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Gothic Feminism is an authentic term for revealing the relationship between gothic and feminism, ... more Gothic Feminism is an authentic term for revealing the relationship between gothic and feminism, and the Netflix Series Lucifer opens perfect dimensions to emphasize how women are merged with the supernatural elements in the series. The main character Lucifer is a significant figure in the context of creating the gothic feminist outlook in the series, and so it can be said that Lucifer is a great manifestation about reflecting feminist thoughts with strong figures such as Decker and Charlotte Richards. On the other hand, the evil side of the series affects audiences while creating fearful aspirations. In the series, women sometimes seem as if they are vulnerable to men’s hegemony, or sometimes their behaviors lead them to be heroic status. This presentation will explicitly present how the characters reflect gothic feminism and its main thematic approaches.
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Articles by Dr. Gamze Ar
International Journal of Language and Translation Studies, 2023
In America, there are numerous ethnic diversities, such as Indigenous people, Mexican Americans, ... more In America, there are numerous ethnic diversities, such as Indigenous people, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, etc. Native Americans are the oldest nation, which constructs the essential origin in the U.S., so it can be said that America was created with various patterns of ethnic minorities. Like other ethnic groups, Native Americans encounter many hardships and discriminations, such as cultural and physical assimilations in the white dominant American system. Ancestors of Native people are known for their long and robust history because their traditions are based upon strong and unifying family values. Because of respecting their past and family traditions, Indigenous people construct their communal way of life, and America is against this notion with its individualistic outlook towards life. Thus, throughout history, there have always been great clashes between the whites and Native people. Besides, many debates have existed about the relationship between Native Americans and Turks throughout history. From which perspectives does Louise Erdrich reflect the Native American motifs in Love Medicine? What is the essential relation between the Native Americans and the Turks? How does Erdrich approach the history of Native Americans? This study sheds light on these questions with the close similarities between the Turkish and American cultures.
Çeşm-i Cihan: Journal of History, Culture, and Art Studies (E-Journal), 2023
Allen Ginsberg, a prominent American poet and writer, is widely recognized for his significant co... more Allen Ginsberg, a prominent American poet and writer, is widely recognized for his significant contribution to American literature by creating his authentic style and as a critical figure in the Beat Generation. This literary movement emerged in the 1950s as a response to the time's oppressive and conservative societal norms, including the fear of nuclear war, the rise of consumerism, and the stifling conformity of the Cold War era. Ginsberg's literary voice captured the essence of this movement, expressing its countercultural values through his descriptions and language, which were often explicit and straightforward. This study examines "Howl" through the lens of Lefebvre's Spatial Theory, which provides a critical framework for analyzing the spatial dimensions of social life. By applying Lefebvre's theory, this analysis reveals the spatial dimensions of the poem, including the relationship between space and time and the relationship between poetry and language. The use of spatial theory in literary analysis offers a unique perspective on the social and cultural context of the time, providing insights into how spatial and ideological power relations are reflected in literature. This study will contribute to a sociological commentary on American literature as it explores the role of space and place in the production and reception of literary works. It also provides an analytical framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of social life in 1950s America.
Melius: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 2023
Gender is a complex issue, especially for women in Iraq during its tumultuous historical period, ... more Gender is a complex issue, especially for women in Iraq during its tumultuous historical period, and many women suffer from both gendered and racial hardships. Not only sexual harassment but also a patriarchal society oppress their physical and psychological state of mind. Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire is an excellent symbol for indicating how diverse women portray different identities and experiences. However, each of them fights for one thing: love. Patriarchal regulations, with their clothing rules or religious restrictions, create limited space for Iraqi women in the play, and the women search for liberation throughout the play. Some escape from their home countries, and some stay and fight for freedom. However, each character in the play struggles bravely against difficulties. This study will examine these women regarding identity, racial, and gender theories. From these approaches, the gender theory will uncover the essence of the play due to dealing with nine women’s search for desire. The space reflects these women with lyrical statements, so the theatrical play must be narrated in a poetic monologue. Using the theories of Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, and Julia Kristeva, the study creates authentic perspectives in Middle Eastern American Drama.
BELGÜ, 2023
African American literature establishes a great artistic field with diverse cultural and thematic... more African American literature establishes a great artistic field with diverse cultural and thematic experiences. Throughout history, African Americans have experienced many troubles, such as segregation and discrimination in various areas. However, their literature shows a significant resistance to all the troubles in history. Numerous writers and artists explore themes such as African American culture, racism, religion, slavery, and a sense of homelessness, one of whom is Zora Neale Hurston. Besides her race, she is also a woman, so she is both a woman and a colored person at the bottom of the social ladder. Thus, Their Eyes Were Watching God is not only a source of race but also gender. This paper sheds light on the importance of Zora Neale Hurston in African American literature, and the study will be supported by other famous Afro-American writers’ articles and statements. Why is she so important? From which perspectives did she contribute to African American literature? Why was her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God mostly criticized? This novel, being important in the field of Black Feminism, concerns the hardships of black women
racially and sexually. This study will answer these questions with examples from Zora Neale Hurston’s autobiographical novel Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (1984), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Alice Walker’s article “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston” (1975).
The Critical Outlook to Eleni Sikelianos’ Body Clock: Poems with the Theoretical Backgrounds from Theorists Julia Kristeva and Susanna Egan, 2021
This paper analyzes Body Clock: Poems 2 in the perspective of Julia Kristeva's Desire in Language... more This paper analyzes Body Clock: Poems 2 in the perspective of Julia Kristeva's Desire in Language A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. It explicitly sheds light on Eleni Sikelianos's poems in Body Clock with two different theorists such as Kristeva and Egan. Eleni Sikelianos' (1965-) both visual and verbal narrative style attribute an authentic outlook for readers, and they see the power of her performative style. The process of giving birth is narrated so creatively that when people read her poems, they will understand how life is a meaningful thing. The study will start with the life of Eleni Sikelianos, who is the author of Body Clock which reveals the idea of birth, womanhood, imaginative mind, and so on. Secondly, Body Clock is explained with its main concepts such as time, biology, motherhood including the growth of body and birth, and her drawings. The third part of the study will examine the poems of Body Clock from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. This analysis will concern four theoretical backgrounds: "the speaking/ split subject," "semiotic chora & symbolic device," "maternal body/ drive," and "poetic language/carnivalesque." In the fourth section of the paper, Body Clock is analyzed in terms of three concepts such as the mirror conception, body status and language in control of meaning in Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography written by Susanna Egan.
