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    Fashioning the self in Jean Rhys’s voyage in the dark and good morning, midnight
    (Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2024-04) Koç, Nesrin; 13778
    Jean Rhys held a deep passion for fashion and stylish attire. Her perspective on fashion, as an instrument of adopting “a second skin” finds expression in her focus on fashioning the self, a recurring motif in Rhys’s oeuvre. The physical difficulty Rhys’s female characters, whose lives bear strong similarities to her own, have in obtaining fashionable clothes represents the broader struggles they go through as the objects of the patriarchal and colonial gaze, in their voyages through the physical and metaphorical darkness of urban spaces like Paris and London in the early 1900s. Focusing on two of these women, Anna of Voyage in the Dark and Sasha in Good Morning, Midnight, for whom fashionable clothing appears to be the only way of navigating the modern society which marginalizes them, this study explores Rhys’s multilayered portrayal of fashion as a reflection of the near impossibility of attaining a cohesive sense of self, mirroring the characters’ struggles in fashioning their inner and outer selves.
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    From darkness to faith: Muslim afterlife of Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret
    (Sage, 2025-09) Koç, Nesrin; 13778
    In the years following the publication of her debut novel The Translator (1999), Sudanese author Leila Aboulela has emerged as a renowned figure of British Muslim fiction. Scholarly efforts to situate Aboulela's fiction within broader literary circles have often focused on the influence of prominent figures from Arab and African literatures. While these authors have undoubtedly influenced Aboulela's literary vision, there is a notable yet underexplored influence of a Western female author whose work profoundly informs Aboulela's oeuvre. Jean Rhys - whom Aboulela has described as a 'haunting' presence - casts a significant shadow over her fiction, particularly her novel Minaret. Juxtaposing the narratives of exile, dislocation, alienation and unbelonging in both novels, this study lays bare how Aboulela transforms Anna's voyage in the darkness as a young Creole woman in England, to a story of Najwa's finding light in the embrace of Islam as she negotiates loss, identity, faith and a sense of belonging in a secular Western society. Through such narrative reframing, Aboulela both foregrounds the gendered experience of dislocation as a shared narrative terrain, and also inscribes Muslim subjectivity into the landscape of contemporary British fiction.
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    The death of the author and the birth of AI as a scriptor
    (Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, 2022-12) Koç, Nesrin; 13778
    Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning prove that while in its earlier forms, computer technologies and artificial intelligence were mainly used as a tool to aid the production of an art work, it now possesses the ability/intelligence to create, and hence becomes eligible to be treated as an author, who might lay claims to agency and autonomy. Deriving from this point, this study aims to explore the position of AI as an author and its implications for literary studies.