This paper explores representations of the aging, predominantly male European body in the Mediterranean in European film and literature. The earliest narrative I consider is that of Michel Houellebecq’s 2005 novel The ...

Edebiyat alanında verilen eserler, çoğu zaman yazıldıkları dönemin iktidarının söylemlerini içlerinde barındırırlar. Dolayısıyla Viktorya Devri Çocuk Edebiyatı’nda dönemin iktidarının, kolonyalist politikalarını meşrulaştırmak ...

Readers approaching a book entitled Modernism, Empire, World Literature will have their own understanding of what ‘modernism’ and ‘world’ mean in relation to ‘literature’. A quick look at the book’s contents page reveals ...

This study examines the relation between travel writing and postcolonialism. In order to dothis it first looks at the history of travel literature, by doing a close reading of selectedpassages from travel literature, and ...

Küreselleşmenin yansımalarını en belirgin şekilde inceleyebileceğimiz alanlardan biri olan ‘sosyal medya aktivizmi’, diğer adıyla ‘dijital aktivizm’ tüm dünyada olduğu gibi Türkiye’de de ciddi etkiler yaratarak son yıllarda ...

From the day modernity was instilled with the invention of motion picture, cinema has become a crucial instrument in the construction of identity and the development of the common sense of belonging. The issue of the Soviet ...

Since 1994, contemporary French novelist Michel Houellebecq has been offering projections for the future where the European culture and way of life come to an end. The aim of this article is to analyze his 2015 novel ...

This thesis analyzes two bildungsromans – Reşat Nuri Güntekin's Autobiography of a Turkish Girl and Alberto Moravia's Woman of Rome (both written by male authors, but narrated by female protagonists from a first-person ...

In Masks or Souls, written in Paris in 1937, Turkish author Halide Edib Adıvar makes use of elements of modernist theatre to express her political views. Having been brought up in the metropolis of Istanbul, she spent time ...

Michel Houellebecq’s novel Soumission, about an Islamic party coming to power in France, attracted a lot of critical attention after the horrendous attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices. This paper aims to look at the novel ...