's poetry draw his poetry closer to the 'entropological register' Skinner puts forward and bring together the sources to show how Reading's environmental agenda is conscious of its shortcomings. Drawing on Lynn Keller's recent work on ecopoetics and the concept of the “self-conscious Anthropocene,” this paper aims to explore how Reading's ecological agenda and experimental practices in -273,15 might forge an improved understanding of the connections between contemporary poetry and environmental justice.Öğe TARİHSEL KURGUDA YENİDEN YAZIM STRATEJİSİNE KURAMSAL BİR YAKLAŞIM(Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, 2023) Altın, Merve; Baylan, ErgünUzun bir süre cinsiyetçi terimlerle tanımlanıp eril yazarlık ve okuyucu kitlesi ile ilişkilendirilen tarihsel kurgudaki kadın bakış açısı, giderek daha popüler hale geliyor olmasına rağmen, edebiyat eleştirisi açısından ihmal edilmiştir. Kadın yazarlar tarafından yazılan ve yeniden yazım pratiği ile şekillenmiş tarihsel kurgu romanlarının sayısının ve bu romanlara olan ilginin son yıllarda giderek arttığı yadsınamaz bir gerçektir. Bu çalışma, kadın yazarların yeniden yazım pratiği ile şekillenmiş çağdaş tarihsel kurgu eserleri temelinde, ‘yeniden yazım’ kavramının postmodernist ve feminist bir eylem olarak kuramsal temellerini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Tarihsel kurgunun ataerkil kalıplarla şekillenen tanımı ve aynı zamanda yakın zamana dek resmî ideolojilerin tekilci yönlendirmelerine maruz kalan kısıtlayıcı tarihi incelendikten sonra, postmodernizmin ve ikinci dalga feminizmin ‘yeniden yazım’ pratiğine ve bu pratik ile şekillendirilen tarihsel kurgunun yükselişine nasıl ve ne şekilde katkıda bulunduğu tartışılacaktır. Çalışmanın son bölümde ise, çağdaş kadın yazarların ‘yeniden yazım’ bağlamındaki görüşlerinin bu çalışmanın temel savlarını nasıl uyumlu bir şekilde yansıttığı da çeşitli örneklerle gösterilecektir.Öğe The impact of the hidden curriculum on international students in the context of a country with a toxic triangle of diversity(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022) Baykut, Sibel; Erbil, Cihat; Özbilgin, Mustafa; Kamasak, Rifat; Bağlama, Sercan HamzaThe hidden curriculum, which refers to the ideologies that remain implicit in educational content, is often studied in the context of developed countries with a colonial past where there are efforts to redress the historical injustice of the colonial past. In this paper, we examine the impact of the hidden curriculum on international students in a country with a toxic triangle of diversity. The toxic triangle of diversity describes a context where there is extensive deregulation, voluntarism without responsibilisation of organisations, and absence of supportive organisational discourses for diversity. Most studies of the hidden curriculum have taken place in countries where there are national laws for equality, institutional responsibility to bias-proof the curriculum, and supportive discourses for diversity. Drawing on a field study with nineteen international students (nine in the field of business studies and ten in other subject fields), we demonstrate how the hidden curriculum remains unattended and how it is legitimised through macro-, meso- and micro-level interactions that students have. We show that the hidden curriculum serves to silence different forms of exclusion, loneliness and discrimination that international students experience in the context of a toxic triangle of diversity. We suggest ways forward for undoing the damage done through the hidden curriculum in toxic contexts.
