ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
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description: ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies examines how literary, theatrical and cultural practices relate to everyday life, history, structures of power, affect, ideology, economy, politics, knowledge, technology, and the environment. ISSN: 2822-3950
publisher: Burak Raşit Oçak
language: en
publication name: ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
issn: 2822-3950
items: Narrative for the Women of the Women A Multicontextual Interpretation of Sisterhood in Christina Rossetti’s Poem Goblin Market
items: The Evolution of the Theatre Play, Human to AI: The Case of AI: When a Robot Writes a Play (2021)
items: Review of the Book Bonecas de Ataúro
items: The Ethical Choices of Philosophers in Tom Stoppard’s Philosophical Plays
items: Brecht and the Unmensch: Armor for Protest in the 21st Century
items: A Portrait of Three Women Looking at War: The Poetry of Amelina, Szymborska and Akhmatova
items: In Search of Self (Mother) and The Other (Unborn/Dead Infant) in The Holocaust of War-A Study of Edward Bond’s War Plays in Light of Levinasian Ethics
items: (Re)Tracing the Partitioned Histories: Exploring Memory, Identity and Body Politics in Select Partition Literature
items: The Phylogenetics of Ancient Greek Tragedy Under the Causality of Fate in Primitive Thinking: From the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology
items: Interrogating National Sentimentality: Disruptive Performances and Alternative Affects in A Streetcar Named Desire
items: Kire, Easterine. When The River Sleeps. Paperback New Delhi: Zubaan Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2014. ISBN: 9789383074891 PP. 244., Rs 350
items: Gulzar. Footprints on Zero Line. Harper Perennial, 2017. ISBN-10 9353022932 ISBN-13 978-9353022938 PP. 216., $10.00
items: Fosudo, Sola. The Artist As A Dreamer and A Realist: Re-Assessing Bode Osanyin’s Writer’s Resort, Lagos: Bode Osanyin Foundation, 2008. PP. 26
items: Halk Hikâyesi ve Tragedya Türlerinde Sahne Dışından Gelen Haberin Öyküye Etkisi[The Effect of Off-Stage Narratives on the Plot in Folk Tale and Tragedy Genres]
items: Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rollerinin Kurgusallığının Stage Beauty Filmi Üzerinden Değerlendirilmesi[Evaluation of the Fictiveness of Societal Gender Roles through Stage Beauty Movie]
items: Kökler Üzerine Bir Performans Denemesi[An Experimental Performance about the Origins: Before I]
items: Aesthetics of Cultures: The Yoruba Culture in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are Not to Blame[Kültürlerin Estetiği: Ola Rotimi’nin The Gods Are Not to Blame’inde Yoruba Kültürü]
items: The Impact of the Turkish Culture on Kateb Yacine’s La poudre d’intelligence, The Intelligence Powder (1959)
items: Jim Corbett, the Hunter-conservationist: Hunter or Conservationist?[Avcı-Çevreci Jim Corbett: Avcı mı, Çevreci mı?]
items: Navigating Ethno-Religious Postnormality in Nigeria: Readings in Ahmed Yerima’s Pari[Nijerya’daki Etno-Dini Postnormallikte Gezinmek: Ahmed Yerima’nın Pari’sinde Okumalar]
items: Theatre Anthropology: A Dialogue with Eugenio Barba[Tiyatro Antropolojisi: Eugenio Barba ile Bir Diyalog
items: Rural Crime and Police Reforms: A Study of Christie’s Murder Mysteries[Kırsal Suçlar ve Polis Reformları: Christie’nin Cinayet Esrarları Üzerine Bir İnceleme]
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items: Memory storytelling: structural aspects in O drible[Hatıra Anlatıcılığı: O drible’de Yapısal Yönler
items: https://etkijournal.com/etki/en/article/view/7
items: A Panorama Of Victorian Society Through Dickensian Minor Characters: Bleak House [Dickens’in Yan Karakterleri Aracılığıyla Viktorya Toplumunun Bir Panaroması: Kasvetli Ev]
items: Tracing Matrilineality in Alice Walker’s Meridian and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day[Alice Walker’ın Meridian’ı ile Gloria Naylor’un Mama Day’inde Anaerkilliğin İzini Sürmek]
items: Time and Space of Homesickness: Nâzım Hikmet’s Homesickness as a Chronotope[Sıla Özleminin Zamanı ve Mekânı: Bir Kronotop Olarak Nâzım Hikmet’in Sıla Özlemi]

Narrative for the Women of the Women A Multicontextual Interpretation of Sisterhood in Christina Rossetti’s Poem Goblin Market
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description: Christina Rossetti’s allegorical poem “Goblin Market” is rich in motifs, metaphors, symbols and themes which can be interpreted through multicontextual perspectives. Although much of the significance of the sisterhood presented in the poem hinges on reception theory, some parts of these nuanced interpretations are a result of Rossetti’s deliberate criticism of Victorian social constructs that dictated the identity, position and mobility of women as passive participants in the activity of the phallogocentric society. Rossetti weaponises the poem to culminate the concepts of female solidarity, women’s emancipation, and body autonomy by subverting gender roles and resisting against patriarchal norms of the nineteenth century. The unique representation of the sisterly bond and female friendship is both a reflection of Rossetti’s subjective experiences and objective understanding of the sociology of her times. Therefore, the poem not only signifies the enduring legacy of Rossetti’s literary contribution in promoting the arguments of radical feminism, but it also functions as a dialectic of the historical progression of gender politics. She has not only questioned the societal injustices done to women’s economic freedom, but has also denounced the financial deprivation coerced upon them. Rossetti subtly criticises the underlying concepts of male chauvinism and gender inequality that the society presents through the institution of religion, so that these regulations cannot be easily disobeyed. Besides specifying these obvious flaws of religion and society, she also suggests the possible procedures for resolving these flaws by narrativising multiple counter-discourses in the poem. A postmodern reading of “Goblin Market” unfolds the fundamentals of queer theory present in the narrative, which become instrumental in portraying the liberation of the sisters. The portrayal of sickness, survival, and differently abled bodies in the poem can be commented upon from the perspective…
subject: Articles
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subject: Christina Rossetti
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subject: Laura
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subject: Lizzie
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subject: women
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subject: Victorian
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creator: Moumita Bhattacharjee
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-25
publication date: 2025-12-25
starting page: 41
ending page: 54

The Evolution of the Theatre Play, Human to AI: The Case of AI: When a Robot Writes a Play (2021)
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description: AI: When a Robot Writes a Play (Když Robot Píše Hru) (2021) is a contemporary attempt to write an AI-generated play in Prague, Czechia, directed by Daniel Hrbek. The contemporary play is developed and put on stage by a versatile team from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Charles University, and Švanda Theatre, like a multifaceted collaboration. In detail, it is a 60-minute play streamed on the website. It is performed in Czech, and it can also be followed by simultaneous English subtitles. This article asks how the understanding of contemporary theatre is affected by AI technologies and explores the ongoing evolution from human to AI. Thus, is it possible for AI to create a machine-generated playwright, an AI form of Shakespeare, within both the limitations and advantages of artificial intelligence? Lastly, as this paper examines, will there be an AI-generated concept of art that can be possible and valuable?
subject: Articles
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subject: Artifical intelligence
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subject: contemporary theatre productions
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subject: the evolution of theatre plays
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subject: technology and theatre
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creator: Sinem Çapar İleri
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date: 2025-12-25
publication date: 2025-12-25
starting page: 29
ending page: 40

