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Shades of Violence:

Multidisciplinary Reflections on Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts

Edited by Sümeyra Buran; Mahinur Akşehir; Neslihan Köroğlu; Barış Ağır

Published: 21.12.2023 [Posthumanism Series: 8]

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“Shades of Violence: Multidisciplinary Reflections on Violence in Literature, Culture, and Arts” explores the tapestry of violence across diverse forms of artistic expression, expertly edited by Sümeyra Buran, Mahinur Akşehir, Neslihan Köroğlu, and Barış Ağır. From the gripping introduction to the thought-provoking chapters contributed by an array of scholars, this collection navigates the multifaceted dimensions of violence. Muhsin Yanar’s exploration of Don DeLillo’s work calls for a posthumanist stance against violence, while Begüm Tuğlu Atamer questions the justification of violence in Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus.” The anthology expands its reach, examining slow violence in John Burnside’s “Glister” (Derya Biderci Dinç), portraying environmental violence in Bilge Karasu’s “Hurt Me Not” (Özlem Akyol), and unraveling psychological violence in Kate Chopin’s stories (Senem Üstün Kaya). Contributors delve into theatre violence (Gamze Şentürk Tatar), indigenous struggles against violence in Cheran, Mexico (Kristy L. Masten), Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” (Derya Oruç) and the complex interplay of power in Anthony Burgess’s “A Clockwork Orange” (Şebnem Düzgün). The anthology also explores the contested space of the Black queer body (Taylor Ajowele Duckett), Nietzschean aggression (Yunus Tuncel), and various forms of violence in Giovanni Verga’s short stories (Simone Pettine). “Shades of Violence” emerges as an indispensable exploration of violence’s nuanced manifestations, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding through its diverse and insightful perspectives.

Contents

• SHADES OF VIOLENCE: AN INTRODUCTION..Mahinur Akşehir
• CHAPTER 1. A POSTHUMANIST CALL AGAINST VIOLENCE IN DON DELILLO’S OUVRE ..Muhsin Yanar
• CHAPTER 2. WHO IS TO BLAME?: JUSTIFYING VIOLENCE IN TITUS ANDRONICUS…Begüm Tuğlu Atamer
• CHAPTER 3. SLOW VIOLENCE OF TOXICITY IN GLISTER BY JOHN BURNSIDE.. Derya Biderci Dinç
• CHAPTER 4. INSIDE THE WORLD OF THE VILLAIN: VIOLENCE IN ROBERT BROWNING’S “PORPHYRIA’S LOVER”. Derya Oruç
• CHAPTER 5. STAGING VIOLENCE IN THEATRE.. Gamze Şentürk Tatar
• CHAPTER 6. RECLAIMING INDIGENOUS SECURITY: RESPONDING TO VIOLENCE IN CHERAN, MEXICO.. Kristy L. Masten
• CHAPTER 7. SUFFERING NATURE, SUFFERING HUMANS: AFTER LONDON AS A PORTRAYAL OF ANTHROPOCENTRIC VIOLENCE.. Kübra Baysal
• CHAPTER 8. REPRESENTATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE IN BİLGE KARASU’S “HURT ME NOT”. Özlem Akyol
• CHAPTER 9. PARTICIPATING IN, WITNESSING AND REPORTING VIOLENCE AT THE U.S.-MEXICAN BORDERLANDS: REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE IN THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER BY FRANCISCO CANTU.. Özlem Atar
• CHAPTER 10. FROM ANTHROPOCENE TO CHTHULUCENE: THE BIOMYHTOGRAPHY OF BEGOTTEN.. Penny Papageorgopoulou and Dimitris Charitos
• CHAPTER 11. WHEN HOME IS A PRISON: PYSCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE IN KATE CHOPIN’S SELECTED STORIES. Senem Üstün Kaya
• CHAPTER 12. VIOLENCE, POWER, AND COUNTER-POWER IN ANTHONY BURGESS’S A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.. Şebnem Düzgün
• CHAPTER 13. The BLACK QUEER BODY AS A SITE OF CONTESTED SPACE.. Taylor Ajowele Duckett
• CHAPTER 14. THE QUESTION OF AGGRESSIVITY IN NIETZSCHE AND PYSCHOANALYSIS  Yunus Tuncel
• CHAPTER 15. RAPES, MURDERS, HONOR KILLINGS: FORMS OF VIOLENCE IN GIOVANNI VERGA’S SHORT STORIES. Simone Pettine

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Authors

Sümeyra Buran is an Associate Professor of English at Istanbul Medeniyet University and a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida. She is the founding and managing editor of the Journal of Posthumanism, the editor of Transnational Press London’s Posthumanism Series, the editor of Edebiyatta Posthümanizm (Posthumanism in Literature 2020), the editor of Çokludisiplinlerde Posthumanizm (Posthumanism in Multidisciplinary Studies 2022), the co-editor (with Sherryl Vint) of Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and Politics of Reproduction (Palgrave 2022), the co-editor of the first Anthology of Turkish Science Fiction (TpLondon 2022), the co-editor (with Jim Clarke) of Religious Futurisms (Manchester University Press 2022), and the co-editor (with Jire Gözen) of Beyond the Occident: Perspectives on Past, Present and Speculative Future in Fiction, Art, Media and Film (Routledge 2022). Also, she is a country focal point representative of the European Observatory on Femicide (EOF), a committee member of BIPOC at IAFA, and a country representative (Turkey) at SFRA. Buran is currently writing her monograph on Su-fi: Sufi Science Fiction.

