Merve Sarıkaya-Şen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merve Sarıkaya-Şen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merve |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarıkaya-Şen |
| SIGNATURE | SARIKAYA-ŞEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Başkent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2091-2536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon’s debut An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017) criticizes the American myth of meritocracy and its cruel optimism (cf. Berlant 2011), promoting as it does equality and acceptance for any U.S. citizen. This Black feminist speculative novel presents a future world where slavery is revived on the HSS Matilda, a spaceship divided into upper and lower decks, which represents Antebellum plantation logic. Matilda carries people from the ruins of …
From Utopia to an Eco-Feminist Critical Dystopia
In this article, I discuss Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness (2020) as an eco-feminist critical dystopia that presents the precarious nature of human lives connected with the more-than-human world. The novel achieves this through Bea and Agnes’s journey from the City to the Wilderness that is mainly constructed by balancing utopian and dystopian elements and thus offering a critical look at our contemporary world under the risk of climate change. W…
Reconfiguring Feminism
In this article I discuss Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019) as a transmodern narrative that gives voice to a marginalised group of black women living in Britain. Written in a hybrid style that combines prose and poetry and eschewing punctuation and long sentences, the novel interweaves sundry stories from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century set in countries ranging from Africa, the Caribbean, and America to Britain. This…
Building Resilience and Interconnectedness among Humans and Nonhuman Entities
Using the theoretical tools provided by the conceptualisations of resilience and interconnectedness, this article carries out a comprehensive analysis of Aminatta Forna’s Happiness (2008). The starting hypothesis explored in this article is that Happiness represents the transformational process of suffering and/or psychological wounds through the reparative agency of interconnectedness among humans as well as between humans and animals. According…
Introduction. Contemporary Literature in Times of Crisis and Vulnerability
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been dominated by multifarious crises that have given way to individual and collective wounds resulting from environmental disasters, exile and migratory movements, war, terrorism, radicalism and other disturbing historical episodes. Our main contention is that trauma and/or excessive exposure to vulnerable situations can be relieved thanks to diverse narrative practices. Accordingly, we ex…
Contemporary Trauma Narratives
Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form." English Studies, 99(2), pp. 222–223
The Representation of Trauma and Trauma Coping Strategies in Grace Nichols’s I is a Long Memoried Woman
Using the historical background of the Middle Passage and slavery and drawing on the tools provided by trauma studies, this study carries out a comprehensive analysis of Grace Nichols’s I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983). The starting hypothesis explored in this study is that I is a Long Memoried Woman represents traumatic experiences of the Middle Passage and slavery as well as trauma coping strategies adopted by Afro-Caribbean slaves, especially…
Reconfiguring Feminism
In this article I discuss Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019) as a transmodern narrative that gives voice to a marginalised group of black women living in Britain. Written in a hybrid style that combines prose and poetry and eschewing punctuation and long sentences, the novel interweaves sundry stories from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century set in countries ranging from Africa, the Caribbean, and America to Britain. This…
Contemporary Trauma Narratives
Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form." English Studies, 99(2), pp. 222–223
Building Resilience and Interconnectedness among Humans and Nonhuman Entities
Using the theoretical tools provided by the conceptualisations of resilience and interconnectedness, this article carries out a comprehensive analysis of Aminatta Forna’s Happiness (2008). The starting hypothesis explored in this article is that Happiness represents the transformational process of suffering and/or psychological wounds through the reparative agency of interconnectedness among humans as well as between humans and animals. According…
Introduction. Contemporary Literature in Times of Crisis and Vulnerability
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been dominated by multifarious crises that have given way to individual and collective wounds resulting from environmental disasters, exile and migratory movements, war, terrorism, radicalism and other disturbing historical episodes. Our main contention is that trauma and/or excessive exposure to vulnerable situations can be relieved thanks to diverse narrative practices. Accordingly, we ex…
The Representation of Trauma and Trauma Coping Strategies in Grace Nichols’s I is a Long Memoried Woman
Using the historical background of the Middle Passage and slavery and drawing on the tools provided by trauma studies, this study carries out a comprehensive analysis of Grace Nichols’s I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983). The starting hypothesis explored in this study is that I is a Long Memoried Woman represents traumatic experiences of the Middle Passage and slavery as well as trauma coping strategies adopted by Afro-Caribbean slaves, especially…
Contemporary Trauma Narratives
Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form." English Studies, 99(2), pp. 222–223
Building Resilience and Interconnectedness among Humans and Nonhuman Entities
Using the theoretical tools provided by the conceptualisations of resilience and interconnectedness, this article carries out a comprehensive analysis of Aminatta Forna’s Happiness (2008). The starting hypothesis explored in this article is that Happiness represents the transformational process of suffering and/or psychological wounds through the reparative agency of interconnectedness among humans as well as between humans and animals. According…
Introduction. Contemporary Literature in Times of Crisis and Vulnerability
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been dominated by multifarious crises that have given way to individual and collective wounds resulting from environmental disasters, exile and migratory movements, war, terrorism, radicalism and other disturbing historical episodes. Our main contention is that trauma and/or excessive exposure to vulnerable situations can be relieved thanks to diverse narrative practices. Accordingly, we ex…
Reconfiguring Feminism
In this article I discuss Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019) as a transmodern narrative that gives voice to a marginalised group of black women living in Britain. Written in a hybrid style that combines prose and poetry and eschewing punctuation and long sentences, the novel interweaves sundry stories from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century set in countries ranging from Africa, the Caribbean, and America to Britain. This…
From Utopia to an Eco-Feminist Critical Dystopia
In this article, I discuss Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness (2020) as an eco-feminist critical dystopia that presents the precarious nature of human lives connected with the more-than-human world. The novel achieves this through Bea and Agnes’s journey from the City to the Wilderness that is mainly constructed by balancing utopian and dystopian elements and thus offering a critical look at our contemporary world under the risk of climate change. W…
Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon’s debut An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017) criticizes the American myth of meritocracy and its cruel optimism (cf. Berlant 2011), promoting as it does equality and acceptance for any U.S. citizen. This Black feminist speculative novel presents a future world where slavery is revived on the HSS Matilda, a spaceship divided into upper and lower decks, which represents Antebellum plantation logic. Matilda carries people from the ruins of …
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)