Promises of monsters: Those haunting Turkish feminist speculative fiction

This study discusses the ethical and political potentials, as well as the limitations, of monstrous and ghostly promises that haunt various texts in Turkish feminist speculative fiction. Within the scope of the historical period extending from the early 20th century to the present, this dissertation employs various theories and discussions prominent in Monster Studies and Hauntologies. It analyzes the stories that transcend the boundaries of corporeal by destabilizing or dismantling the cultural narratives related to heteropatriarchal and anthropocentric power structures. This study demonstrates how these texts can be read as narratives of resistance. Thus, it traces the possibilities of different kinds of kinship through monster representations in Turkish feminist literature.