Theses supervised by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Çelikel
10 theses · Pamukkale University
Masculinities in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy: Men's silences and violences
This thesis aims to analyse the critique of masculinity and the war employed in the contemporary British novelist Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy within the frame of Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities and, in particular, through the lens of Raewyn Connell's concept of "hegemonic masculinity". Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities investigate the questions of what masculinity is and how it is socially construed in diverse forms by drawing attention to men's unequal access to power. Particularly, Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity helps to understand how a specific type of masculinity becomes culturally dominant and men feel the pressure to conform to its ideals. Written about the First World War and its impact on men's experiences of masculinity, Barker's Trilogy revolves around the images of shell-shocked, hysteric, paralyzed, mute, stammering men In this respect, each novel of the Trilogy provide a critical perspective to interrogate the construction of masculinities by looking at it from the aspect of those men who fail to live up to hegemonic ideals of masculinity, and who also have become victimized and exploited on account of the social pressures put on them in their attempts to conform to hegemonic ideals of masculinity. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore Barker's representation of men's attempts to negotiate with the forms of hegemonic masculinity in wartime Britain to expose how patriarchal power and gender order also damages men while it promises them to make the most benefit of it in Barker's selected texts with a specific emphasis on men's experience of silences and violences. Key Words: Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy, Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinities, War Neurosis
Transcoding the postcolonial into film: Midnight's Children & The Buddha of Suburbia
Literature comprises unique and specific codes to reflect meaning and ideology. Postcolonialism makes use of concepts such as history, identity, hybridity, mimicry, and ambivalence, as codes to foster the understanding of the movement. Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi are two prominent authors who portray postcolonial India and England in their novels. Rushdie in his novel Midnight's Children recreates history juxtaposing it with the personal history of the protagonist Saleem and employs various narration techniques and postcolonial imagery to picture India in colonial and postcolonial periods. Hanif Kureishi in his autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia displays the racial and cultural situation of 1970s England via the postcolonial imagery he uses. A film adaptation is the transfer of a text into a film. Film adaptation studies are mostly based on the evaluation of fidelity however "transcoding" is the ideal term to understand the process of adaptation. Mise en scène, camera work, use of light and editing are the codes of film language that allow the viewers to decode the meaning. Both novels of Rushdie and Kureishi are adapted into films and this study aims to decipher the codes of postcolonialism to understand novels and visual codes of film to comprehend their film adaptations. This study endeavours to find out the extent of the adaptations in terms of reflecting postcolonial imagery. The aim of the present dissertation is to offer new insights into film adaptation analysis by deciphering the transcoded postcolonial meanings.
The politics of place: A study of lieux de mémoire in Orwell's early novels
This thesis re-evaluates the early fiction of George Orwell—Burmese Days (1934), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), and Coming Up for Air (1939)—as sophisticated "memory texts" whose engagement with the past is central to their literary and political projects. While Orwell's legacy is justifiably defined by his role as a political thinker, this critical focus has often privileged his later masterpieces, framing the early novels as mere precursors. This study challenges that teleological reading by arguing that these formative works contain a complex and evolving exploration of memory, identity, and place that is crucial for understanding Orwell's later work. Employing a theoretical framework from Memory Studies centred on Pierre Nora's concept of lieux de mémoire ("sites of memory"), this thesis analyses how specific physical and symbolic sites function within Orwell's narratives. The analysis reveals a clear developmental trajectory in Orwell's use of memory. Burmese Days stages a conflict between an artificial colonial lieu de mémoire and an organic indigenous milieu de mémoire, a struggle embodied in the personal trauma of its protagonist. Keep the Aspidistra Flying internalises this conflict, presenting a dialectic between a decaying literary past and an aggressive capitalist modernity that results in ideological compromise. Finally, Coming Up for Air charts the failure of nostalgic memory against the traumatic ruptures of the modern world, concluding that no physical or mental sanctuary remains. Ultimately, this study demonstrates that Orwell's early explorations of memory's fallibility, its role in identity formation, and its connection to societal power provide the crucial thematic and psychological groundwork for his later, famous critiques of systemic memory manipulation under totalitarianism. In doing so, this thesis offers a significant re-evaluation of his early fiction, proving its central importance for a more complete understanding of George Orwell's literary method and intellectual development.