Review of the Book Bonecas de Ataúro
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description: The book Bonecas de Ataúro1 (Ba 2010) was the result of a project involving 30 female inhabitants of the island of Ataúro, East Timor, to produce dolls and other figures in fabrics typical of the country, such as tais (Instituto 2010). Piera Zuercher2 , a Swiss artist who has lived in France, Italy and East Timor, but now lives in Portugal (Roque, 2024), realised that the island’s inhabitants already had cutting and sewing skills and so decided to combine the tradition of the craft to create something typical of the place (Esectv 2009).
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subject: Bonecas de Ataúro
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creator: Camila Concato
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date: 2025-12-25
publication date: 2025-12-25
starting page: 21
ending page: 28

The Ethical Choices of Philosophers in Tom Stoppard’s Philosophical Plays
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description: This article examines Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers (1972) and Professional Foul (1977) as complementary investigations into the limits and possibilities of philosophical ethics in modern dramatic form. Through the analytic lens of ethical context, the study argues that Jumpers dramatizes the collapse of moral authority in a culture dominated by opportunism and relativism, where ethical principles lose traction amid performative reasoning and institutional incoherence. Professional Foul, by contrast, relocates philosophical inquiry within a politically volatile landscape, foregrounding how ethical coherence must be forged through situated decisions rather than safeguarded by theoretical consistency. Across both works, Stoppard stages ethical dilemmas, communicative breakdowns, circular dramatic structures, and strategically motivated violations of norms to interrogate the unstable boundary between moral reasoning and real-world action. These plays together suggest that ethical agency is neither guaranteed nor fixed, but continually shaped, tested, and transformed at the shifting intersection of thought and practice.
subject: Articles
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subject: Tom Stoppard,
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subject: philosophical drama
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subject: ethics
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subject: jumpers
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subject: Professional Foul
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subject: moral agent
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creator: Min Chen
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date: 2025-12-25
publication date: 2025-12-25
starting page: 1
ending page: 20

Brecht and the Unmensch: Armor for Protest in the 21st Century
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description: In this article, the author posits the epic theater of Bertolt Brecht as a model for narrative resistance to posthumanist theory. The author illustrates how posthumanist theory can and does collude with elite interests by distracting the democratic populace from true political engagement through the dual attractors of anxiety/ elation over machine autonomy and the subconscious fear of political responsibility. The author then illustrates how Brecht’s subversion of the traditional epic genre served his project of challenging disempowering cultural narratives, such as those advanced by Nazi authorities, and raised up the figure of Walter Benjamin’s Unmensch, whose traits of resilience and cunning serve as armor in carrying out their public resistance of oppressive forces both outside and within themself. Building on Brecht’s theoretical writing, the author asserts that AI technology is simply the newest god in a long tradition of subjugating the masses through intimidation in the face of an all-powerful force. The author argues that the cultural challenge more pressing than humans coming to terms with machine autonomy is humans coming to terms with their own autonomy. The author concludes with an example of the application of Brechtian theatrical techniques in the creation of an activist street theatre piece on coal and climate change, illustrating how today’s activist theatre can borrow from and advance Brecht’s theory and practices. Bu makalede yazar, Bertolt Brecht'in epik tiyatrosunu posthümanist teoriye karşı anlatısal direniş için bir model olarak ortaya koymaktadır. Yazar, posthümanist teorinin, makine özerkliği kaygısı/heyecanı ve bilinçaltındaki siyasi sorumluluk korkusu gibi ikili çekiciler aracılığıyla demokratik halkın dikkatini gerçek siyasi angajmandan uzaklaştırarak elit çıkarlarla nasıl işbirliği yapabileceğini ve yaptığını göstermektedir. Yazar daha sonra Brecht'in geleneksel destan türünü altüst etmesinin, Nazi yetkilileri tarafından ileri sürülenler…
subject: Articles
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subject: Posthuman
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subject: Brecht
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subject: AI
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subject: Activism
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subject: Climate Change
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creator: Sarah Moon
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-06-01
publication date: 2025-06-01
starting page: 24
ending page: 42

A Portrait of Three Women Looking at War: The Poetry of Amelina, Szymborska and Akhmatova
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description: This essay articulates how three poets—Amelina, Szymborska, and Akhmatova—navigate the complexities of war and history through their unique approaches to language and poetry. Whether through Amelina’s focus on memory, Szymborska’s ironic ease, or Akhmatova’s personal engagement with history, each poet transforms their lived experience into art that resists tyranny and gives voice to the silenced. Their work is a testament to the power of poetry to reclaim history, reflect on human suffering, and provide a form of resistance to tyranny and violence. Bu makale, üç şairin -Amelina, Szymborska ve Akhmatova- savaş ve tarihin karmaşıklığını dil ve şiire getirdikleri benzersiz yaklaşımlarla nasıl ele aldıklarını ortaya koyuyor. İster Amelina'nın hafızaya odaklanması, ister Szymborska'nın ironik rahatlığı, isterse Akhmatova'nın tarihle kişisel ilişkisi yoluyla olsun, her şair yaşadığı deneyimi zulme direnen ve susturulanlara ses veren bir sanata dönüştürüyor. Bu şairlerin eserleri, şiirin tarihe sahip çıkma, insanların çektiği acılar üzerine düşünme ve zulüm ve şiddete karşı bir direniş biçimi sağlama gücünün bir kanıtıdır.
subject: Articles
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subject: War
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subject: tranny
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subject: history
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subject: female literature
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subject: Eastern European literature
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creator: Murali Malini
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date: 2025-06-01
publication date: 2025-06-01
starting page: 15
ending page: 23

In Search of Self (Mother) and The Other (Unborn/Dead Infant) in The Holocaust of War-A Study of Edward Bond’s War Plays in Light of Levinasian Ethics
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description: In this paper I have tried to trace a significant connection between Edward Bond and Emmanuel Levinas in The War Plays, a trilogy written by Bond in the year 1985, through the ethical encounter of the self or the mother and the other or the dead/unborn child. Bond is revolutionary in his attempt to discover and nourish the helpless other in the face of Nazi genocide as a medium of generating ethical acts of justice or humanity in a world of unbearable suffering and death. Along with “Introduction” and “Conclusion”, this paper has been divided into three sections namely, “From Responsibility to Trauma: Rethinking the Human Condition in Bond’s War Trilogy,” “Face-toface encounter between the Self and the Other,” and “Examining the ‘radical innocence’ of Bond from the perspective of the ‘senseless kindness’ of Levinas.” This article attempts to hint at the idea that Bond’s trilogy is essentially a response to the Nazi atrocities from the perspective of humanitarian justice. The section succeeding “Introduction” deals with the sense of guilt and shock that the self undergoes after witnessing the painful death of the other and faces the trauma of becoming ‘always-already responsible’ to the other even before being fully aware of the existence of the other. The section titled “Face-to-face encounter between the Self and the Other” seeks to explore the reason behind Bond’s depiction of non-human images to indicate the face of the dead child which despite being absent continues to govern the whole existence of the self. The section prior to “Conclusion” deals with the question of justice in the ethical encounter between the mother and her dead child in the world of Nazi violence by bringing to the fore the importance of irrational, ethical acts to defy the despotic regime with the compassionate touch of humanity. Bu makalede, Edward Bond'un 1985 yılında yazdığı üçleme The War Plays’de, benlik ya da anne ile öteki ya da ölü/doğmamış çocuk arasındaki etik karşılaşma aracılığı…
subject: Articles
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subject: Dead child
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subject: Emmanuel Levinas
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subject: ethical encounter
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subject: humanity
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subject: mother
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creator: Ananya Mukhopadhyay
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date: 2025-06-01
publication date: 2025-06-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 14

