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CROWN OF DONKEY THISTLES – A STORY ABOUT PAIN AND FORGIVENESS: THEMATIC AND STYLISTIC ANALYSIS, 2024

ABSTRACT Interwoven with the threads of historical memory and social trauma caused by the assimil... more ABSTRACT
Interwoven with the threads of historical memory and social trauma caused by the assimilation policies of communist Bulgaria, Hasan Efraimov’s short story Crown of Donkey Thistles1 skilfully develops universal themes such as human suffering, kindness and forgiveness in his collection of short stories The Collector of Pain2. Divided into two main parts- thematic and stylistic analysis- this research paper emphasises the unique combination of narrative strategy and thematic depth in Efraimov’s work. The short story highlights the importance of seeking forgiveness and inner peace and stresses how complex the relationship between personal pain and collective memory is in the context of historical conflicts. From a stylistic perspective, with rich symbolism and metaphoric use of language, the author creates an emotional intensity in the characters and their experiences. Delving into the depths of the human soul, Hasan Efraimov’s Crown of Donkey Thistles is a story that, by revealing the social traumas of a suppressed past, opens the doors of deep understanding and forgiveness.

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Изтъкан с нишките на историческа памет и социална травма, предизвикана от асимилационните политики на комунистическа България, разказът Корона от магарешки бодили на Хасан Ефраимов, включен в сборника от разкази Събирачът на Болка, изкусно разработва универсални теми като душевна болка, човешко страдание, доброта и прошка. Разделен на две основни части – тематичен и стилистичен анализ, настоящето научно изследване подчертава успешното съчетание на наративна стратегия и тематична дълбочина в творбата на Хасан Ефраимов. Произведението придава особено значение на това колко важно е търсенето на прошка и душевен мир и колко комплексна е връзката между личната болка и колективната памет в контекста на исторически конфликти. От стилистична гледна точка, с богата символика и метафорика и майсторски използвайки езика, авторът създава емоционална наситеност на героите и техните преживявания. Проникващ в дълбините на човешката душа, Корона от магарешки бодили е разказ, който чрез разкриване на социални травми от заглушеното минало разтваря широко врати към дълбоко разбиране, душевен покой и опрощение.

Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Considered to be affective mediums exercising powers changing the humoral balances of bodies, the... more Considered to be affective mediums exercising powers changing the humoral balances of bodies, theatre plays have been severely attacked on the grounds that they provoke strong emotions by early modern critics such as Stephen Gosson and Philip Stubbes in the Shakespearean period. According to Stephen Gosson, for instance, due to their emotional and physiological impact theatre performances weakened and undermined audiences’ capacities to reason and judge; and thus, needed to be prohibited altogether. This study provides a detailed analysis of the Hecuba speech (II, ii) in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Through the Player’s and Hamlet’s reactions to the Hecuba-speech, it will discuss the characters’ attitudes towards theatre and comment on early modern theatre debates. The study will further discuss William Shakespeare’s stand on the affective potential of theatre in times when theatre plays have been considered contagious and altering the balance between minds, passions and bodies.

Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022

Considered to be affective mediums exercising powers changing the humoral balances of bodies, the... more Considered to be affective mediums exercising powers changing the humoral balances of bodies, theatre plays have been severely attacked on the grounds that they provoke strong emotions by early modern critics such as Stephen Gosson and Philip Stubbes in the Shakespearean period. According to Stephen Gosson, for instance, due to their emotional and physiological impact theatre performances weakened and undermined audiences' capacities to reason and judge; and thus, needed to be prohibited altogether. This study provides a detailed analysis of the Hecuba speech (II, ii) in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Through the Player's and Hamlet's reactions to the Hecuba-speech, it will discuss the characters' attitudes towards theatre and comment on early modern theatre debates. The study will further discuss William Shakespeare's stand on the affective potential of theatre in times when theatre plays have been considered contagious and altering the balance between minds, passions and bodies.

