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- PublicationDeconstructing the language laws: Arundhati Roy’s linguistic strategies in The God of small things(Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, 2023) Koç, Nesrin; Koç, NesrinArundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997) is a story which portrays how things deemed to be the smallest are connected to, shaped, and constructed by the bigger discourses of history, colonialism, gender, caste, and religion which define the subject. With her linguistic strategies aiming at deconstruction of the language, Roy unveils how the voice of the subaltern is located on the margins of the dominant discourses, and therefore, listening to the subaltern’s voice requires dwelling on the alternative spaces of existence constructed by the subaltern. Estha’s refusal to speak, Ammu, Velutha and Rahel’s resistance to the laws that determine interpersonal relations and their use of the language of the body are among the significant examples of the mechanisms used by the subaltern to resist domination. By exploring Roy’s linguistic strategies through close reading and textual analysis of the silences and alternative linguistic positions of the postcolonial subject, who is further marginalised by gender, caste and religion, from a position that combines postcolonial theory with a Lacanian perspective, this study aims to highlight how Roy creates a unique linguistic expression through the subversive strategies she utilizes to disrupt hegemonic power structures and challenge the established norms of society, culture and language. Designing, constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing, as in the architectural profession in which she was trained, Roy transforms standard English into an effective tool of communicating the postcolonial subject’s experiences of subalternity.
- PublicationDoğuşundan ölümüne, yok oluşundan dirilişine yazar figürünün tarihsel değişimi(Bidge Yayınları, 2023) Koç, NesrinYazar figürü varlığı ve yokluğu etrafında şekillenen tartışmalar ile tarih boyunca edebiyatta önemli bir yer tutmuştur. Şüphesiz, bu tartışmaların en bilindik örneklerinden biri de Roland Barthes’ın “Yazarın Ölümü” denemesidir. Barthes’ın metni yaratan yazardan ziyade metnin kendisine yaptığı vurgu, metin okuma biçimlerini de kökten bir değişikliğe uğratmış, yazara karşı eleştirel bir tutum takınmış olan edebi teorilerin yaygın olarak benimsenmesi ile yazar metnin gerisine itilmiştir. Yine de yazar edebiyat dünyasında yazan kişi, yazman, karakter, Foucault açısından bir “işlev” ya da Barthes’ın deyimiyle “halıdaki figür” de olsa varlığını sürdürmeye devam etmiştir. Postmodernizm ve post-postmodernizm ise “ölmüş” olan yazarı yeniden ön plana çıkarmıştır. Postmodernizm ve sonrasındaki dönem değerlendirildiğinde postmodern ironinin yerini post-postmodern içtenliğin, yapısökümün yerini ise yeniden yapılandırmacı yöntemin almasıyla yazar algısında bir değişim yaşandığı söylenebilir. Bu çalışma, yazarın doğuşu, ölümü ve yeniden dirilişi bağlamında tarih boyunca yazar tanımının geçirdiği değişimleri ele alarak yazarlık ve otorite arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemektedir.
- ItemFrom darkness to faith: Muslim afterlife of Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret(Sage, 2025-09) Koç, Nesrin; 13778In 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.
- PublicationThe death of the author and the birth of AI as a scriptor(Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, 2022-12) Koç, Nesrin; 13778Recent 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.