(Re)Tracing the Partitioned Histories: Exploring Memory, Identity and Body Politics in Select Partition Literature
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description: The Partition of India in 1947 stands as a momentous juncture in South Asian history, marked by displacement, pervasive violence, and trauma. This article explores Geetanjali Shree’s novel Tomb of Sand and What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin, within the broader context of Partition literature and feminist discourse. Both the novels offer a nuanced and multilayered portrayal of gender dynamics in the aftermath of Partition, foregrounding the agency and resilience of their female protagonists. The narrative techniques employed—characterised by metafictional elements, nonlinear structure and vivid characterisations—provide fertile ground for an exploration of the complexities of memory, identity, and trauma. This article examines how these authors navigate the intersection of gender, nationhood and memory paying particular attention to the ways in which the female body becomes site of contestation and resistance in the aftermath of communal violence. By juxtaposing these texts, it aims to contribute to an in-depth comprehension of the complexities of gender, memory, and power-dynamics in the context of historical trauma. 1947’de Hindistan'ın bölünmesi, Güney Asya tarihinde yerinden edilme, yaygın şiddet ve travmanın damgasını vurduğu önemli bir dönüm noktasıdır. Bu makale Geetanjali Shree’nin Kumdan Mezar adlı romanını ve Shauna Singh Baldwin’in What the Body Remembers adlı romanını Bölünme edebiyatı ve feminist söylem bağlamında incelemektedir. Her iki roman da Bölünme sonrasında toplumsal cinsiyet dinamiklerinin incelikli ve çok katmanlı bir tasvirini sunmakta, kadın kahramanlarının eylemliliğini ve direncini ön plana çıkarmaktadır. Kullanılan anlatı teknikleri -üstkurmaca unsurlar, doğrusal olmayan yapı ve canlı karakterizasyonlarla karakterize edilen- hafıza, kimlik ve travmanın karmaşıklıklarının araştırılması için verimli bir zemin sağlar. Bu makale, bu yazarların toplumsal cinsiyet, ulus ve hafızanın kesiştiği noktalarda nasıl gezindiklerini, toplums…
subject: Articles
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subject: Partition
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subject: memory
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subject: trauma
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subject: gendered identity
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subject: nationhood
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creator: Sreya Mukherjee
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date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 48
ending page: 62

The Phylogenetics of Ancient Greek Tragedy Under the Causality of Fate in Primitive Thinking: From the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology
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description: The primitive thinking of ancient Greece contains the simple concept of causality. From the perspective of cultural anthropology, the principle of the origin of magic, the relationship between myth and magic, the special plant images, and the evolution of primitive thinking all involve the natural order, the producing logic of causal theory of fate and the anthropological background. The causal order runs through the process from magic to ritual and then evolved into the origin of ancient Greek tragedy. Therefore, starting from the source of motivation, imitative elements, action meanings, and phylogenetic paths of ancient Greek tragedy and ritual, we can clearly trace the phylogenetic approach of tragedy under the causal order. The successive theory of tragedy also provides a strong academic support for the theory of causal fate, and verifies the phylogenetic logic of tragedy. Under the guidance of such thinking, by researching comprehensively the unique anthropological imagery that repeatedly appears in the tragic texts of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and contrasting the causal view of fate in tragedy, we can further clarify the imprint and changes about it in the succession of tragedy, and touch on the reflection about the connection of phylogenetics, literary projection and the religious themes. Antik Yunan’ın ilkel düşüncesi basit bir nedensellik kavramı içerir. Kültürel antropoloji perspektifinden bakıldığında, büyünün kökeni ilkesi, mit ve büyü arasındaki ilişki, özel bitki imgeleri ve ilkel düşüncenin evrimi doğal düzeni, nedensel kader teorisinin üretici mantığını ve antropolojik arka planı içerir. Nedensel düzen, büyüden ritüele uzanan süreç boyunca işlemekte ve daha sonra antik Yunan tragedyasının kökenine evrilmektedir. Dolayısıyla, Antik Yunan tragedyası ve ritüelinin motivasyon kaynağı, taklit unsurları, eylem anlamları ve filogenetik yollarından yola çıkarak, tragedyanın filogenetik yaklaşımını nedensel düzen altında net bir şekilde izleyebilir…
subject: Articles
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subject: Primitive thinking
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subject: causal theory of fate
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subject: ancient Greek tragedy
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subject: phylogenetics
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subject: cultural anthopology
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creator: Zhu Xuanyi
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 18
ending page: 47

Interrogating National Sentimentality: Disruptive Performances and Alternative Affects in A Streetcar Named Desire
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description: This article explores the affective politics and identity performance in Tennessee Williams’s drama A Streetcar Named Desire, especially how the drama represents nonconformist characters’ disruptive performances of gender, sexuality and affects to interrogate the national sentimentality of suburban happiness. Since the Second World War, American government has promoted the successful construction of a nuclear family in a suburban home as the essential method to obtain personal happiness, legitimate citizenship, and national belonging. Nevertheless, the suburban happiness has long been a fantasy exclusive to the white, middle-class family featured with conventional gender roles and patriarchal power relations. In Streetcar, Williams unsettles the national idealization of domesticated happiness, citizenship and belonging by representing the living predicament of working-class housewives, homeless Southern belle, and gay men, especially their desperate negotiation with the male-dominated structure of gender and power for love, safety, and stability. By staging Stella’s femininity of domestication and confinement, Blanche’s disruptive performances as Southern belle and femme fatale, and nonconformists’ excessiveness in affects and imaginations, Streetcar creates an alternative affective sphere of confrontation and negotiation. In this sphere, Williams not merely reveals the affective, corporeal and psychological violence that nonconformists might encounter in a male-dominated, white heteronormative culture, but more importantly, explores the potential of nonconformists in enacting the complexity of human desire and subjectivity as well as in performing alternative modalities of feeling, being and becoming. Bu makale Tennessee Williams’ın A Streetcar Named Desire (Arzu Tramvayı) adlı dramasındaki duygusal politikaları ve kimlik performanslarını, özellikle de dramanın banliyö mutluluğunun ulusal duygusallığını sorgulamak için konformist olmayan karakterlerin toplumsal cin…
subject: Articles
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subject: National sentimentality
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subject: domesticated citizenship
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subject: A Streetcar Named Desire
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subject: affective politics
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subject: identity performance
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creator: Ranran Zhang
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date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 17

