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• Çakır, İlknur Büşra
• Doğan, Çağlayan
• Güneş, Mustafa
• Hakkıoğlu, Mümin
• Karahan, Oğuz Han
• Kör, Ayşenur
• Uruk, Ahmet
• Yalçın, Elif Güvendi

• MakaleYalnız künye2026/r/gumushane/15923
  Frustrated Entitlements and Micro-Aggressors in Julian Barnes's Novels, The Sense of an Ending and The Only Story

  Günes, Mustafa

  This article reads the male first-person narrators of Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending and The Only Story as gender microaggressors. Focusing on microaggression developed in social and feminist psychology, and on contemporary feminist philosophy's redescription of misogyny, the article argues that the rueful, self-critical retrospection these novels are usually praised for also serves as a vehicle for the quiet reproduction of patriarchal ideology. At the root of these microaggressions lies what the article terms 'frustrated entitlement', the felt grievance of someone who believes a tribute has gone unpaid. Feminist narratology supplies the analytic tools required to make this argument precise. Close reading distinguishes microaggressions performed by the younger protagonist within the storyworld from those enacted by the older narrator in the telling, and shows that both are absorbed into a rhetorical structure of 'bonding unreliability': the narrators name the gendered patterns of their own thought, and that very naming becomes the licence by which the patterns are kept in place. Set against the louder retrosexism of the postwar British male confessional novel in its more satirical and self-aggrandising mode, Barnes's decorous, retrospectively contrite narrators emerge as the most refined instance of an underexamined formal investment in contemporary British letters: the patient maintenance of patriarchal continuity through the voice of the man who is sorry.

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2026/r/gumushane/13883
  [Policing the Postcolonial Family: Rethinking Hanif Kureishi’s “My Son the Fanatic” through F. Fanon and D. Bigo]

  Yalçın, Elif Güvendi

  [Abstract] This article offers a critical re-evaluation of Hanif Kureishi’s short story “My Son the Fanatic” at the intersection of Frantz Fanon’s postcolonial psychoanalysis and Didier Bigo’s security studies. Moving beyond conventional readings that center generational conflict, religious radicalism, or immigrant assimilation, the study foregrounds surveillance as a constitutive force shaping postcolonial subjectivity within diasporic family dynamics. It is argued that Kureishi’s narrative dramatizes the internalization of state logics of suspicion and control, whereby the immigrant father, Parvez, becomes both the subject and the agent of a dispersed surveillance apparatus. Drawing on Bigo’s concept of the ban-opticon and its emphasis on anticipatory governance and affective regulation, the article examines how fear of deviance displaces paternal care with a mode of domestic policing. Simultaneously, Fanon’s notion of epidermalization elucidates how the colonized subject internalizes visibility as a site of control, resulting in a fractured self constantly navigating racialized gazes and cultural expectations. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2026/r/gumushane/13875
  The Cybernetics of Gomi: Transhumanism, Materiality, and the Expulsion of the Subject in William Gibson’s The Winter Market (1986)

  Uruk, Ahmet

  Referred to by Julian Huxley in his 1957 work New Bottles for New Wine, transhumanism champions the use of science and technology to transcend human biological limits and attain a “posthuman” state. While science fiction frequently familiarizes audiences with these speculative dimensions, William Gibson’s short story The Winter Market (1986) exposes the dehumanizing impacts of technological immortality and mind uploading in a cyberpunk world. Rather than presenting a seamless techno-utopian future, Gibson’s narrative centers on the concept of gomi—Japanese for trash or junk—to illustrate the literal and psychological expulsion of the human subject. Therefore, this paper argues that The Winter Market uses the material reality of gomi as its core structural and thematic focus, exposing how advanced capitalism and cybernetic technology reduce the organic body, human experience, and artistic expression to marketable, discarded commodities. Through a close reading of Gibson’s distinct language and narrative form, this study, ultimately, interrogates the trade-offs of technological transcendence, demonstrating how the pursuit of disembodied immortality culminates in alienation and the fragmentation of authentic identity.

