Browsing by Subject "Contemporary novel"

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Narrating beyond human: econarratology in contemporary Turkish literature
(2023-06) Gölge, İsmet Tarık
This study presents eco-critical readings of ecologically conscious contemporary Turkish novels, based on current narratological approaches. Each chapter investigates the textual traces of the relationships between humans and non-human entities, examining how the texts represent the non-human world through narrative structures. It questions how these narrative representations establish emotional and cognitive connections with readers. The first chapter, which demonstrates the theoretical approach of the thesis, briefly explains the shared developments of eco criticism and narratology, and it provides an overview of ecocritical studies conducted on Turkish literature. The second chapter focuses on the construction of the storyworld and the role of the experimental narrator in Faruk Duman's Sus Barbatus! trilogy. It discusses the role of local experience in environmental texts by establishing a connection between the traditional storytelling practices specific to Turkish local culture and the narrator in the novel. The third chapter analyzes the active roles of the second-person narration and non-human entities in the narrative structure of Sema Kaygusuz's novel Yüzünde Bir Yer (Every Fire You Tend). It examines the use of non-human entities in representing historical traumas. The fourth chapter examines the narrative similarities between Latife Tekin's Zamansız (Timeless) and Deniz Gezgin's YerKuşAğı (EarthBird) together. It establishes a literary kinship between Tekin and Gezgin and discusses how the perceptual processes of the non-human narrators are conveyed in both novels.
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Visions of nightmare: an analysis of dystopian fiction in contemporary English and Turkish novels
(2022-07) Ulaş, Irmak
This study focuses on contemporary dystopian novels written in English and Turkish literature. As it is a popular tradition among today’s readership, the first chapter discusses dystopia as a genre. The second and third chapters provide close readings on Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007), Cem Akaş’s Y (2018), Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann: An Adventure (1999), and Oya Baydar’s Köpekli Çocuklar Gecesi (2019). While it aims to inform the reader about the development of the dystopian genre, this thesis seeks answers to the questions of how we can read these authors from different countries in relation to each other and how they complement each other as writers that use the same genre. While seeking an answer to these questions, the concept of “kinship” proposed by Wai-Chee Dimock is thought to be useful. This thesis proposes that there is kinship through genre between Winterson and Akaş, while Lessing and Baydar form this kinship from a more political and activist position due to the parallels in their personal experiences. In regard to this concept, while discussing Winterson and Akaş through gender and sexuality, this thesis reads Lessing and Baydar together through their eco-dystopia. Through their similarities and distinctions, all four authors contribute to the tradition of the dystopia separately; however, it is also essential to establish a connection and relationship between their works as the authors wrote their works under the traditions of their Anglophone and Turkish literatures.