Kire, Easterine. When The River Sleeps. Paperback New Delhi: Zubaan Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2014. ISBN: 9789383074891 PP. 244., Rs 350
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description: When the River Sleeps is a highly captivating tale that adeptly portrays an intimate perspective of the Naga world. Through Kire's skillful portrayal, readers are introduced to various facets of Naga life and culture. The narrative revolves around the protagonist, Vilie, and chronicles his quest toward the sleeping river in order to extract an enigmatic heart stone from its core. The book furthermore covers the protagonist's expedition and endeavour to safeguard the heart stone. Kire's adept utilization of language and inventive narrative techniques effectively captivate readers, as her words shed light on significant realities such as societal challenges, cultural stigmas, traditional belief systems, and the indigenous medicinal practices of the lesser-known Tenimiya Naga tribe. In this regard, the book explored the Naga region a bit. The novel effectively reflects an “intense sense of awareness of the cultural loss and recovery” (Misra xi).
subject: Articles
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creator: Somenath Mahato
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date: 2024-06-01
publication date: 2024-06-01
starting page: 9
ending page: 11

Gulzar. Footprints on Zero Line. Harper Perennial, 2017. ISBN-10 9353022932 ISBN-13 978-9353022938 PP. 216., $10.00
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description: ‘Footprints on Zero Line’, published in 2017 by Harper Perennial, features fiction, non-fiction and poems on the subject by the writer. Gulzar doesn’t stop at the events of 1947 but explores how they continue to affect our lives, in the book. It is rendered in English by author and translator Rakhshanda Jalil
subject: Articles
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creator: Debapriya Sarkar
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date: 2024-06-01
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starting page: 6
ending page: 8

Fosudo, Sola. The Artist As A Dreamer and A Realist: Re-Assessing Bode Osanyin’s Writer’s Resort, Lagos: Bode Osanyin Foundation, 2008. PP. 26
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description: In the text of his lecture at the 2nd Bode Osanyin Memorial Lecture, held on Thursday, December 6, 2007, at the Arts Theatre, University of Lagos, Sola Fosudo offers a wealth of supplementary material that is intended to give the kind of knowledge required to comprehend what is, on the surface, familiar to most societies but is misunderstood: the roles and functions of artists in society. With his wealth of knowledge, his tenure as a senior lecturer at Lagos State University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Music, his involvement in the film industry, and his extensive experience, Fosudo offers a sympathetic and creative perspective on the arts and the many contentious views about artists.
subject: Articles
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creator: Shola Balogun
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date: 2024-06-01
publication date: 2024-06-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 5

Halk Hikâyesi ve Tragedya Türlerinde Sahne Dışından Gelen Haberin Öyküye Etkisi[The Effect of Off-Stage Narratives on the Plot in Folk Tale and Tragedy Genres]
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description: Tarihsel olarak farklı biçimlerde konumlanmasıyla birlikte konvansiyonel bir tiyatrodan bahsedildiğinde sahne, eksiksiz olarak tüm öğelerini bütünlüklü bir yapı içerisinde bulunduran ve hiçbir şeyin rastlantıya bırakılmadığı yapı olarak karşımıza çıkar. Seyircinin tüm eylemlerle karşı karşıya kaldığı sahne, kendi içinde gizli bir eylem akışı daha barındırır. Söz konusu bu akışın mekânı ise “sahne dışı” dır. Sahne dışı, seyirciden uzak ve sessiz bir alan olarak görülse de tüm öykünün akışını değiştirebilecek güce sahiptir. Bu çalışmada ise iki farklı tür olan halk hikâyesi ve tragedya türlerinde sahne dışından gelen bir haberin kahramanın hikâyesini dönüştürme biçimindeki benzerlikler incelenecektir. İlk olarak tragedyanın gösterime bağlı özellikleri ile halk hikâyesinin anlatıma bağlı özellikleri arasındaki farklar üzerinde durmak gereklidir. Ancak burada halk hikâyesinin ozanlar ve âşıklar tarafından seyirciye açık bir alanda performatik özelliklerle anlatılması, seyircinin zaman zaman anlatıya müdahale etmesi sonucu anlatının değiştirilişi, halk hikâyesinin de gösterime dayalı bir tür olarak tragedya ile benzerlik taşımasını sağlar. Sahne dışından gelen ancak sahneyi etkileyen bu kavram, Aristoteles tarafından “peripetia” kavramı ile açıklanmıştır. Türkçeye “baht dönüşü” olarak aktarılan kavram, öykü kahramanlarının eylemsel izleğinin, sahne dışından gelen bir haber ile değişmesini sağlar. Bu çalışmada tragedyada oldukça belirgin olan baht dönüşü sürecinin sözlü edebiyattaki karşılığı anlatının performansa dönüşümündeki işlevi üzerinden tartışılmaktadır. Halk hikâyesinin anlatım mekânı tragedyadan farklıdır. Hikâyelerin anlatıldığı mekânlar, anlatıcı ve dinleyicinin bir arada bulunduğu mekânlardır. Mekânda bulunan dinleyiciler anlatının akışını değiştirecek güce sahiptir. Bu nedenle bir öykü dinleme biçimi olarak görülse de anlatı mekânı sahneye; dinleyiciler de seyirciye dönüşebilirler. Anlatıcı, türe uygun bir sonla bitirecekken seyircilerin anlatıya dahil olmal…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: narrator
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subject: turn of fate
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subject: performance
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subject: offstage
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creator: Münevver Gülbağ
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date: 2023-12-01
publication date: 2023-12-01
starting page: 78
ending page: 87

Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rollerinin Kurgusallığının Stage Beauty Filmi Üzerinden Değerlendirilmesi[Evaluation of the Fictiveness of Societal Gender Roles through Stage Beauty Movie]
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description: Toplumsal cinsiyet çalışmalarının verdiği olanaklar, yeni okumaları gerekli kılmaktadır. Bu yeni okumalar farklı dönem ve kültürlerin yansımalarını gösteren sanat eserleri için de geçerlidir. Bu çalışmada, toplumsal olan ile biyolojik olan arasındaki kurgusallık farkı değerlendirilecek ve bir örnek olarak kadınların sahnedeki temsilini işleyen Stage Beauty filmi incelenecektir. Özellikle Elizabeth Dönemi Tiyatrosu’nda kadınların sahneye çıkma yasağı, sahnede kadın temsilinin erkekler tarafından gerçekleştirilmesi bu kurgusallık için iyi bir izlek ve örnek oluşturmaktadır. Sanatın, gerçek hayattan beslenerek araya aldığı bir yöntem olarak kurgusallık, toplumsal hayatta daha hayati sonuçlara neden olmaktadır. The opportunities provided by gender studies necessitate new readings. These new readings are also applicable to artworks that reflect different periods and cultures. In this study, the fictional difference between the social and the biological will be evaluated, and the film “Stage Beauty,” which explores the representation of women on stage, will be examined as an example. Particularly, the prohibition of women from appearing on stage in the Elizabethan era and the portrayal of women by men on stage provide a good basis and example for this fictionality. Fictionality, as a method that art employs by drawing from real life, leads to more vital consequences in social life.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Erdal Ozan Metin
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date: 2023-12-01
publication date: 2023-12-01
starting page: 66
ending page: 77