Postcolonial discourse in Andrea Levy's novels
Within the context of postcolonial discourse analysis, the purpose of this thesis is not only to reveal the effects of postcolonial conditions on Caribbean and British societies in Andrea Levy's novels but also to investigate the terminology associated with these various processes. Throughout her life, Levy has produced works about the post-colonial processes, the transformations in the identities and cultures of the indigenous Caribbean people and the effects on their social life. In her novels, Levy depicts the migration of Caribbean people to Britain, whose lives have been changed and oppressed due to colonialism. As the number of migrants increase, Caribbeans have been subjected to cultural issues, identity crises, prejudices, discrimination, and racism within British society. The hybrid characters who vacillate between cultures in limbo reflect the postcolonial representations and colonialist perception in the novels. Very few critics have addressed to this aspect of Levy's works, which blends tragedies that are not included in the official history of colonialism, research and compilations of his family origins, with auto-fiction technique. It is aimed to contribute to the literature by analysing all of Levy's novels, which can be accepted as an annotation on official history, in a single study under the title of postcolonial discourse analysis. Discourse analysis of the novels has been made through Homi. K. Bhabha's theories and concepts such as identity, third space, hybridity, mimicry, displacement, unhomeliness, and otherization.
Masculinities in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy: Men's silences and violences
This thesis aims to analyse the critique of masculinity and the war employed in the contemporary British novelist Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy within the frame of Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities and, in particular, through the lens of Raewyn Connell's concept of "hegemonic masculinity". Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities investigate the questions of what masculinity is and how it is socially construed in diverse forms by drawing attention to men's unequal access to power. Particularly, Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity helps to understand how a specific type of masculinity becomes culturally dominant and men feel the pressure to conform to its ideals. Written about the First World War and its impact on men's experiences of masculinity, Barker's Trilogy revolves around the images of shell-shocked, hysteric, paralyzed, mute, stammering men In this respect, each novel of the Trilogy provide a critical perspective to interrogate the construction of masculinities by looking at it from the aspect of those men who fail to live up to hegemonic ideals of masculinity, and who also have become victimized and exploited on account of the social pressures put on them in their attempts to conform to hegemonic ideals of masculinity. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore Barker's representation of men's attempts to negotiate with the forms of hegemonic masculinity in wartime Britain to expose how patriarchal power and gender order also damages men while it promises them to make the most benefit of it in Barker's selected texts with a specific emphasis on men's experience of silences and violences. Key Words: Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy, Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinities, War Neurosis
Transcoding the postcolonial into film: Midnight's Children & The Buddha of Suburbia
Literature comprises unique and specific codes to reflect meaning and ideology. Postcolonialism makes use of concepts such as history, identity, hybridity, mimicry, and ambivalence, as codes to foster the understanding of the movement. Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi are two prominent authors who portray postcolonial India and England in their novels. Rushdie in his novel Midnight's Children recreates history juxtaposing it with the personal history of the protagonist Saleem and employs various narration techniques and postcolonial imagery to picture India in colonial and postcolonial periods. Hanif Kureishi in his autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia displays the racial and cultural situation of 1970s England via the postcolonial imagery he uses. A film adaptation is the transfer of a text into a film. Film adaptation studies are mostly based on the evaluation of fidelity however "transcoding" is the ideal term to understand the process of adaptation. Mise en scène, camera work, use of light and editing are the codes of film language that allow the viewers to decode the meaning. Both novels of Rushdie and Kureishi are adapted into films and this study aims to decipher the codes of postcolonialism to understand novels and visual codes of film to comprehend their film adaptations. This study endeavours to find out the extent of the adaptations in terms of reflecting postcolonial imagery. The aim of the present dissertation is to offer new insights into film adaptation analysis by deciphering the transcoded postcolonial meanings.
Transcoding the postcolonial into film: Midnight's Children & The Buddha of Suburbia
Literature comprises unique and specific codes to reflect meaning and ideology. Postcolonialism makes use of concepts such as history, identity, hybridity, mimicry, and ambivalence, as codes to foster the understanding of the movement. Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi are two prominent authors who portray postcolonial India and England in their novels. Rushdie in his novel Midnight's Children recreates history juxtaposing it with the personal history of the protagonist Saleem and employs various narration techniques and postcolonial imagery to picture India in colonial and postcolonial periods. Hanif Kureishi in his autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia displays the racial and cultural situation of 1970s England via the postcolonial imagery he uses. A film adaptation is the transfer of a text into a film. Film adaptation studies are mostly based on the evaluation of fidelity however "transcoding" is the ideal term to understand the process of adaptation. Mise en scène, camera work, use of light and editing are the codes of film language that allow the viewers to decode the meaning. Both novels of Rushdie and Kureishi are adapted into films and this study aims to decipher the codes of postcolonialism to understand novels and visual codes of film to comprehend their film adaptations. This study endeavours to find out the extent of the adaptations in terms of reflecting postcolonial imagery. The aim of the present dissertation is to offer new insights into film adaptation analysis by deciphering the transcoded postcolonial meanings.