Ezikov Svyat volume 19 issue 3, 2021

Baby-eating, eye-gouging, rape, torture, "people packing into trucks like pigs" fleeing... more Baby-eating, eye-gouging, rape, torture, "people packing into trucks like pigs" fleeing in fear of the war – Sarah Kane's first breathtaking play Blasted has been one of the most noted cultural events since the 1990s. Although Kane has shared that she wanted to attract attention to the war in Bosnia, to make people see the old woman from Srebrenica, and hear her plea for help (Sierz, 2001, pp.100-101), the name of Bosnia is never mentioned in the play. The playwright's intention to provoke reaction to the violence in the specific political context has not diminished the universality of her work. The following study explores the affective circulations within the fictional world of Blasted by analysing the Soldier's presence in terms of emotions. It offers three readings of the Soldier’s brutal behaviour within the play and suggests that ‘confession’ is of vital importance for the process of traumatic emotional and physical healing. The play is mainly approached ...

Abstract: The concepts of ‘motherland ’and ‘homeland’ are highly complicated for the Turks who we... more Abstract: The concepts of ‘motherland ’and ‘homeland’ are highly complicated for the Turks who were expelled from Bulgaria after the forced migration in 1989 during Todor Jivkov’s communist regime. Even though many of them have accepted Turkey as their ‘home’, Bulgaria –where they were born and raised, where the tombs of their ancestors are – holds a sacred place in their hearts and minds. This paper is a comparative study of Ahmet Şerif Şerefli, Latif Ali Yıldırım, Zahit Güney, Niyazi Hüseyin Bahtiyar, and Ahmet Emin Atasoy’s Bulgaria themed poems. It approaches them in the light of the emotions and affects such as love, hatred, sadness and desperation in Ibrahim Kamberoğlu’s poem “Conversation with Children”. The study examines the concepts of home, homeland and motherland as well as the sense of belonging to a place (more than one place) and analyses migrants’ relationship to things that remind them of Bulgaria – their houses, nature, experiences. The main focus is on the historical and socio psychological dimension of the poem “Conversation with Children” and the difficult emotional and spatial relation between the person forced to migrate and the place left behind.
Keywords: Turkish Migrant Poems, Bulgaria, Motherland, Homeland, Sense of Belonging, Longing.

Öz: 1989 Zorunlu Göçü'yle Bulgaristan'dan gelen Türkler için memleket ve vatan kavramları karmaşıktır. Türkiye'yi vatanları görüp kabul etmiş olsalar da, kalplerinde, doğup büyüdükleri yerlerdeki hatıralarını, geleceğe dönük hayallerini bırakmak zorunda kaldıkları, yakınlarının mezarlarının bulunduğu Bulgaristan onlar için bir başkadır. Bu makalede göçmenlerin, Bulgaristan'a karşı hissettikleri özlemle karışık aşk, öfke, çaresizlik gibi duyguları İbrahim Kamberoğlu'nun "Çocuklarla Hasbihâl" şiirinde ele alınmakla birlikte Ahmet Şerif Şerefli, Latif Ali Yıldırım, Zahit Güney, Niyazi Hüseyin Bahtiyar ve Ahmet Emin Atasoy gibi şairlerin Bulgaristan temalı şiirleriyle karşılaştırarak incelenmektedir. Makale vatan ve bir yere ait olma kavramlarını ele alır, birden fazla yere bağlılık gösteren göçmenlerin geride bıraktıkları derin duygusal anlamlar taşıyan memleketleriyle ve memleketlerini çağrıştıran her şeyle-evleriyle, doğayla, yaşanmışlıklarıyla-ilişkilerini analiz eder. Göçe zorlanan kişiler ve onların terk etmek zorunda kaldıkları memleket arasındaki duygusal, zamansal ve mekânsal etkileşim tarihsel, sosyolojik ve psikolojik boyutlarıyla ele alan şiirlerde değerlendirilir.