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2025/r/gumushane/19735
  Mapping the Individual: A Psychogeographical Reading of Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net

  Uruk, Ahmet

  Introduced firstly by Guy Debord, the founder of the Letterist International, in 1955, psychogeography intersects with the study of the psychological and emotional effects of an urban city on individuals. Proposing that both space and psychology complete one another, psychogeography, as a term juxtaposing psychology and geography, seeks to unearth the estrangement and the dehumanizing impacts of global urbanism consolidated by advanced capitalism and industrialization. In this sense, psychogeography focuses mostly on the act of walking so as to comprehend the ongoing conflict between the mind and city and suggests walking as a conscious activity can function as a protest and subversion against the commodification and repressive constraints of the city. Likewise, Iris Murdoch's debut novel titled Under the Net captures the story of Jake Donaghue and his unstable psychology alienated and decentred by the formation of an urban city, that is, London. Thus, this study aims to analyze Iris Murdoch's Under the Net in order to emphasize the fragmentation and displacement of individuals in accordance with the global urbanism by employing a psychogeographical lens.

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2025/r/gumushane/19611
  Exclusion, bureaucracy and racialized migration in abdulrazak gurnah’s by the sea

  Yalcin, Elif Guvendi

  Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea (2002) interrogates the paradoxes of hospitality within the asylum process, revealing how conditional welcome operates as a mechanism of control rather than care. Through a critical engagement with Jacques Derrida's hostipitality and Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, this article examines the protagonist's arrival in England and his subsequent placement in a deteriorating Bed and Breakfast as an extension of state governance over displaced subjects. While asylum ostensibly signifies protection, the conditions imposed upon refugees transform hospitality into an instrument of containment, where inclusion is contingent upon submission to bureaucratic and social constraints. Drawing on Derrida's theorization of hospitality as inherently violent, the study demonstrates how the host's power to grant refuge simultaneously reinforces the foreigner's subjugation. Mbembe’s necropolitics further illuminates the ways in which asylum seekers exist within a state of managed decay, where their survival is permitted yet systematically devalued. Gurnah's portrayal of the asylum process thus critiques the host nation’s myth of benevolence, exposing the coercive structures that sustain postcolonial modes of regulation and exclusion. By situating By the Sea within this theoretical framework, the article argues that the novel problematizes the ethical contradictions of asylum policies, revealing how displaced individuals are reduced to spectral presences within the host nation’s borders.

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2025/r/gumushane/19586
  Living like a tree: narratives of slow violence in arundhati roy's the ministry of utmost happiness

  Yalcin, Elif Guvendi

  This article bridges postcolonial studies and ecocriticism to explore the entanglement of environmental degradation and systemic marginalization in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Mainly anchored in the theoretical framework of Nixon's concept of "slow violence," this study examines how colonial and neo-colonial ideologies perpetuate ecological exploitation and social inequality. Through characters such as Anjum and Gulabiya, Roy critiques the intersection of environmental injustices, displacement, and socio-political exclusion. Anjum's existence within a graveyard, which is a symbolic site of ecological decay, exemplifies the gradual violence inflicted upon marginalized communities, while the extinction of white-backed vultures symbolizes the ecological ramifications of industrial modernity. Additionally, the Narmada Bachao Andolan and the Bhopal disaster serve as critical case studies of environmental racism, highlighting the disproportionate burdens borne by the Global South in the name of development. By engaging with colonial legacies such as deforestation and industrial expansion, the article underscores how contemporary globalization replicates the exploitative dynamics of imperialism. Roy's narrative strategies amplify the silenced experiences of the dispossessed while critiquing the ethical failures of anthropocentrism and capitalist modernity. The article concludes by emphasizing the role of literature as an activist medium, capable of rendering visible the imperceptible impacts of ecological and social violence. In doing so, it advocates for postcolonial ecocriticism as an essential lens for addressing global environmental and cultural issues.

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2025/r/gumushane/19534
  Challenging Neo-Orientalism: Muslim Identity and the Israel-Palestine Conflict in Teju Cole's Open City