Kökler Üzerine Bir Performans Denemesi[An Experimental Performance about the Origins: Before I]
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description: Bu çalışmada, tiyatro yönetmeni ve teorisyeni Jerzy Grotowski’nin “Sen Birinin Oğlusun” makalesinden esinlenerek kurgulanmış, 2016-2017 ve 2017-2018 tiyatro sezonlarında Ankara’daki çeşitli sahnelerde gerçekleştirilmiş Ben’den Ev’vel performansının teorik ve pratik analizi yer almaktadır. Sözü edilen performansın temel ekseninde yıllardır aile içinde söylenegelen, kendimizden yaşça büyük aile bireylerine ait öykülerin, sonraki kuşaklara aktarımında tiyatro ve performansın bir araç olarak kullanılıp kullanılamayacağı düşüncesi yer almaktadır. Sahnede seyircinin salona alınıp yerleşmesini beklerken nostaljik bir dekor içindeki masada oturan dinleyicioyuncu masadaki saati kırk beş dakikaya ayarlayarak performansı başlatır. Daha önceden bilgilendirilmiş olan seyirciler gönüllülük esasına göre sahneye çıkıp içinde kendilerinin olmadığı, tamamen aile büyükleri tarafından kendilerine anlatılan kökenlerine ait aile öykülerinden birini sahnede onu dinlemekte olan ve performans boyunca hiç konuşmayan dinleyici-oyuncuya anlatır. Bu anlatımı aynı zamanda salondaki seyirciler de eş zamanlı olarak izlemektedir. Bu performans denemesi, varoluşu gereği gündelik gerçeklik ve kurmaca arasındaki bir eşikte yer alan tiyatrallik, seyir, rol, performans kavramlarının farklı kullanımları aracılığıyla sorgulandığı bir sahnelemedir. Sahne üzerinde, gündelik gerçeklik ve kurmaca arasındaki sınırın bir anlamda kendisine gönderme yapılarak netleştirildiği, öte yandan anlatıcının performansının geçmiş ve bellek aracılığıyla temsili bir nitelik kazanması ile bu sınırın yeniden bulanıklaştığı, geçişken bir deneyim alanı oluşması amaçlanır. “Nesilden nesile kültür aktarımı” üzerinden de biçimlenen bu çalışmada, tiyatro ve performans sanatının bir arada yer aldığı disiplinlerarası bir çalışmayı hedeflenmiştir. This study includes the theoretical and practical analysis of the Ben’den Ev’vel (Before I) performance, which was inspired by theater director and theorist Jerzy Grotowski's article “Tu es l…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: kökler
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subject: tiyatro
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subject: performans
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subject: tiyetrallik
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subject: performans sanatı
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creator: Gizem Gürer Arslan
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date: 2023-12-01
publication date: 2023-12-01
starting page: 48
ending page: 65

Aesthetics of Cultures: The Yoruba Culture in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are Not to Blame[Kültürlerin Estetiği: Ola Rotimi’nin The Gods Are Not to Blame’inde Yoruba Kültürü]
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description: In the face of world power tussle, many cultures today are endangered and threatened. As some have been widely encroached by foreign and imposing nations, some are on the track of extinction. Annexation ideologies and appropriation programs are developed by ambitious countries and under different shrouds to possess other national territories. A notable culprit is the western cultural hegemony and selfsought imperialism which is otherwise sugar-coated as civilization. While many independent nations have assimilated foreign cultures in guises of education, migration, and foreign interventions, many nations still nurse the brunt of colonialism. Unfortunately, cultural etiolation continues today with many unsuspecting nations falling victims. The causations for the decline in the traditional gamut of these societies are often hinged upon various instances. A notable mention is the lost Harappan civilization. Once one of the oldest civilisations and often classified with the Mesopotamian, Chinese and Egyptian civilization, the Harappan civilisation has now plunged into a site of research and excavational discoveries. Also, Ajawa, a formal language of the people of Bauchi state in Nigeria has become extinct. Thus, there is no gainsaying that these extinction of cultural values and traditions portend detrimental consequences for our futures than benefits. This is the more reason efforts must be made towards documentation in as many forms as possible. Such preservation mission could help to save cultural values like that of the Yoruba people of western Nigeria and others which may be endangered soon. Playwriting is a way to keep the flag hoisted. Writers such as Ola Rotimi, Wole Soyinka, Femi Osofisan, Ahmed Yerima, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ama Ata Aidoo, Efua T. Sutherland, Tawfiq al-Hakim, among many others must be reckoned with for their efforts on African literature. These literary works are archival of African cultures. It is in this light that this paper considers the Yorub…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: aesthetics
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subject: culture
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subject: interculturalism
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subject: music
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subject: oral tradition
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subject: Yoruba culture
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creator: Damilare Ogunmekan
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date: 2023-12-01
publication date: 2023-12-01
starting page: 21
ending page: 47

The Impact of the Turkish Culture on Kateb Yacine’s La poudre d’intelligence, The Intelligence Powder (1959)
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description: Kateb Yacine’s theater is a product of the complex interplay between many literary traditions. While previous critical studies have focused on the impact of Berber, Arab, and French cultures, the influence of Ottoman culture in his theater remains totally neglected. This analysis aims to explore the presence of Turkish cultural elements within the play, which fills an important gap in scholarly research. A comprehensive textual analysis of Kateb Yacine’s play, The Intelligence Powder (1959), uncovers cultural interaction at multiple levels, encompassing the play’s characters and themes. While earlier sources do not directly discuss the playwright’s fascination with Ottoman culture and drama, this study of the play aims to examine the diverse influences that have contributed to its integration into the narrative. Through an exploration of these factors, the analysis seeks to reveal the importance of this cultural infusion and its possible impact on revitalizing Kateb Yacine’s selected dramatic work.
subject: Articles
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subject: Intelligence Powder
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subject: Turkish Influence
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subject: social, historical and political impacts
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creator: Nadia Naar Gada
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date: 2023-12-01
publication date: 2023-12-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 20

Jim Corbett, the Hunter-conservationist: Hunter or Conservationist?[Avcı-Çevreci Jim Corbett: Avcı mı, Çevreci mı?]
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description: Jim Corbett's hunting narratives have always enthralled lovers of the wild. His works portray a bygone era of pristine natural beauty and abundance of fauna in a country where today many of the species have gone extinct or are on the verge of extinction. The works of Jim Corbett, while recording the serenity of Indian jungles and the majesty of its fauna, have also presented through his brilliant narratorial prowess the classic struggle between man and nature. The author of this paper intends to see past Jim Corbett's hunting narratives and analyse his claims to be a hunter-conservationist. The author of this paper seeks to probe into the psychology of the White Sadhu to see what motivated him to become a hunter: Was it poverty? The abundance of game in the area? A tradition of big-game hunting in the family? A desire to emulate the social class that extolled the virtue of hunting? A desire to belong? Or his perception of nature as subservient to human needs? The author intends to analyse the words and acts that may appear humanitarian in essence, but carry within them seeds of injustice. The various works of Jim Corbett are unapologetic, and since they are so carefully crafted, an average reader may very well get enamoured with Jim Corbett, without paying heed to the environmental injustice. The author of this paper has aimed at finding the chinks in the armour of Jim Corbett’s environmentalism and uncovering the mind of a hunter. Jim Corbett’in avcılık anlatıları vahşi doğa severleri her zaman büyülemiştir. Eserleri, bugün birçok türün neslinin tükendiği ya da tükenmek üzere olduğu bir ülkede, bozulmamış doğal güzelliklerin ve hayvan türünün bol olduğu geçmiş bir dönemi tasvir ediyor. Jim Corbett'in çalışmaları, Hint ormanlarının dinginliğini ve faunasının görkemini kağıda dökerken, aynı zamanda insan ve doğa arasındaki klasik mücadeleyi de parlak anlatım becerisiyle ortaya koymaktadır. Makale yazarı, Jim Corbett’in avcılık anlatılarının ötesini görmeyi ve onun av…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: hunting
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subject: environmentalism
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subject: nature
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subject: man-eater
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subject: conservation
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subject: empire
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creator: Kaustav Chanda
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2023-06-01
publication date: 2023-06-01
starting page: 21
ending page: 36