yedi, 2022
The meaning of home differs from one person to another. America hosts many hybrid cultures and on... more The meaning of home differs from one person to another. America hosts many hybrid cultures and one of them is the Arab American identity. These people suffer from many hardships not only because of their religious differences, but also their traditional alienation to American culture. This paper will analyze the Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi's play Ten Acrobats in An Amazing Leap of Faith (2018), presenting the fear and anxiety for the unknown culture in an Arab American family who struggle with identity problems and the American lifestyle. The concept of in-betweenness will be analyzed in each character and as Stuart Hall mentioned in his theory, this study will carry out "the eye of the needle of the other before it can construct itself" (1996, p. 89). As for identity framework, each character will be examined in terms of identity, gender and religious perspectives. The hardships of each character throws light on various commentaries in relating to the identity analyses and this study will explicitly show how the concept of identity will be shown with different Arab Americans. The cultural conflict is understood with Arab American identities that captivated the hegemonic Americanized thought system in America. While analyzing all characters in the play, this study will present how El Guindi reflects upon the lives of in-between Arab Americans with various issues such as religion, gender and race. While studying themes such as identity, religion, gender and race, the framework will be considered according to the theorists like Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Belgü, 2022
Mitoloji, farklı kültürleri bir araya getirdiği ve insanların iletişiminde ortak bir dil yarattığ... more Mitoloji, farklı kültürleri bir araya getirdiği ve insanların iletişiminde ortak bir dil yarattığı için evrensel bir gerçekliktir. Mitolojinin gücü o kadar güçlüdür ki 15. yüzyılda yaşamış ressam Pieter Brueghel ile 20. yüzyılda yaşamış şair William Carlos Williams ortak bir noktada buluşur. Mitoloji iki farklı yüzyılı bir araya getirerek kültürel akış sağlar. Williams Brueghel'ın resimlerini Kunsthistorishes Müzesi'nde gördüğünde, bunlarla ilgili şiir yazmaya karar verir ve bu ekfrasis şiirler mitolojik yansımaları gösterir. Bu sanatsal yapıtlar mitolojik öyküleri içinde barındırır ve çalışma mitsel illüstrasyonların yanında şiirlerin nasıl oluşturulduğunu ifade edecektir. Bu çalışma, şiirlerin mitsel ögeleri nasıl ifade ettiğini gösterecektir. Kelimeler ve resimler arasında oluşan köprü, Williams ve Brueghel'ın kültürel yansımalarında mitolojiyle bütünleşir. Bu noktada, mitoloji her yerdedir ve etkileri tarihte hala devam eden süreçleri vurgulamaktadır. Mit ya da mitoloji, insanların zihninde her zaman üstün bir kavramdır ve mitolojinin bu üstün gücü insanlara sonsuz illüstrasyonlar gösterir. Pieter Brueghel bu gücü kullanan artistlerden biridir. Onun resimlerinde pek çok mitolojik referanslar vardır ve Brueghel'ın dönemini anlamak açısından her biri öğretici niteliktedir. Bu mitolojik örnekler William Carlos Williams ile kelimeler aracılığıyla 20. yüzyılda tekrar hayat bulur ve mitoloji bağlamında iki farklı yüzyılın birbiriyle nasıl buluştuğunu samimi bir bağ ile gösterir. Mitoloji niçin evrensel bir gerçekliktir? Hangi yönlerden Williams ve Brueghel sanatlarında bunu kullanır? Sanatta mitolojik yansımaların özü nedir? Bu çalışma, belirtilen sorulara cevap vermeye çalışacak ve sizi bir gezinti gibi 15. yüzyıldan 20. yüzyıla götürecektir.
Bartın Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2022
Ethnic minorities in America are always in the search of identity because of being far away from ... more Ethnic minorities in America are always in the search of identity because of being far away from their cultural and traditional practices. In this process, they try to construct their identities within the connections to their past and present together. At that point, ethnic autobiography creates an insightful perspective in that it presents the existing links among the members of a community: a common past, and a political project for the future of that community. (Renán, 1990,19) There are many ethnic groups living in America, and one of them is the Chinese Americans. America is like a mosaic with various ethnic groups living there. This study will seek “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan in the light of ethnic autobiographical considerations. This autobiographical source indicates how the language creates boundaries and it pushes characters into silence. This silence is a kind of psychological loneliness and cultural alienation. Tan closely experiences the otherness with her ethnic difference and she uses the genre of ethnic autobiography while narrating her personal memories because the real issues always affect the readers more deeply. Besides the sociological concerns such as language, it also explores the life of Tan with her own personal expressions. Thus, it is a kind of sociological, cultural and biographical text, and it also deals with multi-dimensional critical outlooks. It is also a great example inside protest literature because it criticizes ethnic discrimination with the examples from the life of Chinese American. From which perspectives does “Mother Tongue” approach the ethnic issue? How do the Chinese-Americans suffer from hardships in American society? What does the identity of Chinese-Americans mean for themselves? This paper tries to light on these questions in the framework of different ethnicities in America.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 31, 2022
Throughout history the world faces many destructions and misdeeds of humankind with the anthropoc... more Throughout history the world faces many destructions and misdeeds of humankind with the anthropocentric perspective that tries to dominate nature. This approach poses a great threat to the world in that the extensive misuse of natural sources affects each part of life. The deforestation, nuclear threat and torturing of animals are the essential problems of modern world, and the cycle of the mother earth becomes disordered ecological disaster at the end. As regarding to these issues, there arose new theories of analyzing the environmental subjects as the central point, and it is called as Ecocriticism. Ecocriticism is a well-known movement which deals with ecocritical outlook to the literary texts in the opposition of anthropocentrism. This paper seeks to reveal how the story "Zoogoing" written by Lydia Millet brings ecocritical literacy towards the rights of animals, especially predators. It analyzes the story from the anthropocentric and ecocentric aspects. This story provides to understand the eco-conscious process within animals and human's reactions. Thus, it is an interpretive ecocritical analysis of animals inside zoo and their instinctual behaviors towards the humankind. At that point, human behaviors and its perception towards animals construct a crucial analysis in Ecocriticism.
CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research - Zenodo, Dec 31, 2021
The actual physical borderland that I'm dealing with in this book is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexi... more The actual physical borderland that I'm dealing with in this book is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact, the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals shrinks with intimacy. I am a border woman. I grew up between two cultures, the preface) Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) manifests the life of the author herself. She expresses her personal experiences and she also tells the history of Chicano Movement. It plays a critical role in the maintenance of presenting the ethnic and identity problems This feeling creates some themes, in the book, such as belongingness, otherness, the concept of home, becoming rather than being, ethnic mosaic, sexist discourses and consciousness. The fering from being an identity, and she is continuously on the path and she is in the manner of becoming rather than being. She is living the in-betweenness in the book Borderlands the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas in 1942, and her heritage was based on the mixture of grew up between two cultures. Borderlands) Because of this dilemma she was seen as alien and she also felt like a stranger in the question of existence. In which space did she belong to? Was she Mexican or American in terms of Borderlands? From which perspectives is this book considered as a diasporic study? How did she deal with identity, gender and ethni and Borderlands will be examined in terms of these aspects in a detailed way.
