Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Issue 1.1

The inaugural issue of ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies opens with a multifaceted exploration of memory, identity, and the temporal spaces of storytelling.
İlayda Buse Demirci reads Nâzım Hikmet’s homesickness as a chronotope, mapping the poet’s longing across time and space.
Marietta Kosma traces matrilineal heritage in Alice Walker’s Meridian and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, illuminating the feminist threads that bind women’s narratives across generations.
Sevcan Işık and Rızkan Tok reconstruct Victorian society through Dickens’s minor characters, offering a panoramic view of the social microcosm in Bleak House.
Dania Shaikh and Assist. Prof. Dr. Annaashirvadita Sacha analyze Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma and Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine to interrogate the relationship between memory, power, and unreliable narration.
Finally, Pedro Penhoca da Silva and Camila Concato explore memory storytelling and its structural aspects in O drible, bridging Latin American narrative form with psychological reflection.

Together, these works set the tone for ETKİ’s ongoing commitment to transnational literary dialogue and the study of narrative as a vessel of collective and personal memory.