Memory, Trauma, and Testimony

This essay explores the mythic Medusa archetype, used as a symbol of female psychic power in the writings of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Iris Murdoch, and Sylvia Plath.

Research Article| March 01 2007 The Violence of the Archive Wisam Mansour Wisam Mansour Fatih University wmansour@fatih.edu.tr Wisam Mansour is an associate professor of English literature at Fatih University in Istanbul. He previously taught at various universities in Cyprus, Jordan, and Turkey. He is widely publishe…

• VİSAM MANSUR

of the Floating WorldEarly in Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), the narrator Etsuko makes a grim admission.Her eldest daughter, brought to England as a child when Etsuko left Japan after the war, is several years dead.Never able to adjust to her new country, without friends, she has taken her…

• TIMOTHY SEAN WRIGHT

Bu makalede Giorgio Agamben’in tanık kavramının izini sürülmek ve tanığı başka kavramlarla ilgisinde tartışmak amaçlanmaktadır. Agamben tanık kavramını Auschwitz’te yaşananlar üzerinden ele almaktadır. Tanığın bir çıkmaz üzerinden anlatımı onun doğasını belirlemenin aksine muğlaklaştırmaktadır. Tanığın konumu hem yaşa…

• FİKRİYE GÖZDE MOCAN

Les années des guerres entre la Turquie et la Grèce et les migrations qui les ont suivies, ont marqué et façonné la mémoire des Grecs et des Turcs et par conséquent les récits de vie des témoins de cette époque. Ce travail est consacré à l’étude des récits de vie des Grecs et des Turcs dans le but de saisir les simila…

• GÖKÇE BAYINDIR GOULARAS

On 2 July 1993 the fire set on Hotel Madımak in Sivas, Turkey by religious fanatics claimed the lives of 37 people. Such traumatic events need to be narrated to heal the wound they have opened in the public consciousness. Yet it is also true that they pose a serious challenge to the narrator as they lie beyond the rea…

• NAZMİ AĞIL

A fotografia documental, na condição de registro da realidade, é provida de intencionalidades operacionalizadas por técnica. Este artigo contextualiza a fotografia documental sob a perspectiva da construção de uma relação afetiva entre fotógrafo e fotografado, superando as categorizações de objeto, projeto e imagem re…

This article aims to discuss how Handke’s autobiographical narrative, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972), stages the writer’s literary project through a neutral account of his mother’s suicide. Telling the story of his mother, who witnessed the Second World War and the nazi regime, Handke narrates the traumatic history of…

• HİVREN DEMİR ATAY

Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader (1995) has been a very controversial book since its publication. Not only it portrays a sexual relationship between a 15-year-old Michael and 36-year-old Hanna without any judgment on the part of the author as the voice of the society, but it also leaves a space for the reader to sy…

• GAMZE SABANCI UZUN

Abstract Some texts offer to the reader/viewer ambiguity and in-betweenness and they effectively contradict reality within the world of the story and within the world of the reader/viewer. In this paper we look at three distinct fictitious texts as our case studies (Blow-Up [fiction film], Austerlitz [novel] and Mindg…

• ELENI VARMAZI

Abstract Some texts offer to the reader/viewer ambiguity and in-betweenness and they effectively contradict reality within the world of the story and within the world of the reader/viewer. In this paper we look at three distinct fictitious texts as our case studies (Blow-Up [fiction film], Austerlitz [novel] and Mindg…

• TOLGA HEPDİNÇLER

Innerhalb der Menschheitsgeschichte nimmt der Holocaust einen der Abschnitte ein, der durch die systematische Verfolgung und Vernichtung von Millionen Menschen während des Zweiten Weltkriegs unter der Schirmherrschaft des nationalsozialistischen Regimes unter der Führung von Adolf Hitler gekennzeichnet ist. Dieser bei…

• İLKER YİĞİT