  Yalcin, Elif Guvendi

  This article explores Teju Cole's Open City (2011) as a profound critique of neo-Orientalist discourses in the post-9/11 era, focusing on Farouq, an Arab-Muslim intellectual in Brussels. Grounded in Edward Said's Orientalism and Hamid Dabashi's neo-Orientalism, the analysis reveals how Farouq resists Western pressures to assimilate or enact commodified versions of his identity, challenging the persistent demand for "oriental fantasy" narratives. The novel situates Farouq's personal struggles within geopolitical tensions, notably the Israel-Palestine conflict, which characters frame as a defining contemporary issue. This perspective counters neo-Orientalist assertions that attribute Middle Eastern instability to inherent cultural flaws, instead critiquing Western imperialism and media distortions. The study contrasts Farouq's revolutionary consciousness with Dr. Maillotte's liberal dismissal of his grievances, exposing subtle neo-Orientalist mechanisms that mask structural inequities under a veneer of openness. Through its dialogic structure and reflective narrator, Julius, Open City fosters authentic intercultural exchange, disrupting monolithic portrayals of Muslim identities. The article argues that Cole's narrative not only contests reductive stereotypes but also positions literature as a vital medium for advocating equitable identity representations in a globalized world. By centering Farouq's intellectual agency and experiences, the study contributes significantly to understanding identity politics and representation in postcolonial literature, underscoring the enduring relevance of Said's critique in contemporary global discourses.

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• MakaleYalnız künye2024/r/gumushane/19858
  From Stage to Cyberspace: Intermediality and Performativity in Jennifer Haley’s The Nether

  Güneş, Mustafa

  Jennifer Haley’s The Nether premiered in 2013 at the Kirk Douglas Theater. It is an interplay between stage and virtual reality (VR), also known as, cyberspace. This quality makes the play an example of “intermedial” theater, which links digital media elements to the performance on stage indissolubly. The play not only provides a rich exploration of intermediality that reshapes traditional notions of character and acting, but also the characters in the play are presented as having avatars in VR, which ultimately highlights the fluidity of roles based on identity. Applying Judith Butler’s theory of performative construction of identity and gender to analyze the characters, who are portrayed as having double identities and fulfilling fluid gender roles, is highly relevant in a play that uniquely blends dramatic performance with digital media to create a complex narrative landscape. By analyzing key scenes and particularly focusing on three major characters in the play, Sims, Doyle, and Morris, it is aimed in this study to see how performativity, as theorized by Butler, is redefined in virtual environments, as characters navigate identities mediated through digital avatars. The interaction between media both enhances the narrative but also prompts audiences to reflect on the significance of repetitive performance in gender and identity formation; therefore, this study also highlights the play’s innovative approach to media interaction and contributes to contemporary discussions on the relationship between theatre, digital technology, space, and gender studies.

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2024/r/gumushane/19857
  Navigating Global Migration: An Analysis of Exit West through Appadurai’s Five Scapes

  Yalcin, Elif Guvendi

  The rapid surge in global migration today is deeply intertwined with shifts in the political and economic structures of the late twentieth century, characterized by the dominance of globalization and transnational capital. These shifts, while rooted in the historical legacies of colonialism, have assumed new dimensions as globalization reconfigures the movement of people, capital, and ideas. In Exit West, Mohsin Hamid connects the personal experiences of migration with larger global forces, using magical doors to metaphorically illustrate the fluidity and unpredictability of global migration patterns. This paper employs Arjun Appadurai's five "scapes," which are ethnoscapes, technoscapes, financescapes, mediascapes, and ideoscapes, to examine how Exit West reflects and critiques the dynamics of globalization, migration, and identity formation. Hamid highlights how technological advancements facilitate movement while simultaneously revealing the inequalities that persist under the guise of globalization. Through the journeys of Saeed and Nadia, the novel reveals the fragmented nature of global flows and their impact on personal and collective identities.

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2024/r/gumushane/19807
  Intersections, Reflections, and Transformations in “Fashion as Material Culture”: A Conference Report

  Kirca, Mustafa; Düzgün, Şebnem; Güneş, Mustafa

  Introduced and hosted as a postgraduate conference in 2012 at Çankaya University, the International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture is an annual international conference, organised by a different university each year, to enable senior and emerging scholars to engage in innovative theoretical discussions and scholarly debates. In 2023, when we celebrated the centenary of the Republic of Türkiye, The 10th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture was co-hosted by Gümüşhane University (Türkiye) Ankara Science University (Türkiye), and University of Évora (Portugal). The 10th LLC was held as an online conference on 15-16 September 2023. The international conference was a peer-reviewed academic forum for the exchange and communication of scholarship in the fields of language, literary studies, translation and cultural studies, aiming to provide a venue for scholars and graduate students working at the boundaries of these disciplines.

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