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  • Issue 5.1
    Cilt 5 Sayı 1 (2025)

    In this issue, ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies explores the intersections of war, ethics, and human identity.
    Ananya Mukhopadhyay examines the search for self and other through Edward Bond’s War Plays, offering a Levinasian ethical reading of motherhood and loss.
    Asst. Prof. Dr. Murali Malini presents a compelling comparative study of Amelina, Szymborska, and Akhmatova, portraying three poetic gazes upon the experience of war.
    Assist. Prof. Dr. Sarah Moon reconsiders Brecht’s Unmensch as a modern symbol of protest and endurance in the twenty-first century.

    Together, these contributions invite reflection on the role of art and ethics in confronting the human cost of conflict.

  • Issue 4.2
    Cilt 4 Sayı 2 (2024)

    The seventh issue of ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies explores the intertwined questions of memory, identity, and cultural transformation across literature and performance.
    Lect. Ranran Zhang reinterprets A Streetcar Named Desire through the lens of affect theory, examining how disruptive performances challenge national sentimentality.
    Zhu Xuany investigates the phylogenetics of Ancient Greek tragedy through cultural anthropology, analyzing how fate and primitive thought shape the tragic imagination.
    Sreya Mukherjee delves into Partition narratives to uncover the intersections of memory, identity, and body politics in postcolonial literature.

    Together, these studies illuminate the ways literature and performance continually reconstruct the contours of collective memory and cultural experience.

  • Issue 4.1
    Cilt 4 Sayı 1 (2024)

    The sixth issue of ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies brings together reflections on creativity, realism, and the search for meaning across cultural and geographical frontiers.
    Shola Balogun re-examines Bode Osanyin’s Writer’s Resort, portraying the artist as both dreamer and realist within Nigeria’s literary landscape.
    Debapriya Sarkar offers a perceptive review of Gulzar’s Footprints on Zero Line, tracing poetic responses to the trauma of Partition and the lingering scars of borders.
    Somenath Mahato discusses Easterine Kire’s When the River Sleeps, uncovering its mystical narrative of spirituality, journey, and self-discovery in Northeast India.

    Together, these works illuminate how literature continues to navigate the delicate balance between imagination, history, and lived experience.

  • Issue 3.2
    Cilt 3 Sayı 2 (2023)

    The fifth issue of ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies examines the intersections of culture, performance, and identity across linguistic and artistic boundaries.
    Prof. Nadia Naar Gada investigates the impact of Turkish culture on Kateb Yacine’s La poudre d’intelligence (1959), revealing cross-cultural exchanges that enrich Maghrebi literature.
    Damilare Ogunmekan analyzes Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are Not to Blame through the lens of Yoruba aesthetics, uncovering how local cultural forms shape theatrical expression.
    Lect. Gizem Gürer Arslan presents An Experimental Performance about the Origins, a performative exploration of roots and identity.
    Erdal Ozan Metin evaluates Stage Beauty to discuss the constructed nature of gender roles and their representation on stage and screen.
    Finally, Münevver Gülbağ studies the effect of off-stage narratives in folk tales and tragedy, offering insights into narrative structure and audience perception.

    Collectively, these contributions reveal how artistic performance and cultural imagination continue to define and question the aesthetics of identity.

  • Issue 3.1
    Cilt 3 Sayı 1 (2023)

    The fourth issue of ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies brings together reflections on identity, faith, and ecological ethics within postcolonial contexts.
    Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo and Divine Sheriff Uchenna Joe analyze Ahmed Yerima’s Pari to explore how Nigeria’s ethno-religious postnormality shapes personal and collective consciousness.
    Asst. Master Kaustav Chanda reconsiders Jim Corbett as both hunter and conservationist, questioning the moral paradoxes at the intersection of human instinct, colonial history, and environmental responsibility.

    Together, these studies interrogate the fragile balance between belief, ethics, and humanity’s evolving relationship with nature and society.

  • Issue 2.2
    Cilt 2 Sayı 2 (2022)

    The third issue of ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies investigates how art and analysis intersect with systems of power, justice, and representation.
    Assist. Prof. Dr. Chetan Saini examines Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries to uncover the evolution of rural crime narratives and the emergence of police reform discourses within popular fiction.
    Prof. Manosh Chowdhury engages in a critical dialogue with Eugenio Barba, situating theatre anthropology as a living discipline that bridges theory, performance, and embodied knowledge.

    Together, these contributions reflect ETKİ’s ongoing commitment to exploring the aesthetic, social, and philosophical dimensions of cultural practice.

  • Issue 2.1
    Cilt 2 Sayı 1 (2022)

    The second issue of ETKİ: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies engages with the intersections of performance, politics, and spatial imagination in contemporary cultural discourse.
    Dr. Saumya Mani Tripathi analyzes the student resistance movements in India, tracing how new media performance and embodied politics reshape narratives of protest and collective identity.
    Dr. M. Anjum Khan reviews Camille Manfredi’s Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art, situating it within the Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies framework to examine the interrelation between environment, art, and literary space.

    Together, these contributions illuminate how art, media, and critical geography interact to redefine cultural resistance and creative expression.

  • Issue 1.1
    Cilt 1 Sayı 1 (2021)

    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.