Navigating Ethno-Religious Postnormality in Nigeria: Readings in Ahmed Yerima’s Pari[Nijerya’daki Etno-Dini Postnormallikte Gezinmek: Ahmed Yerima’nın Pari’sinde Okumalar]
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description: Drama has contributed a great deal to the development of the entity called Nigeria. Playwrights in Nigeria have used the dramatic medium to navigate and interrogate issues concerning family, economy, culture, politics, and religion little wonder why the development of any society can be traced to the dramatic contents in distinct periods of their existence. Ahmed Yerima has carved a niche for himself in the Nigerian theatre space. Having written several plays that mirror major tribes of the country, he sells himself out again as a true Nigerian in Pari; a reaction to the recent political, economic, and philosophical anomalies in Nigeria predicated upon ethnicity and religion which this paper reads from the lenses of postnormality. As propounded by Ziauddin Sadar, the hydraheaded concept of postnormality is couched around three major strands: Chaos, Contradictions, and Complexities, which can be seen in every facet of the Nigerian society. This paper brings the theory of postnormality to bear in the ethno-religious interrogation of Pari using the content analysis approach. This paper observes that the complex, contradictory and chaotic face of Nigerian democracy, is largely predicated upon the mutating ethno-religious ideologies introduced by ‘ethno-religious entrepreneurs’ as a strategy to negotiate political power in the nation. It concludes that more than anything else in the socio-political parlance of the nation, Nigerians must jettison ethnicity and religion as yardstick for leadership assessment and focus on ability, efficiency and capacity of politicians if we must make anything out of our latent democracy. Drama, Nijerya denen teşekkülün gelişimine büyük bir katkıda bulunmuştur. Nijerya’daki oyun yazarları: aile, ekonomi, kültür, siyaset ve dinle ilgili konuları ele almak ve sorgulamak için tiyatroyu araç olarak kullanmışlardır. Herhangi bir toplumun gelişiminin, varoluşlarının farklı dönemlerinde dramatik içeriklerle izlenebilmesine şaşmamak gerekir. Ahmed …
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: postnormality
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subject: chaos
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subject: complexity
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subject: contradictions
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subject: Ziauddin Sadar
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subject: Pari
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subject: Ethno-religious
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subject: Politics
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subject: Nigeria
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creator: Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo
creator: Divine Sheriff Uchenna Joe
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2023-06-01
publication date: 2023-06-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 20

Theatre Anthropology: A Dialogue with Eugenio Barba[Tiyatro Antropolojisi: Eugenio Barba ile Bir Diyalog
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description: This paper is a modest attempt of debating with some fundamental premises of Eugenio Barba that he placed in his much applauded publication around the globe, jointly written with Nicola Savarese. Published in 1991, the book had created a cult-like influence across the disciplines, mostly among the practitioners and experts of performing art. Though the Italian authors have urged their readers not to confuse this work and their activities as a branch of anthropology, the premises contained significant elements of serious academic concerns – culture, history, bodies, performances and a few more. Considering the huge readership this book achieved, with a number of translations in different languages, this article concerned with its conceptualization of a few fundamental issues and placed them in the complex plane of colonialism and transformative forces in cultural forms and expressions. This paper does not, by any means, engage with the ISTA activities, instead it explores possibilities of a dialogue with some propositions that otherwise could have read as static, ahistorical, apolitical and inclined with more dogmatic sense of what is called ‘aesthetics’. Bu makale, Eugenio Barba’nın Nicola Savarese ile birlikte kaleme aldığı ve dünya çapında büyük beğeni toplayan yayınında yer verdiği bazı temel önermeleri tartışmaya açmaya yönelik mütevazı bir girişimdir. 1991 yılında yayınlanan kitap, disiplinler arasında, özellikle de sahne sanatları uygulayıcıları ve uzmanları arasında kült benzeri bir etki yaratmıştır. Her ne kadar İtalyan yazarlar okuyucularını bu çalışmayı ve faaliyetlerini antropolojinin bir dalı olarak görmemeye yönlendirdilerse de, kitapta kültür, tarih, topluluklar, performanslar gibi ciddi akademik kaygıların önemli unsurları yer alıyordu. Bu kitabın farklı dillere yapılan çok sayıda çevirisiyle ulaştığı geniş okuyucu kitlesi göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, bu makale kitabın birkaç temel meseleyi kavramsallaştırmasıyla ilgilenmekte ve bunları sömürgecilik …
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: theatre
  topic: keywords
subject: anthropology
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subject: body-techniques
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subject: colonialism
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subject: discourse
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creator: Manosh Chowdhury
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date: 2022-12-01
publication date: 2022-12-01
starting page: 17
ending page: 27

Rural Crime and Police Reforms: A Study of Christie’s Murder Mysteries[Kırsal Suçlar ve Polis Reformları: Christie’nin Cinayet Esrarları Üzerine Bir İnceleme]
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description: Agatha Christie breaks conceptual ideologies that country houses witness a fewer number of crimes compared to towns. With rapid industrialization and an economic boom in the nineteenth century, Britain witnessed a social transition that widened the income disparity between classes. The country recorded a substantial increase in illegal activities in the post-industrial era. To curb criminal activities, the British authorities took measures, including expanding the network of security agencies and reforms in the police system. Besides, Britain introduced the policy of criminal records maintenance for the territorial understanding of criminal offences. Christie has not explicitly described these policies and reforms in her novels, but the plot structure, the location of a crime, and the proactive approach of police detectives indicate the blending of reality with fiction. Agatha Christie, taşra evlerinin kasabalara kıyasla daha az sayıda suça tanıklık ettiği yönündeki kavramsal ideolojileri yıkıyor. On dokuzuncu yüzyılda hızlı sanayileşme ve ekonomik patlamayla birlikte İngiltere, sınıflar arasındaki gelir eşitsizliğini derinleştiren bir toplumsal dönüşüme tanıklık etti. Ülke, sanayi sonrası dönemde yasadışı faaliyetlerde önemli bir artış kaydetmiştir. Suç faaliyetlerini engellemek için İngiliz yetkililer, güvenlik teşkilatları ağını genişletmek ve polis sisteminde reformlar yapmak gibi önlemler aldı. Ayrıca İngiltere, cezai suçların bölgesel olarak anlaşılması için adli sicil kayıtlarının tutulması politikasını uygulamaya koymuştur. Christie romanlarında bu politikaları ve reformları açıkça anlatmamıştır, ancak olay örgüsü yapısı, suçun işlendiği yer ve polis dedektiflerinin proaktif yaklaşımı gerçekliğin kurguyla harmanlandığını göstermektedir.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: urban crime
  topic: keywords
subject: rural crime
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subject: polica reforms
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subject: criminal records
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subject: police detectives
  topic: keywords
creator: Chetan Saini
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date: 2022-12-01
publication date: 2022-12-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 16