Baby-eating, eye-gouging, rape, torture, "people packing into trucks like pigs" fleeing in fear o... more Baby-eating, eye-gouging, rape, torture, "people packing into trucks like pigs" fleeing in fear of the
war – Sarah Kane's first breathtaking play Blasted has been one of the most noted cultural events since the 1990s. Although
Kane has shared that she wanted to attract attention to the war in Bosnia, to make people see the old woman from Srebrenica,
and hear her plea for help (Sierz, 2001, pp.100-101), the name of Bosnia is never mentioned in the play. The playwright's
intention to provoke reaction to the violence in the specific political context has not diminished the universality of her work.
The following study explores the affective circulations within the fictional world of Blasted by analysing the Soldier's presence
in terms of emotions. It offers three readings of the Soldier’s brutal behaviour within the play and suggests that ‘confession’ is
of vital importance for the process of traumatic emotional and physical healing. The play is mainly approached in the context
of the works of the socio-political and socio-cultural affect theorists – Sara Ahmed and Margaret Wetherell as well as the
trauma theorist Cathy Caruth. The paper further offers a close reading of the complex affective circulations of emotions in the
play and analysis what affects do and how they move and act upon the characters. By contributing to the considerably new way
of analysing literature through affect theory, this work sheds light on the important role of emotions in war context.
KEYWORDS: Blasted, the Soldier, affects, hate, memories, testimonies, trauma

Surprisingly, there has been little interest in the strong influence the city of Dublin wields ov... more Surprisingly, there has been little interest in the strong influence the city of Dublin wields over the characters in James Joyce’s short story collection Dubliners. Until recently, scholars have rarely approached the city as the major cause for the indifference, misfortunes and paralysis haunting the characters. With the recent studies of affect theory it has become easier to view an inanimate source, such as a city, as the main reason behind particular actions, feelings and emotions. The considerably new theoretical framework of affect brings attention to organic and inorganic matter and explores the power of inanimate things to alter and shape the world. This paper applies Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A political Ecology of Things and Kathleen Stewart’s Ordinary Affects to James Joyce’s Dubliners and discusses Dublin as a force that plays a significant role in the development of Dubliners’ perceptions, in the ways they feel and deal with mundane matters. I do not only approach Dublin as an assemblage of different operators such as the urban landscape, the houses, the trains, the trams, the shades and colours of despair and many others, but as an assemblage with its own agency that leads to negative influence. The reasons behind the negative impact are traced mainly in Irish history: in the traumatic experiences of British colonialism, in the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution and in the disaster of the Great Irish Potato Famine. The paper contributes to the analytical works of Joycean scholars by offering a new way to approach the short story collection: a way that gives voice to, what Bennett calls, a ‘thing-power’

CROWN OF DONKEY THISTLES – A STORY ABOUT PAIN AND FORGIVENESS: THEMATIC AND STYLISTIC ANALYSIS, 2024

Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022

Considered to be affective mediums exercising powers changing the humoral balances of bodies, the... more Considered to be affective mediums exercising powers changing the humoral balances of bodies, theatre plays have been severely attacked on the grounds that they provoke strong emotions by early modern critics such as Stephen Gosson and Philip Stubbes in the Shakespearean period. According to Stephen Gosson, for instance, due to their emotional and physiological impact theatre performances weakened and undermined audiences' capacities to reason and judge; and thus, needed to be prohibited altogether. This study provides a detailed analysis of the Hecuba speech (II, ii) in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Through the Player's and Hamlet's reactions to the Hecuba-speech, it will discuss the characters' attitudes towards theatre and comment on early modern theatre debates. The study will further discuss William Shakespeare's stand on the affective potential of theatre in times when theatre plays have been considered contagious and altering the balance between minds, passions and bodies.

Ezikov Svyat volume 19 issue 3, 2021