A sociocritical review: The identity problem in Leila Slimani's the country of others trilogy

This study aims to examine Leïla Slimani's The Country of Others trilogy through a sociocritical approach and an interpretive perspective. The trilogy consists of the works The Country of Others (2020) (Fr. Les Pays des Autres), The Country of Others: Watch Us Dance (2022), and J'emporterai le feu (2025), which has not yet been translated into Turkish. Within the scope of the study, the trilogy is examined through a sociocritical approach. Using the conceptual tools offered by the sociocritical approach (sociogram, social relation scale, interdiscursivity, etc.), the multi-layered structure of the identity problematic addressed in the trilogy is revealed. Both the traces of social discourse in the production processes of the texts and their ideological and cultural dimensions in the reception stage are examined. The study consists of a theoretical section that examines the historical development, theoretical foundations, and basic concepts of sociocriticism, and an analysis section containing the analysis of the works. In the analysis section, the works are examined on four basic levels: contextual, social-ideological, social-historical, and social-identity, and the analysis of each work is concluded with interim syntheses. As a result, a comprehensive synthesis is made within the framework of the general sociocritical context of the trilogy. This research also aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of the sociocritical method in postcolonial literary studies and to contribute to the more widespread use of this method in academic literature in Turkey.