https://etkijournal.com/etki/en/article/view/11
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title: Manfredi, Camille. Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art. Palgrave, 2019. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies series edited by Robert T. Tally Jr. ISBN 978-3-030-18759-0 e-ISBN 978-3-030-18760-6 PP. 229 $79.68
description: “Scotland could be a growing, making, building, doing and living country, not just a shopping, drinking, working, sleeping one” (10). The above quoted line makes a lot of sense when one is through the entire text which portrays Scotland from the perspectives of artists and writers. The rendition is surcharged with scholarly ideas and animated with pictures. Camille Manfredi delivers an erudite, yet, gripping insides with plethora of illustrations and instances.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: M. Anjum Khan
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-06-01
publication date: 2022-06-01
starting page: 19
ending page: 21

https://etkijournal.com/etki/en/article/view/10
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title: Performance, Politics, and Embodiment of New Media in Contemporary Student Resistance Movement in India[Hindistan’daki Çağdaş Öğrenci Direniş Hareketinde Yeni Medyanın Performansı, Siyaseti ve Somutlaşması]
description: The first decade of the twenty-first century is the one which is seen as a global explosion of revolt. Protest movements have accelerated across the globe and have synthesized new methods and techniques of Protesting. From Tahrir Square to the Occupy movement to Hong Kong Resistance movement, we have seen a wealth of performative tools of resistance. The students' protest movements have been a central part of these springs of protests. In contemporary India, we see a continuous eruption of student agitation, be it Occupy UGC, FTII, HCU, or JNU. Each of these movements has evolved new territories and gestures of performing protests. This paper aims to map and study the 'Event' of these performances, the emergence of contemporary aesthetics, and the role of new media in the broader framework of politics and performance. The case studies are historicized and analyzed through the logic of State, globalization, culture, affective embodied impacts, and new media theory in the case studies mentioned above. Yirmi birinci yüzyılın ilk on yılı, küresel bir isyan patlaması olarak görülür. Tepki hareketleri dünya genelinde hızlı bir şekilde artmış ve sentezleme yoluyla yeni Protesto yöntem ve teknikleri ortaya çıkarmıştır. Tahrir Meydanı’ndan, İşgal Et hareketi ile Hong Kong Direniş hareketine kadar çok sayıda fiili direniş aracı gördük. Öğrenci hareketleri, protestoları besleyen memba olagelmiştir. Günümüz Hindistan’ında ister UGC’yi İşgal Et, ister FTII, ister HCU ya da JNU olsun, öğrencilerden sürekli tepkisel patlamalar görülür. Saydığımız bu hareketlerin her biri protesto etme eyleminde yeni duruş ve alanlar ortaya koymuştur. Bu çalışma, bahsedilen bu protesto “Hadiseleri”ni; çağdaş estetiğin ortaya çıkışını ve siyaset ile tiyatro bakımından daha geniş bir çerçevede yeni medyanın rolünü saptamayı ve ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. Örnek olaylar; mantıksal durum, küreselleşme, kültür, duyusal somut etkiler ve yukarıda bahsedilen örnek vakalardaki yeni medya aracılığıyla tarihsel…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: culture
  topic: keywords
subject: resistance
  topic: keywords
subject: protest
  topic: keywords
subject: performance
  topic: keywords
subject: student movements
  topic: keywords
creator: Saumya Mani Tripathi
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date: 2022-06-01
publication date: 2022-06-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 18

Memory storytelling: structural aspects in O drible[Hatıra Anlatıcılığı: O drible’de Yapısal Yönler
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description: This work uses the stream of consciousness of narrators Murilo Neto and Murilo Filho, son and father, from O drible (2013), a novel written by Sérgio Rodrigues, in order to highlight the importance of storytelling in this text. The context of national soccer after the 1950s is the scenario where particular issues of the characters are addressed, as if they were in the middle of a match of this sport. The use of this collective game shows itself to be an opportunity to bring to light human dilemmas and feelings. There is also the use of a variety of truthful elements concerning the history of soccer allied to free literary creation, alternating aspects of reality and fiction. The narrative mirror in abyss makes explicit the degrees of similitude transposed to the sphere of orality. Faced with the concept of reminiscent memory, telling establishes parallels that provide a comparison with the tradition of African storytellers, more specifically from Angola, for the denomination of characteristic types of telling. Theoretical texts by Walter Benjamin (2012), referring to the figure of the narrator; Lucien Dallenbach (1977), referring to the concept of mise en abyme; Jeane Marie Gagnebin (2006), on the study of memory and Harry Garuba (2012), referring to the concept of animist realism, will be used as references. It is noticeable that in the narrative of O drible storyteller and text are hybrids, because both are endowed with makas and missossos that become a narrative voice, leading the reader through reminiscence, since rescue and revenge are the objectives sought by the characters. Bu makale, hikâye anlatıcılığının önemini vurgulamak üzere Sérgio Rodrigues’in O drible (2013) eserinin anlatıcıları baba ve oğul Murilo Neto ile Murilo Filho’nun bilinç akışını ele almaktadır. 1950ler sonrası futbol bağlamı; karakterlerin özel sorunlarının, adeta bir futbol maçının tam ortasındaymışlar gibi ele alındığı senaryoyu oluşturur. Bu kolektif oyunu kullanmak, insani ikilemleri v…
subject: Articles
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subject: O drible
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subject: storytelling
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subject: memory
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subject: animist realism
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subject: human dilemma
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creator: Pedro Penhoca da Silva
creator: Camila Concato
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2021-12-01
publication date: 2021-12-01
starting page: 69
ending page: 81

https://etkijournal.com/etki/en/article/view/7
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title: Memory and Power: Unreliable Narrator in Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma and Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine [Bellek ve Güç: Ma Jian’ın Beijing Coma’sı ile Mo Yan’ın The Republic of Wine’ında Güvenilmez Anlatıcı]
description: Emerging scholarly work has indicated that we live in times of the ‘surveillance state’. Such states control all aspects of life: from the food one eats to the ideas they express in everyday life. The chief concern regarding such surveillance is its attacks on individual bodies and ideas. Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma and Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine explore the impact of state imposition on individual psyche. As responses to the Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989), the texts explore how the body remembers the violent incursions committed against it. Individual memory is upheld against the collective. This paper explores how the narrators in the novels present their point of view through their unreliability. As rationality has been singularly claimed as a tool of the powerful, the only imaginable solution is to articulate individual memories through the tool of unreliability. By highlighting the collectiveness of any crime, the narrators articulate their trauma through their unreliability. The individual body is trampled upon by the combined forces of cultural norms and state control as the entire population is mobilised for slaughter under the guise of ensuring survival (Foucault 137). The unreliable narrators in the novels allegorise the consumption of memory and individuality by the bodypolitic due to internalisation of existing power structures. They highlight how establishing bodily control paired with sweeping claims to popular memory legitimises the state as the provider of all ‘good things.’ Playing of the themes of literal bodily hunger through food and bodily waste metaphors, the novels exhibit the yearning for a metaphorical hunger for knowledge and an open society. Devam eden bilimsel çalışmalar, son dönemlerde “gözetim altında” yaşadığımızı göstermiştir. Bu gözetim durumu, kişinin yediği yemekten günlük yaşamda ifade ettiği fikirlere kadar yaşamın tüm yönlerini kontrol eder. Bu tür gözetimle ilgili temel endişe, bireysel bedenlere ve fikirlere yönelik saldırılar…
subject: Articles
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subject: Unreliable Narrator
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subject: Historical Memory
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subject: Trauma
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subject: Amnesia
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subject: Public Discourse
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subject: Biopower
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creator: Dania Shaikh
creator: Annaashirvadita
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2021-12-01
publication date: 2021-12-01
starting page: 52
ending page: 68

