Person: TURAN, AYŞEGÜL
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Dr. Öğr. Üyesi
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Publication Metadata only Publication Metadata only Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational: Literature and the New Europe(Brill Rodopi, 2015) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470Publication Open Access Creating the Nation on the Page: The Imagined Nationhood in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura(Namık Kemal Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Dekanlığı, 2021) TURAN, AYŞEGÜLRaja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938) focuses on the story of how Gandhian ideology reachesthe village of Kanthapura and changes the villagers’ lives drastically. Rao’s portrayalof national identity, by putting the village in the center, relies heavily on the use ofcenturies-old Indian culture and traditions in order to create a sense of shared historyand collective sense of belonging against British colonialism. In the novel, thevillagers re-discover their shared cultural and religious past in their attempt to find thestrength to fight against colonial domination and envision a new society. Thus, thenarrative’s imagining of the future society follows a past-oriented trajectory, namelycombining the past, present and future in the microcosmos of the village. I contendthat the temporal origin of the projected nationhood determines the limitations andpossibilities for the formation of the idea of nation and the future society.Publication Metadata only Whose Story Are We Reading? Problematics of Storytelling and Identity Constructionin O. Pamuk’s The White Castle(2012) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470Publication Metadata only Publication Metadata only From the Magistrate to the Barbarian: Transformation of the Magistrate in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians(Power and Victimization - The Rhetoric of Sociopolitical Power and Representations of Victimhood in Contemporary Literature, 2006) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470; Oya Berk; Sırma Soran GumpertPublication Metadata only The Notion of Authority in Lady Mary Montague’s Turkish Embassy Letters(2009) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470Publication Metadata only Bone and Flesh, Death and Life: Representing the Human Body in Anil's Ghost(2019-04) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost portrays the events evolving around Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist who, after living in England and the US for fifteen years, returns to her homeland Sri Lanka as part of an international human rights group to help with the investigation of mass murders. Anil and Sarath, a local archaeologist, are to identify the victims of unknown extrajudicial executions, which proves difficult and dangerous in the volatile and violent atmosphere of Sri Lanka as represented by the discovery of a recently buried skeleton in an ancient burial site controlled by the army. In this paper, I will focus on the depictions of the body, specifically those of skeletons and bones, to examine the novel’s metonymic representation of the individual and collective memory. As the violence of civil war becomes etched onto human bodies, bones start to serve as a repository of cultural memory after death. In the novel, “Sailor,” the recently buried skeleton, stands for all those bodies that have disappeared under not-so-mysterious circumstances. In other words, the attempt to give the Sailor a name and a face becomes emblematic of the desire to acknowledge the loss and suffering as well as honoring the dead. I contend that in the novel, the conscious effort to strip the bodies of their identity and to anonymize them does not lead to their ultimate erasure from history; on the contrary they, through the lifeless bones, draw attention to this attempt and hence become an essential part of cultural memory.Publication Metadata only Narrativity in J. Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea(2006) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470Publication Metadata only Defining and Defying Irishness in J.G. Farrell’s Troubles(2017) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470
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