Literature: Textual, Contextual, Conceptual Concerns in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Productions

This book, which includes selected contemporary literary and cultural productions in English, focuses on textual, contextual and conceptual concerns. In this respect, the aim of this book is to provide a resource that will benefit all relevant segments of the field of literature in a variety of periods, genres and theories.

This volume of the Synergy Literature series focuses mainly on contemporary literary and cultural works in English. Authors of this book bring new perspectives on a wide range of literary works, as well as significant social movements and works of popular culture, with a focus mostly but not solely on novels, plays, and poetry. The book consists of 10 chapters, each covering various historical periods, literary works, and themes. While reading this book, readers will encounter analyses of works in the fantasy genre or the best-selling science fiction of recent years, or they will see reflections on feminism from the past to the present. In this regard, this book will be an important sourcebook for a broad scientific readership of graduate students and academics, regardless of the genre or period of literature in which they specialize.

Autorentext

Küu Tekin, a graduate from At l m University, received her M.A. in English Literature in 2003 and completed her PhD at the Middle East Technical University in 2010. She is currently teaching at At l m University in the Department of English Language and Literature. Her areas of interest are postcolonial literature, contemporary British fiction, immigrant literature and urban studies. She has published several articles and chapters in national and international journals and books.

Seda Küçu Özbudak, a graduate of Gazi University, was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship in 2010, teaching Turkish as a foreign language at the University of Massachusetts. She received her M.A. from Ankara University in 2013 and completed her PhD at Gazi University in 2018. Since 2012, she has been a lecturer at Gazi University, also serving as the vice director of the Academic Writing Application and Research Centre. Her current research interests include audiovisual translation, translation of Turkish audiovisual products, subtitling on video-on-demand platforms, and audience research.

Inhalt
Foreword and Dedication - Editors' Biographies - Infinite Life Options through Multiple Universes in Matt Haig's Sci- Fi Work Midnight Library - Where Does the Enemy Come From: The Representation of the Immigrant and the British in Simon Stephens' Pornography - Matt Haig's The Humans: The Use of Defamiliarization to Define the Human - From the Damsel in Distress to the Distressed Dude: Transgressing Gender Dichotomies in Howl's Moving Castle - Bibi Khanum Astarabadi's The Vices Of Men and Early Feminist Thought in Iran - The Case of PC Principal: Satirical Representations of Social Justice in South Park - From Rhyme to Crime: Postmodern Playfulness in Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy - A Feminist Reading of Rupi Kaur's milk and honey - Live Like Cockroaches: A Homeless Immigrant's Struggle Leading to Stereotypification - Tom Murphy's Alice Trilogy as a Drama of Nothingness - Authors' Biographies