Oral Presentations by Dr. Gamze Ar
Gothic Feminism is an authentic term for revealing the relationship between gothic and feminism, ... more Gothic Feminism is an authentic term for revealing the relationship between gothic and feminism, and the Netflix Series Lucifer opens perfect dimensions to emphasize how women are merged with the supernatural elements in the series. The main character Lucifer is a significant figure in the context of creating the gothic feminist outlook in the series, and so it can be said that Lucifer is a great manifestation about reflecting feminist thoughts with strong figures such as Decker and Charlotte Richards. On the other hand, the evil side of the series affects audiences while creating fearful aspirations. In the series, women sometimes seem as if they are vulnerable to men’s hegemony, or sometimes their behaviors lead them to be heroic status. This presentation will explicitly present how the characters reflect gothic feminism and its main thematic approaches. How did the main character Lucifer affect the women? Why did he appear as a vulnerable Satan against a woman like Decker? From which perspectives did the presentation shed light on Lucifer as a gothic feminist genre? This presentation will try to answer these questions and while examining them, it will be a great source for gothic feminism in American popular culture. Lucifer is a highly well-known series in terms of its authentic subject matter and thematic approaches; thus, its relationship will be detailly examined within the gothic feminist theoretical aspect. In addition to Gothic Feminism, Lucifer is also considered as the “Satanic Feminism” and it will be explicitly seen in the paper. This study will focus on three women characters such as Maze who is considered as the evil figure in Lucifer, Charlotte Richards who is normally a mother in the world but is sometimes seen as the wife of God in the series, and Chole Decker who is an ambitious detective. Besides these women characters, there are also many other women characters, but the presentation will mostly explore these three women and their relations with Lucifer in the context of gothic feminism. Keywords: Gothic Feminism; The Netflix series Lucifer; Woman Studies; Gender; Gothic Literature; “Satanic Feminism.”
Covid-19 is a crucial problem in recent history and people are getting desperate against this vir... more Covid-19 is a crucial problem in recent history and people are getting desperate against this virus. However, some are trying to increase the motivation of people against this grievance with creative ideas. One of them is the artist Genevieve Blais who formed the art history in the mood of Covid-19. Her authentic style attributes diverse perspectives into the world of art as its effects are catchier than other techniques. The methods which Blais used in her art narrate Covid-19 while integrating past and present together in that people are in desire of travelling throughout history. At that point, this study aims to reflect how the cultural heritage combines the recent pandemic situation with art history, and it also constructs an outstanding interest in the art history and pandemic consciousness. This study will focus on these artistic works with the effects of Covid-19 and its results. Why did Genevieve Blais prefer to reflect this style? How did she get the idea of this artistic creation? From which perspectives is she involved in the process?
International Symposium on Business, Economics, and education ISBE 2021, 2021
Covid-19 is a crucial problem in recent history and people are getting desperate against this vir... more Covid-19 is a crucial problem in recent history and people are getting desperate against this virus. However, some are trying to increase the motivation of people against this grievance with creative ideas. One of them is the artist Genevieve Blais who formed the art history in the mood of Covid-19. Her authentic style attributes diverse perspectives into the world of art as its effects are catchier than other techniques. The methods which Blais used in her art narrate Covid-19 while integrating past and present together in that people are in desire of travelling throughout history. At that point, this study aims to reflect how the cultural heritage combines with the recent pandemic situation and this method constructs an outstanding interest in the art history and pandemic consciousness. This study will focus on these artistic works with the effects of Covid-19 and its results. Why did Genevieve Blais prefer to reflect this style? How did she get the idea of this artistic creation? From which perspectives is she involved in the process? We are still suffering from the bad results of Covid-19 in that many people are captivated into their homes. This event provides to understand the value of world and many people consider this pandemic situation as a warning against all destructive human deeds. This study will reveal the effects and consequences of Covid-19 with the authentic creations such as ancient paintings in the version of pandemic productions.
Master Thesis by Dr. Gamze Ar
This research examines the eleven poems of the Modernist American poet, William Carlos Williams w... more This research examines the eleven poems of the Modernist American poet, William Carlos Williams who is inspired by the masterpieces of the Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, of the fifteenth century. The inter-relation between painting and poetry is called ekphrasis, which can be simply explained as the linguistic projection of visual art. Heffernan (1939-) defines this term as “the verbal representations of visual representations.” In addition to ekphrasis, this thesis aims to analyze the eleven poems of Williams in terms of structural, symbolic and thematic approaches. The primary source of this study is the poetry book, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962) by Williams who has reflected upon the paintings of Brueghel. The first part of this study will focus on Williams’ poetic life in order to understand the ekphrastic nature of his selected poems. For instance, when did Williams’ interest for visual art start? Where did he acquire the idea that revealed the paintings of Bruegel in the embodiment of words? What did it mean to analyze Brueghel’s paintings? All these questions and more will be answered in the research. This thesis focuses not only on the poet, Williams and his poetic revelations, but also on Brueghel’s artistic perspectives and concerns. The research aims to construct versatile experiences and enrich new dimensions in readers.