Masculinities in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy: Men's silences and violences
This thesis aims to analyse the critique of masculinity and the war employed in the contemporary British novelist Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy within the frame of Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities and, in particular, through the lens of Raewyn Connell's concept of "hegemonic masculinity". Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities investigate the questions of what masculinity is and how it is socially construed in diverse forms by drawing attention to men's unequal access to power. Particularly, Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity helps to understand how a specific type of masculinity becomes culturally dominant and men feel the pressure to conform to its ideals. Written about the First World War and its impact on men's experiences of masculinity, Barker's Trilogy revolves around the images of shell-shocked, hysteric, paralyzed, mute, stammering men In this respect, each novel of the Trilogy provide a critical perspective to interrogate the construction of masculinities by looking at it from the aspect of those men who fail to live up to hegemonic ideals of masculinity, and who also have become victimized and exploited on account of the social pressures put on them in their attempts to conform to hegemonic ideals of masculinity. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore Barker's representation of men's attempts to negotiate with the forms of hegemonic masculinity in wartime Britain to expose how patriarchal power and gender order also damages men while it promises them to make the most benefit of it in Barker's selected texts with a specific emphasis on men's experience of silences and violences. Key Words: Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy, Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinities, War Neurosis
Masculinities in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy: Men's silences and violences
This thesis aims to analyse the critique of masculinity and the war employed in the contemporary British novelist Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy within the frame of Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities and, in particular, through the lens of Raewyn Connell's concept of "hegemonic masculinity". Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities investigate the questions of what masculinity is and how it is socially construed in diverse forms by drawing attention to men's unequal access to power. Particularly, Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity helps to understand how a specific type of masculinity becomes culturally dominant and men feel the pressure to conform to its ideals. Written about the First World War and its impact on men's experiences of masculinity, Barker's Trilogy revolves around the images of shell-shocked, hysteric, paralyzed, mute, stammering men In this respect, each novel of the Trilogy provide a critical perspective to interrogate the construction of masculinities by looking at it from the aspect of those men who fail to live up to hegemonic ideals of masculinity, and who also have become victimized and exploited on account of the social pressures put on them in their attempts to conform to hegemonic ideals of masculinity. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore Barker's representation of men's attempts to negotiate with the forms of hegemonic masculinity in wartime Britain to expose how patriarchal power and gender order also damages men while it promises them to make the most benefit of it in Barker's selected texts with a specific emphasis on men's experience of silences and violences. Key Words: Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy, Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinities, War Neurosis
Transcoding the postcolonial into film: Midnight's Children & The Buddha of Suburbia
Literature comprises unique and specific codes to reflect meaning and ideology. Postcolonialism makes use of concepts such as history, identity, hybridity, mimicry, and ambivalence, as codes to foster the understanding of the movement. Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi are two prominent authors who portray postcolonial India and England in their novels. Rushdie in his novel Midnight's Children recreates history juxtaposing it with the personal history of the protagonist Saleem and employs various narration techniques and postcolonial imagery to picture India in colonial and postcolonial periods. Hanif Kureishi in his autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia displays the racial and cultural situation of 1970s England via the postcolonial imagery he uses. A film adaptation is the transfer of a text into a film. Film adaptation studies are mostly based on the evaluation of fidelity however "transcoding" is the ideal term to understand the process of adaptation. Mise en scène, camera work, use of light and editing are the codes of film language that allow the viewers to decode the meaning. Both novels of Rushdie and Kureishi are adapted into films and this study aims to decipher the codes of postcolonialism to understand novels and visual codes of film to comprehend their film adaptations. This study endeavours to find out the extent of the adaptations in terms of reflecting postcolonial imagery. The aim of the present dissertation is to offer new insights into film adaptation analysis by deciphering the transcoded postcolonial meanings.