A Panorama Of Victorian Society Through Dickensian Minor Characters: Bleak House [Dickens’in Yan Karakterleri Aracılığıyla Viktorya Toplumunun Bir Panaroması: Kasvetli Ev]
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description: This paper aims to show the use of social realism in Bleak House by Charles Dickens in terms of representing the Victorian sociocultural diversity, some corrupted sides of the Victorian community such as paralyzed law system, and bad conditions of the lower class. With this aim, the conditions which bring about realism will be discussed in the introduction. Introduction will be followed by the methodology of the study in which realism and social realism will be explained. Then, Bleak House will be examined with a focus on minor characters. Although minor characters in the novel are of great importance in terms of portraying the social events of their times, they are neglected most of the time by the critics. However, studying all the minor characters is beyond the scope of this paper as Dickens uses more than fifty minor characters in the novel. Thereupon, Mrs. Jellyby, Mr. Skimpole, Mr. George, Mr. and Mrs. Bagnet, and Mr. Turveydrop are chosen to reflect the Victorian sociocultural diversity in the novel. In terms of reflecting some corrupted sides of the Victorian community, especially law system and bad conditions of the lower class, Mr. Tulkinghorn, Mr. Gridley, Miss Flite and Mr. Krook, Jo and Jenny’s husband are chosen. The paper concludes that Bleak House provides an insight to the readers about reflecting a panorama of Victorian society through the lens of social realism. Bu çalışma Charles Dickens tarafından yazılan Kasvetli Ev adlı romanda sosyal realizmin Viktorya toplumunundaki sosyal çeşitliliği, paralize olmuş hukuk sistemi gibi çürümüş olan bazı kurumları ve alt sınıfın içinde bulunduğu kötü koşulları yansıtmada nasıl kullanıldığını göstermeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu sebeple, realizmi doğuran sebepler giriş bölümünde ele alınacaktır. Ardından, realizm ve sosyal realizm çalışmanın metodolojisi kısmında açıklanacaktır. Sonrasında, Kasvetli Ev romanı yan karakterler üzerine yoğunlaşılarak incelenecektir. Romandaki yan karakterler dönemlerine ait sosyal olayl…
subject: Articles
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subject: Charles Dickens
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subject: Bleak House
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subject: Social Realism
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creator: Sevcan Işık
creator: Rızkan Tok
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2021-12-01
publication date: 2021-12-01
starting page: 38
ending page: 51

Tracing Matrilineality in Alice Walker’s Meridian and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day[Alice Walker’ın Meridian’ı ile Gloria Naylor’un Mama Day’inde Anaerkilliğin İzini Sürmek]
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description: In the article “Tracing Matrilineality in Alice Walker’s Meridian and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day”, I will explore the Black Nationalist assumption that motherhood is the sole pillar of communal life, crucial to the physical and cultural survival of black communities through a consideration of Alice Walker’s Meridian (1976) and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day (1988). Notably, individuality and motherhood are locked in opposition in Black Nationalist discourse, as motherhood entailed a sacrifice of selfhood to a degree. Black Nationalists expected their mothers to place their needs behind those of everyone else. I want to examine the role that Meridian, Mrs. Hills, Cocoa and Miranda played as mothers in the cultural construction of their communities. I would like to examine the degree to which these maternal figures are depicted as cornerstones of black resistance and custodians of life-sustaining African American traditions, as well as how these novels position them as individuals. I will attempt to answer the question of how the marginalized flees from systems of subjugation and attempts to dissolve the strictures of white supremacist imperialist patriarchy. In addition, I would like to explore the alternative modes of being available to Meridian’s and Cocoa’s due to their non-communal or even anti-communal choices. Bu makale, Alice Walker’in Meridian (1976) ve Gloria Naylor’un Mama Day (1988) romanlarını göz önünde bulundurarak, Siyahi toplumlarda fiziksel ve kültürel açıdan hayati önem taşıyan anneliğin toplumsal yaşamın tek direği olduğuna dair Siyahi Milliyetçi varsayımı irdelemeyi amaçlar. Özellikle, bireysellik ve annelik Siyah Milliyetçi söylemde birbiriyle çelişen iki olgudur, çünkü annelik bir dereceye kadar benlikten fedakarlık etmeyi gerektirir. Siyahi Milliyetçiler, annelerin kendi ihtiyaçlarını diğer herkesin ihtiyacı karşılandıktan sonra karşılamaları beklentisindeydiler. Bu çalışmada, Meridian, Mrs. Hills, Cocoa ve Miranda’nın toplumlarının kültürel inşasında …
subject: Articles
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subject: Motherhood
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subject: American Literature
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subject: Community
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subject: Black Nationalism
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creator: Marietta Kosma
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2021-12-01
publication date: 2021-12-01
starting page: 17
ending page: 37

Time and Space of Homesickness: Nâzım Hikmet’s Homesickness as a Chronotope[Sıla Özleminin Zamanı ve Mekânı: Bir Kronotop Olarak Nâzım Hikmet’in Sıla Özlemi]
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description: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theory of Chronotope is a useful method to analyse the functions of temporal and spatial settings of a narrative. The fact that it is mostly applied to studies of prose should not mean that it is not suitable for the analysis of poetry, especially but not necessarily narrative ones. In that sense, the poetry of the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet, as it is rich with elements of narratology, is examined in this article in light of the theory of chronotope. More specifically, his homesickness in his poetry is brought into light regarding the temporal and spatial aspects of and around it. It has been understood from this analysis that Hikmet’s homesickness for his homeland is mostly settings of blurry, fleeting, and both metaphorically and physically far-away images and that it is interwoven with his love and longing for his partners and his son. * This article is a revised version of a part of the author’s master’s thesis. Özet Mihail Bahtin’in Kronotop Teorisi, anlatılardaki zaman mekan unsurlarının işlevlerini incelemede kullanılan yararlı bir yöntemdir. Bu teorinin çoğunlukla düz yazı eserlerinin incelenmesinde kullanılması şiir incelemelerine, özellikle de anlatımcı şiirlerin incelenmesine uygun olmadığı anlamına gelmemelidir. Bu sebeple bu makalede, Türk şair Nâzım Hikmet’in şiirleri, anlatıbilim unsurları bakımından zengin olduğundan, kronotop teorisi ışığında incelenmiştir. Özellikle de şiirlerindeki memleket hasreti, bu duygu üzerinde ve etrafında kurulan zaman mekan unsurları açısından araştırılmıştır. Bu inceleme sonucunda Nâzım Hikmet’in memleket hasretinin çoğunlukla bulanık, belli belirsiz ve hem mecazi hem de fiziki anlamda uzakta betimlenen sahnelerden oluştuğu ve eşleri ile oğlu için duyduğu sevgi ve hasret ile yoğrulduğu anlaşılmıştır. * Bu makale yazarın yüksek lisansından üretilmiştir.
subject: Articles
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subject: homesickness
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subject: chronotope
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subject: chronotope of homesickness
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subject: Nâzım Hikmet
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creator: İlayda Buse Demirci
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-11-09
publication date: 2025-11-09
starting page: 1
ending page: 16