Papers by Dr. Gamze Ar
Belgü, Dec 28, 2023
Afrikalı Amerikalı edebiyatı, farklı kültürel ve tematik deneyimlerle büyük bir sanatsal alan olu... more Afrikalı Amerikalı edebiyatı, farklı kültürel ve tematik deneyimlerle büyük bir sanatsal alan oluşturmaktadır. Tarih boyunca Afrikalı Amerikalılar, çeşitli alanlarda ırkçılık ve ayrımcılık gibi birçok sorunla karşı karşıya kalmıştır. Ancak edebiyatları, tarih boyunca yaşadıkları tüm sorunlara karşı önemli bir direniş göstermiştir. Pek çok farklı yazar ırkçılık, din, kölelik ve aidiyetlik gibi temaları eserlerinde kaleme almıştır. Bu yazarlardan biri de Zora Neale Hurston'dır. Hurston siyah bir kadındır ve hem ırk hem de cinsiyet açısından sosyal statüde en alt tabakada bulunur. Bu bakımdan, romanı ırkın yanı sıra siyah feminist hareketini de desteklemektedir. Bu çalışma, Hurston'ın edebiyattaki önemini ortaya koyacak ve diğer ünlü Afrikalı Amerikan yazarların makaleleri ve açıklamalarıyla desteklenecektir. Bahsedilen roman neden bu kadar önemlidir? Afrikalı Amerikalı edebiyatına hangi perspektiflerden katkıda bulunmuştur? Neden Hurston'ın romanı Gözleri Tanrıyı Seyrediyordu çoğunlukla eleştirilmiştir? Siyah feminizm alanında önemli bir yere sahip olan bu roman, siyah kadınların hem ırk hem de cinsiyet eşitsizlikleriyle dolu hayatını incelemiştir. Bu çalışma, Zora Neale Hurston'ın otobiyografik romanı Dust Tracks on a Road An Autobiography (1984), Gözleri Tanrıyı Seyrediyordu (1937) ve Alice Walker'ın "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston"(1975) makalesinden örneklerle bu soruları cevaplamaya çalışmaktadır.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 23, 2022
Mitoloji, farklı kültürleri bir araya getirdiği ve insanların iletişiminde ortak bir dil yarattığ... more Mitoloji, farklı kültürleri bir araya getirdiği ve insanların iletişiminde ortak bir dil yarattığı için evrensel bir gerçekliktir. Mitolojinin gücü o kadar güçlüdür ki 15. yüzyılda yaşamış ressam Pieter Brueghel ile 20. yüzyılda yaşamış şair William Carlos Williams ortak bir noktada buluşur. Mitoloji iki farklı yüzyılı bir araya getirerek kültürel akış sağlar. Williams Brueghel'ın resimlerini Kunsthistorishes Müzesi'nde gördüğünde, bunlarla ilgili şiir yazmaya karar verir ve bu ekfrasis şiirler mitolojik yansımaları gösterir. Bu sanatsal yapıtlar mitolojik öyküleri içinde barındırır ve çalışma mitsel illüstrasyonların yanında şiirlerin nasıl oluşturulduğunu ifade edecektir. Bu çalışma, şiirlerin mitsel ögeleri nasıl ifade ettiğini gösterecektir. Kelimeler ve resimler arasında oluşan köprü, Williams ve Brueghel'ın kültürel yansımalarında mitolojiyle bütünleşir. Bu noktada, mitoloji her yerdedir ve etkileri tarihte hala devam eden süreçleri vurgulamaktadır. Mit ya da mitoloji, insanların zihninde her zaman üstün bir kavramdır ve mitolojinin bu üstün gücü insanlara sonsuz illüstrasyonlar gösterir. Pieter Brueghel bu gücü kullanan artistlerden biridir. Onun resimlerinde pek çok mitolojik referanslar vardır ve Brueghel'ın dönemini anlamak açısından her biri öğretici niteliktedir. Bu mitolojik örnekler William Carlos Williams ile kelimeler aracılığıyla 20. yüzyılda tekrar hayat bulur ve mitoloji bağlamında iki farklı yüzyılın birbiriyle nasıl buluştuğunu samimi bir bağ ile gösterir. Mitoloji niçin evrensel bir gerçekliktir? Hangi yönlerden Williams ve Brueghel sanatlarında bunu kullanır? Sanatta mitolojik yansımaların özü nedir? Bu çalışma, belirtilen sorulara cevap vermeye çalışacak ve sizi bir gezinti gibi 15. yüzyıldan 20. yüzyıla götürecektir.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 28, 2022
Amerika'daki etnik gruplar her zaman kimlik arayışı içindedirler, çünkü kendi kültürlerinden ve b... more Amerika'daki etnik gruplar her zaman kimlik arayışı içindedirler, çünkü kendi kültürlerinden ve benliklerinden uzakta yaşam sürerler. Bu süreçte hem geçmiş hem de gelecek ile bağlantılarını devam ettirerek kimliklerini kaybetmemeye çalışırlar. Bu noktada, etnik otobiyografi topluluktaki üyeler arasında var olan aydınlatıcı bir bakış açısı yaratır. Amerika'da yaşayan pek çok etnik grup vardır ve bunlardan biri de Çinli Amerikalılardır. Amerika birçok etnik gruba ev sahipliği yaptığı için mozaik bir yapıya sahiptir. Bu çalışma, Amy Tan'in yazdığı "Mother Tongue" adlı yazısını etnik otobiyografik bakış açısından inceleyecektir. Bu kaynak dilin nasıl sınırlar oluşturduğunu ve karakterleri sessizliğe ittiğini gösterecektir. Bu sessizlik bir tür kültürel yabancılaşma ve yalnızlıktır. Tan etnik farklılıktan yola çıkarak ötekileşme duygusunu deneyimlemiş ve kendi kişisel deneyimleriyle birlikte etnik otobiyografi türünde anlatmıştır. Gerçek olaylar okuyucuları her zaman daha derinden etkilediği için çalışma okuyucularda duygusal etkiler oluşturmuştur. Dil gibi sosyolojik bakış açısının yanı sıra, eser Amy'nin kendi bireysel ifadeleriyle hayatını yansıtmaktadır. Bu nedenle, çok yönlü bakış açısına sahip olan eser bir tür sosyolojik, kültürel ve biyografik çalışma niteliğinde olacaktır. Bunun yanı sıra, eser protesto edebiyatına güzel bir örnek olabilir, çünkü Çinli Amerikalı örnekler ile etnik ayrımcılığı eleştirmektedir. "Mother Tongue" hangi yönlerden etnik otobiyografinin içinde yer alır? Amerikan toplumundaki Çinli Amerikalıların deneyimleri nasıldı ve ne gibi zorluklar yaşadılar? Çinli Amerikalılar için kimlik ne demektir? Bu çalışma, bütün bu soruları farklı bir etnik grup olan Çinli Amerikalı yazarın tecrübeleri ışığında yanıtlamaya çalışır.
Thesis Chapters by Dr. Gamze Ar
Ege University (Doctoral Dissertation), 2025
Children's literature is a significant genre that constructs thought patterns in children's socia... more Children's literature is a significant genre that constructs thought patterns in children's socially shaped worlds through naturally formed ideas from their families. Given its multinational composition, the United States serves as a valuable example showcasing the circumstances and impacts on children from ethnic minority groups. Historically, racism reached its peak throughout the Civil Rights Era (1954-1968), during which many African American writers struggled within the suppressed spaces filled with brutal discrimination and racial disparities in American society. Jacqueline Woodson (1963-) stands out as a significant author in the realm of African American picture books in the United States, having encountered racist discourses and practices throughout her life. Consequently, her picture books reflect her personal experiences. The theoretical part of this study presents how picture books shape the minds of Black children within the context of racial theories. In this regard, the doctoral dissertation will analyze thirteen of Jacqueline Woodson's picture books through the lens of two distinct theoretical approaches. All these books have been examined using frameworks such as Racial Identity Theory and Critical Race Theory. This dissertation will thus present an analysis of picture books not only for African American children but also for children from other young age groups.
Gothic Feminism is an authentic term for revealing the relationship between gothic and feminism, ... more Gothic Feminism is an authentic term for revealing the relationship between gothic and feminism, and the Netflix Series Lucifer opens perfect dimensions to emphasize how women are merged with the supernatural elements in the series. The main character Lucifer is a significant figure in the context of creating the gothic feminist outlook in the series, and so it can be said that Lucifer is a great manifestation about reflecting feminist thoughts with strong figures such as Decker and Charlotte Richards. On the other hand, the evil side of the series affects audiences while creating fearful aspirations. In the series, women sometimes seem as if they are vulnerable to men’s hegemony, or sometimes their behaviors lead them to be heroic status. This presentation will explicitly present how the characters reflect gothic feminism and its main thematic approaches.
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International Journal of Language and Translation Studies, 2023
In America, there are numerous ethnic diversities, such as Indigenous people, Mexican Americans, ... more In America, there are numerous ethnic diversities, such as Indigenous people, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, etc. Native Americans are the oldest nation, which constructs the essential origin in the U.S., so it can be said that America was created with various patterns of ethnic minorities. Like other ethnic groups, Native Americans encounter many hardships and discriminations, such as cultural and physical assimilations in the white dominant American system. Ancestors of Native people are known for their long and robust history because their traditions are based upon strong and unifying family values. Because of respecting their past and family traditions, Indigenous people construct their communal way of life, and America is against this notion with its individualistic outlook towards life. Thus, throughout history, there have always been great clashes between the whites and Native people. Besides, many debates have existed about the relationship between Native Americans and Turks throughout history. From which perspectives does Louise Erdrich reflect the Native American motifs in Love Medicine? What is the essential relation between the Native Americans and the Turks? How does Erdrich approach the history of Native Americans? This study sheds light on these questions with the close similarities between the Turkish and American cultures.
Çeşm-i Cihan: Journal of History, Culture, and Art Studies (E-Journal), 2023
Allen Ginsberg, a prominent American poet and writer, is widely recognized for his significant co... more Allen Ginsberg, a prominent American poet and writer, is widely recognized for his significant contribution to American literature by creating his authentic style and as a critical figure in the Beat Generation. This literary movement emerged in the 1950s as a response to the time's oppressive and conservative societal norms, including the fear of nuclear war, the rise of consumerism, and the stifling conformity of the Cold War era. Ginsberg's literary voice captured the essence of this movement, expressing its countercultural values through his descriptions and language, which were often explicit and straightforward. This study examines "Howl" through the lens of Lefebvre's Spatial Theory, which provides a critical framework for analyzing the spatial dimensions of social life. By applying Lefebvre's theory, this analysis reveals the spatial dimensions of the poem, including the relationship between space and time and the relationship between poetry and language. The use of spatial theory in literary analysis offers a unique perspective on the social and cultural context of the time, providing insights into how spatial and ideological power relations are reflected in literature. This study will contribute to a sociological commentary on American literature as it explores the role of space and place in the production and reception of literary works. It also provides an analytical framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of social life in 1950s America.
Melius: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 2023
Gender is a complex issue, especially for women in Iraq during its tumultuous historical period, ... more Gender is a complex issue, especially for women in Iraq during its tumultuous historical period, and many women suffer from both gendered and racial hardships. Not only sexual harassment but also a patriarchal society oppress their physical and psychological state of mind. Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire is an excellent symbol for indicating how diverse women portray different identities and experiences. However, each of them fights for one thing: love. Patriarchal regulations, with their clothing rules or religious restrictions, create limited space for Iraqi women in the play, and the women search for liberation throughout the play. Some escape from their home countries, and some stay and fight for freedom. However, each character in the play struggles bravely against difficulties. This study will examine these women regarding identity, racial, and gender theories. From these approaches, the gender theory will uncover the essence of the play due to dealing with nine women’s search for desire. The space reflects these women with lyrical statements, so the theatrical play must be narrated in a poetic monologue. Using the theories of Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, and Julia Kristeva, the study creates authentic perspectives in Middle Eastern American Drama.
BELGÜ, 2023
African American literature establishes a great artistic field with diverse cultural and thematic... more African American literature establishes a great artistic field with diverse cultural and thematic experiences. Throughout history, African Americans have experienced many troubles, such as segregation and discrimination in various areas. However, their literature shows a significant resistance to all the troubles in history. Numerous writers and artists explore themes such as African American culture, racism, religion, slavery, and a sense of homelessness, one of whom is Zora Neale Hurston. Besides her race, she is also a woman, so she is both a woman and a colored person at the bottom of the social ladder. Thus, Their Eyes Were Watching God is not only a source of race but also gender. This paper sheds light on the importance of Zora Neale Hurston in African American literature, and the study will be supported by other famous Afro-American writers’ articles and statements. Why is she so important? From which perspectives did she contribute to African American literature? Why was her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God mostly criticized? This novel, being important in the field of Black Feminism, concerns the hardships of black women
racially and sexually. This study will answer these questions with examples from Zora Neale Hurston’s autobiographical novel Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (1984), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Alice Walker’s article “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston” (1975).
The Critical Outlook to Eleni Sikelianos’ Body Clock: Poems with the Theoretical Backgrounds from Theorists Julia Kristeva and Susanna Egan, 2021
This paper analyzes Body Clock: Poems 2 in the perspective of Julia Kristeva's Desire in Language... more This paper analyzes Body Clock: Poems 2 in the perspective of Julia Kristeva's Desire in Language A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. It explicitly sheds light on Eleni Sikelianos's poems in Body Clock with two different theorists such as Kristeva and Egan. Eleni Sikelianos' (1965-) both visual and verbal narrative style attribute an authentic outlook for readers, and they see the power of her performative style. The process of giving birth is narrated so creatively that when people read her poems, they will understand how life is a meaningful thing. The study will start with the life of Eleni Sikelianos, who is the author of Body Clock which reveals the idea of birth, womanhood, imaginative mind, and so on. Secondly, Body Clock is explained with its main concepts such as time, biology, motherhood including the growth of body and birth, and her drawings. The third part of the study will examine the poems of Body Clock from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. This analysis will concern four theoretical backgrounds: "the speaking/ split subject," "semiotic chora & symbolic device," "maternal body/ drive," and "poetic language/carnivalesque." In the fourth section of the paper, Body Clock is analyzed in terms of three concepts such as the mirror conception, body status and language in control of meaning in Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography written by Susanna Egan.
yedi, 2022
The meaning of home differs from one person to another. America hosts many hybrid cultures and on... more The meaning of home differs from one person to another. America hosts many hybrid cultures and one of them is the Arab American identity. These people suffer from many hardships not only because of their religious differences, but also their traditional alienation to American culture. This paper will analyze the Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi's play Ten Acrobats in An Amazing Leap of Faith (2018), presenting the fear and anxiety for the unknown culture in an Arab American family who struggle with identity problems and the American lifestyle. The concept of in-betweenness will be analyzed in each character and as Stuart Hall mentioned in his theory, this study will carry out "the eye of the needle of the other before it can construct itself" (1996, p. 89). As for identity framework, each character will be examined in terms of identity, gender and religious perspectives. The hardships of each character throws light on various commentaries in relating to the identity analyses and this study will explicitly show how the concept of identity will be shown with different Arab Americans. The cultural conflict is understood with Arab American identities that captivated the hegemonic Americanized thought system in America. While analyzing all characters in the play, this study will present how El Guindi reflects upon the lives of in-between Arab Americans with various issues such as religion, gender and race. While studying themes such as identity, religion, gender and race, the framework will be considered according to the theorists like Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Belgü, 2022
Mitoloji, farklı kültürleri bir araya getirdiği ve insanların iletişiminde ortak bir dil yarattığ... more Mitoloji, farklı kültürleri bir araya getirdiği ve insanların iletişiminde ortak bir dil yarattığı için evrensel bir gerçekliktir. Mitolojinin gücü o kadar güçlüdür ki 15. yüzyılda yaşamış ressam Pieter Brueghel ile 20. yüzyılda yaşamış şair William Carlos Williams ortak bir noktada buluşur. Mitoloji iki farklı yüzyılı bir araya getirerek kültürel akış sağlar. Williams Brueghel'ın resimlerini Kunsthistorishes Müzesi'nde gördüğünde, bunlarla ilgili şiir yazmaya karar verir ve bu ekfrasis şiirler mitolojik yansımaları gösterir. Bu sanatsal yapıtlar mitolojik öyküleri içinde barındırır ve çalışma mitsel illüstrasyonların yanında şiirlerin nasıl oluşturulduğunu ifade edecektir. Bu çalışma, şiirlerin mitsel ögeleri nasıl ifade ettiğini gösterecektir. Kelimeler ve resimler arasında oluşan köprü, Williams ve Brueghel'ın kültürel yansımalarında mitolojiyle bütünleşir. Bu noktada, mitoloji her yerdedir ve etkileri tarihte hala devam eden süreçleri vurgulamaktadır. Mit ya da mitoloji, insanların zihninde her zaman üstün bir kavramdır ve mitolojinin bu üstün gücü insanlara sonsuz illüstrasyonlar gösterir. Pieter Brueghel bu gücü kullanan artistlerden biridir. Onun resimlerinde pek çok mitolojik referanslar vardır ve Brueghel'ın dönemini anlamak açısından her biri öğretici niteliktedir. Bu mitolojik örnekler William Carlos Williams ile kelimeler aracılığıyla 20. yüzyılda tekrar hayat bulur ve mitoloji bağlamında iki farklı yüzyılın birbiriyle nasıl buluştuğunu samimi bir bağ ile gösterir. Mitoloji niçin evrensel bir gerçekliktir? Hangi yönlerden Williams ve Brueghel sanatlarında bunu kullanır? Sanatta mitolojik yansımaların özü nedir? Bu çalışma, belirtilen sorulara cevap vermeye çalışacak ve sizi bir gezinti gibi 15. yüzyıldan 20. yüzyıla götürecektir.
Bartın Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2022
Ethnic minorities in America are always in the search of identity because of being far away from ... more Ethnic minorities in America are always in the search of identity because of being far away from their cultural and traditional practices. In this process, they try to construct their identities within the connections to their past and present together. At that point, ethnic autobiography creates an insightful perspective in that it presents the existing links among the members of a community: a common past, and a political project for the future of that community. (Renán, 1990,19) There are many ethnic groups living in America, and one of them is the Chinese Americans. America is like a mosaic with various ethnic groups living there. This study will seek “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan in the light of ethnic autobiographical considerations. This autobiographical source indicates how the language creates boundaries and it pushes characters into silence. This silence is a kind of psychological loneliness and cultural alienation. Tan closely experiences the otherness with her ethnic difference and she uses the genre of ethnic autobiography while narrating her personal memories because the real issues always affect the readers more deeply. Besides the sociological concerns such as language, it also explores the life of Tan with her own personal expressions. Thus, it is a kind of sociological, cultural and biographical text, and it also deals with multi-dimensional critical outlooks. It is also a great example inside protest literature because it criticizes ethnic discrimination with the examples from the life of Chinese American. From which perspectives does “Mother Tongue” approach the ethnic issue? How do the Chinese-Americans suffer from hardships in American society? What does the identity of Chinese-Americans mean for themselves? This paper tries to light on these questions in the framework of different ethnicities in America.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 31, 2022
Throughout history the world faces many destructions and misdeeds of humankind with the anthropoc... more Throughout history the world faces many destructions and misdeeds of humankind with the anthropocentric perspective that tries to dominate nature. This approach poses a great threat to the world in that the extensive misuse of natural sources affects each part of life. The deforestation, nuclear threat and torturing of animals are the essential problems of modern world, and the cycle of the mother earth becomes disordered ecological disaster at the end. As regarding to these issues, there arose new theories of analyzing the environmental subjects as the central point, and it is called as Ecocriticism. Ecocriticism is a well-known movement which deals with ecocritical outlook to the literary texts in the opposition of anthropocentrism. This paper seeks to reveal how the story "Zoogoing" written by Lydia Millet brings ecocritical literacy towards the rights of animals, especially predators. It analyzes the story from the anthropocentric and ecocentric aspects. This story provides to understand the eco-conscious process within animals and human's reactions. Thus, it is an interpretive ecocritical analysis of animals inside zoo and their instinctual behaviors towards the humankind. At that point, human behaviors and its perception towards animals construct a crucial analysis in Ecocriticism.
CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research - Zenodo, Dec 31, 2021
The actual physical borderland that I'm dealing with in this book is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexi... more The actual physical borderland that I'm dealing with in this book is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact, the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals shrinks with intimacy. I am a border woman. I grew up between two cultures, the preface) Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) manifests the life of the author herself. She expresses her personal experiences and she also tells the history of Chicano Movement. It plays a critical role in the maintenance of presenting the ethnic and identity problems This feeling creates some themes, in the book, such as belongingness, otherness, the concept of home, becoming rather than being, ethnic mosaic, sexist discourses and consciousness. The fering from being an identity, and she is continuously on the path and she is in the manner of becoming rather than being. She is living the in-betweenness in the book Borderlands the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas in 1942, and her heritage was based on the mixture of grew up between two cultures. Borderlands) Because of this dilemma she was seen as alien and she also felt like a stranger in the question of existence. In which space did she belong to? Was she Mexican or American in terms of Borderlands? From which perspectives is this book considered as a diasporic study? How did she deal with identity, gender and ethni and Borderlands will be examined in terms of these aspects in a detailed way.
Gothic Feminism is an authentic term for revealing the relationship between gothic and feminism, ... more Gothic Feminism is an authentic term for revealing the relationship between gothic and feminism, and the Netflix Series Lucifer opens perfect dimensions to emphasize how women are merged with the supernatural elements in the series. The main character Lucifer is a significant figure in the context of creating the gothic feminist outlook in the series, and so it can be said that Lucifer is a great manifestation about reflecting feminist thoughts with strong figures such as Decker and Charlotte Richards. On the other hand, the evil side of the series affects audiences while creating fearful aspirations. In the series, women sometimes seem as if they are vulnerable to men’s hegemony, or sometimes their behaviors lead them to be heroic status. This presentation will explicitly present how the characters reflect gothic feminism and its main thematic approaches. How did the main character Lucifer affect the women? Why did he appear as a vulnerable Satan against a woman like Decker? From which perspectives did the presentation shed light on Lucifer as a gothic feminist genre? This presentation will try to answer these questions and while examining them, it will be a great source for gothic feminism in American popular culture. Lucifer is a highly well-known series in terms of its authentic subject matter and thematic approaches; thus, its relationship will be detailly examined within the gothic feminist theoretical aspect. In addition to Gothic Feminism, Lucifer is also considered as the “Satanic Feminism” and it will be explicitly seen in the paper. This study will focus on three women characters such as Maze who is considered as the evil figure in Lucifer, Charlotte Richards who is normally a mother in the world but is sometimes seen as the wife of God in the series, and Chole Decker who is an ambitious detective. Besides these women characters, there are also many other women characters, but the presentation will mostly explore these three women and their relations with Lucifer in the context of gothic feminism. Keywords: Gothic Feminism; The Netflix series Lucifer; Woman Studies; Gender; Gothic Literature; “Satanic Feminism.”
Covid-19 is a crucial problem in recent history and people are getting desperate against this vir... more Covid-19 is a crucial problem in recent history and people are getting desperate against this virus. However, some are trying to increase the motivation of people against this grievance with creative ideas. One of them is the artist Genevieve Blais who formed the art history in the mood of Covid-19. Her authentic style attributes diverse perspectives into the world of art as its effects are catchier than other techniques. The methods which Blais used in her art narrate Covid-19 while integrating past and present together in that people are in desire of travelling throughout history. At that point, this study aims to reflect how the cultural heritage combines the recent pandemic situation with art history, and it also constructs an outstanding interest in the art history and pandemic consciousness. This study will focus on these artistic works with the effects of Covid-19 and its results. Why did Genevieve Blais prefer to reflect this style? How did she get the idea of this artistic creation? From which perspectives is she involved in the process?
International Symposium on Business, Economics, and education ISBE 2021, 2021
Covid-19 is a crucial problem in recent history and people are getting desperate against this vir... more Covid-19 is a crucial problem in recent history and people are getting desperate against this virus. However, some are trying to increase the motivation of people against this grievance with creative ideas. One of them is the artist Genevieve Blais who formed the art history in the mood of Covid-19. Her authentic style attributes diverse perspectives into the world of art as its effects are catchier than other techniques. The methods which Blais used in her art narrate Covid-19 while integrating past and present together in that people are in desire of travelling throughout history. At that point, this study aims to reflect how the cultural heritage combines with the recent pandemic situation and this method constructs an outstanding interest in the art history and pandemic consciousness. This study will focus on these artistic works with the effects of Covid-19 and its results. Why did Genevieve Blais prefer to reflect this style? How did she get the idea of this artistic creation? From which perspectives is she involved in the process? We are still suffering from the bad results of Covid-19 in that many people are captivated into their homes. This event provides to understand the value of world and many people consider this pandemic situation as a warning against all destructive human deeds. This study will reveal the effects and consequences of Covid-19 with the authentic creations such as ancient paintings in the version of pandemic productions.
This research examines the eleven poems of the Modernist American poet, William Carlos Williams w... more This research examines the eleven poems of the Modernist American poet, William Carlos Williams who is inspired by the masterpieces of the Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, of the fifteenth century. The inter-relation between painting and poetry is called ekphrasis, which can be simply explained as the linguistic projection of visual art. Heffernan (1939-) defines this term as “the verbal representations of visual representations.” In addition to ekphrasis, this thesis aims to analyze the eleven poems of Williams in terms of structural, symbolic and thematic approaches. The primary source of this study is the poetry book, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962) by Williams who has reflected upon the paintings of Brueghel. The first part of this study will focus on Williams’ poetic life in order to understand the ekphrastic nature of his selected poems. For instance, when did Williams’ interest for visual art start? Where did he acquire the idea that revealed the paintings of Bruegel in the embodiment of words? What did it mean to analyze Brueghel’s paintings? All these questions and more will be answered in the research. This thesis focuses not only on the poet, Williams and his poetic revelations, but also on Brueghel’s artistic perspectives and concerns. The research aims to construct versatile experiences and enrich new dimensions in readers.
Belgü, Dec 28, 2023
Afrikalı Amerikalı edebiyatı, farklı kültürel ve tematik deneyimlerle büyük bir sanatsal alan olu... more Afrikalı Amerikalı edebiyatı, farklı kültürel ve tematik deneyimlerle büyük bir sanatsal alan oluşturmaktadır. Tarih boyunca Afrikalı Amerikalılar, çeşitli alanlarda ırkçılık ve ayrımcılık gibi birçok sorunla karşı karşıya kalmıştır. Ancak edebiyatları, tarih boyunca yaşadıkları tüm sorunlara karşı önemli bir direniş göstermiştir. Pek çok farklı yazar ırkçılık, din, kölelik ve aidiyetlik gibi temaları eserlerinde kaleme almıştır. Bu yazarlardan biri de Zora Neale Hurston'dır. Hurston siyah bir kadındır ve hem ırk hem de cinsiyet açısından sosyal statüde en alt tabakada bulunur. Bu bakımdan, romanı ırkın yanı sıra siyah feminist hareketini de desteklemektedir. Bu çalışma, Hurston'ın edebiyattaki önemini ortaya koyacak ve diğer ünlü Afrikalı Amerikan yazarların makaleleri ve açıklamalarıyla desteklenecektir. Bahsedilen roman neden bu kadar önemlidir? Afrikalı Amerikalı edebiyatına hangi perspektiflerden katkıda bulunmuştur? Neden Hurston'ın romanı Gözleri Tanrıyı Seyrediyordu çoğunlukla eleştirilmiştir? Siyah feminizm alanında önemli bir yere sahip olan bu roman, siyah kadınların hem ırk hem de cinsiyet eşitsizlikleriyle dolu hayatını incelemiştir. Bu çalışma, Zora Neale Hurston'ın otobiyografik romanı Dust Tracks on a Road An Autobiography (1984), Gözleri Tanrıyı Seyrediyordu (1937) ve Alice Walker'ın "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston"(1975) makalesinden örneklerle bu soruları cevaplamaya çalışmaktadır.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 23, 2022
Mitoloji, farklı kültürleri bir araya getirdiği ve insanların iletişiminde ortak bir dil yarattığ... more Mitoloji, farklı kültürleri bir araya getirdiği ve insanların iletişiminde ortak bir dil yarattığı için evrensel bir gerçekliktir. Mitolojinin gücü o kadar güçlüdür ki 15. yüzyılda yaşamış ressam Pieter Brueghel ile 20. yüzyılda yaşamış şair William Carlos Williams ortak bir noktada buluşur. Mitoloji iki farklı yüzyılı bir araya getirerek kültürel akış sağlar. Williams Brueghel'ın resimlerini Kunsthistorishes Müzesi'nde gördüğünde, bunlarla ilgili şiir yazmaya karar verir ve bu ekfrasis şiirler mitolojik yansımaları gösterir. Bu sanatsal yapıtlar mitolojik öyküleri içinde barındırır ve çalışma mitsel illüstrasyonların yanında şiirlerin nasıl oluşturulduğunu ifade edecektir. Bu çalışma, şiirlerin mitsel ögeleri nasıl ifade ettiğini gösterecektir. Kelimeler ve resimler arasında oluşan köprü, Williams ve Brueghel'ın kültürel yansımalarında mitolojiyle bütünleşir. Bu noktada, mitoloji her yerdedir ve etkileri tarihte hala devam eden süreçleri vurgulamaktadır. Mit ya da mitoloji, insanların zihninde her zaman üstün bir kavramdır ve mitolojinin bu üstün gücü insanlara sonsuz illüstrasyonlar gösterir. Pieter Brueghel bu gücü kullanan artistlerden biridir. Onun resimlerinde pek çok mitolojik referanslar vardır ve Brueghel'ın dönemini anlamak açısından her biri öğretici niteliktedir. Bu mitolojik örnekler William Carlos Williams ile kelimeler aracılığıyla 20. yüzyılda tekrar hayat bulur ve mitoloji bağlamında iki farklı yüzyılın birbiriyle nasıl buluştuğunu samimi bir bağ ile gösterir. Mitoloji niçin evrensel bir gerçekliktir? Hangi yönlerden Williams ve Brueghel sanatlarında bunu kullanır? Sanatta mitolojik yansımaların özü nedir? Bu çalışma, belirtilen sorulara cevap vermeye çalışacak ve sizi bir gezinti gibi 15. yüzyıldan 20. yüzyıla götürecektir.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 28, 2022
Amerika'daki etnik gruplar her zaman kimlik arayışı içindedirler, çünkü kendi kültürlerinden ve b... more Amerika'daki etnik gruplar her zaman kimlik arayışı içindedirler, çünkü kendi kültürlerinden ve benliklerinden uzakta yaşam sürerler. Bu süreçte hem geçmiş hem de gelecek ile bağlantılarını devam ettirerek kimliklerini kaybetmemeye çalışırlar. Bu noktada, etnik otobiyografi topluluktaki üyeler arasında var olan aydınlatıcı bir bakış açısı yaratır. Amerika'da yaşayan pek çok etnik grup vardır ve bunlardan biri de Çinli Amerikalılardır. Amerika birçok etnik gruba ev sahipliği yaptığı için mozaik bir yapıya sahiptir. Bu çalışma, Amy Tan'in yazdığı "Mother Tongue" adlı yazısını etnik otobiyografik bakış açısından inceleyecektir. Bu kaynak dilin nasıl sınırlar oluşturduğunu ve karakterleri sessizliğe ittiğini gösterecektir. Bu sessizlik bir tür kültürel yabancılaşma ve yalnızlıktır. Tan etnik farklılıktan yola çıkarak ötekileşme duygusunu deneyimlemiş ve kendi kişisel deneyimleriyle birlikte etnik otobiyografi türünde anlatmıştır. Gerçek olaylar okuyucuları her zaman daha derinden etkilediği için çalışma okuyucularda duygusal etkiler oluşturmuştur. Dil gibi sosyolojik bakış açısının yanı sıra, eser Amy'nin kendi bireysel ifadeleriyle hayatını yansıtmaktadır. Bu nedenle, çok yönlü bakış açısına sahip olan eser bir tür sosyolojik, kültürel ve biyografik çalışma niteliğinde olacaktır. Bunun yanı sıra, eser protesto edebiyatına güzel bir örnek olabilir, çünkü Çinli Amerikalı örnekler ile etnik ayrımcılığı eleştirmektedir. "Mother Tongue" hangi yönlerden etnik otobiyografinin içinde yer alır? Amerikan toplumundaki Çinli Amerikalıların deneyimleri nasıldı ve ne gibi zorluklar yaşadılar? Çinli Amerikalılar için kimlik ne demektir? Bu çalışma, bütün bu soruları farklı bir etnik grup olan Çinli Amerikalı yazarın tecrübeleri ışığında yanıtlamaya çalışır.
Ege University (Doctoral Dissertation), 2025
Children's literature is a significant genre that constructs thought patterns in children's socia... more Children's literature is a significant genre that constructs thought patterns in children's socially shaped worlds through naturally formed ideas from their families. Given its multinational composition, the United States serves as a valuable example showcasing the circumstances and impacts on children from ethnic minority groups. Historically, racism reached its peak throughout the Civil Rights Era (1954-1968), during which many African American writers struggled within the suppressed spaces filled with brutal discrimination and racial disparities in American society. Jacqueline Woodson (1963-) stands out as a significant author in the realm of African American picture books in the United States, having encountered racist discourses and practices throughout her life. Consequently, her picture books reflect her personal experiences. The theoretical part of this study presents how picture books shape the minds of Black children within the context of racial theories. In this regard, the doctoral dissertation will analyze thirteen of Jacqueline Woodson's picture books through the lens of two distinct theoretical approaches. All these books have been examined using frameworks such as Racial Identity Theory and Critical Race Theory. This dissertation will thus present an analysis of picture books not only for African American children but also for children from other young age groups.