Mahinur Akşehir is currently employed as an Associate Professor at the department of English Language and Literature at Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Ege University, at the same department between 2001 and 2012. She was also a visiting scholar at Temple University in Philadelphia, US and Dortmund Technical University in Germany to conduct reasearch on her PhD between 2009 and 2011. Her studies revolve around studies in satire, modern and contemporary novel, women’s literature extending towards theoretical frameworks such as violence, biopolitics, gender studies, psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Neslihan Köroğlu works as a lecturer at the department of Foreign Languages at Izmir Katip Celebi University. She completed her undergraduate studies at the department of English Language and Literature at Ege University. She received her M.A. from Dokuz Eylul University, American Culture and Literature department. In 2020, she received her PhD from Ege University, English Language and Literature department. In 2019, she was a visiting researcher at Newcastle University, the UK, funded by TUBITAK. Her areas of research include Shakespeare studies, adaptation and appropriation studies, women’s literature and literary theory.

 

Barış Ağır is a faculty member at Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Department of English Language and Literature. He received his BA and MA degrees in English Language and Literature from Dumlupınar University. He received his PhD from Ege University, Department of English Language and Literature with his dissertation on American ecopoetry. His academic interests include ecocritical studies, postcolonial studies, animal studies, gender studies, and posthumanism.

Muhsin Yanar works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Translation and Interpretation (English) at Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University and teaches Literature, Discourse Analysis, Semantics and Intertextuality. He received his bachelor’s degree from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University and his MA and Ph.D., in English Language and Literature from Istanbul Aydın University. Yanar is the author of Don DeLillo ve Meta-İnsan: Çağdaş Amerikan Romanında Metalaşma (trans. Don DeLillo and the Meta-Human: Commodification in the Contemporary American Novel, 2021). In the first and second editorial books of the Posthumanism Series, Edebiyatta Posthümanizm (trans. Posthumanism in Literature, 2020) and Çokdisiplinli Çalışmalarda Posthümanizm (trans. Posthumanism in Multidisciplinary Studies, 2022), Yanar contributed as an author, translator, and copyeditor. His research interests are Modern British and American fiction, science fiction, posthumanism, transhumanism, future studies, gender studies and ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecopedagogy, posthumanist ecocriticism. Yanar is currently working on de/re/ territorialization, post/trans/corporeality and post/trans/human models in Modern fiction.

Begüm Tuğlu Atamer is currently working as a research assistant at the department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Ege University. She completed her PhD entitled “Metamorphic Perceptions of Reality from Modernism to Postmodernism in Samuel Beckett‘s Novels” in March 2018. She is the editor of Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies. She is also working as a project coordinator at the European Languages and Cultures Research and Application Centre, ADİKAM, Ege University. Her research interests include Beckett Studies, the theory of the novel, cultural studies, and the philosophy of literature.

Derya Biderci Dinç currently works as an assistant professor in the department of English Language and Literature at Istanbul Topkapı University. She completed her undergraduate studies in the department of English Language and Literature at Istanbul University. She completed her MA in English Language and Literature with her thesis entitled “Recreation of Woman through Word in the Woman Warrior, Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston and Fantasia, An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar.” She received her PhD in English Language and Literature from Erciyes University. She has been researching topics related to colonialism, postcolonialism, ecocriticism, ecofeminism and posthumanism.

Derya Oruç is a faculty member of Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Education Sciences, Foreign Language Education Department, English Language Education. She completed her undergraduate studies in the department of English Language and Literature at Yeditepe University. She obtained her Master’s Degree from Yeditepe University, and worked on the behaviour of the criminal minds in literature. She attained her PhD from the same university and studied dissonance and memory in Shakespeare. Her research interests lie primarily in William Shakespeare‘s plays, Victorian Poetry, Cognitive Dissonance, Episodic Memory, Defense Mechanisms and Criminal Minds along with the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Gamze Şentürk Tatar is currently working at Munzur University. She graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature of Atatürk University in 2011. She got her master’s degree from Atatürk University, Department of English Language and Literature in 2014. She also received her PhD from the same university in 2020 with her thesis titled “Hybridity in Anthony Neilson‘s Selected Plays”. Her research interests are British theatre, Anthony Neilson, Sarah Daniels, Caryl Churchill, gender studies, film studies, and performance studies. She has published various articles and book chapters such as “Theatre and Psychological Realism: In-Yer-Head Theatre” (2021), “Hybridity in Anthony Neilson’s Realism and Narrative” (2022), and Ecological Disaster and Eco-Anxiety in Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London (2022).

Kristy L. Masten is a faculty member in the School of Art at The University of Texas at San Antonio. She has a BS in Justice Systems from Truman State University, a BA in Art History from Arizona State University, and an MA in Art History and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching from The University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research interests include Spanish and Colonial artworks and the critical educational contexts in which these topics are taught, such as the curricula and pedagogies within classrooms, museums, and public spaces. Previous publications include “The Art Museum: A Site for Developing Second Language and Academic Discourse Processes” in Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice (2017).

Kübra Baysal works at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University School of Foreign Languages. As a graduate of Hacettepe University English Language and Literature Department BA programme (2008), she received her MA from Atatürk University from the same department in 2013. She earned her PhD from Hacettepe University English Language and Literature Department in January 2019. Her main fields of interest are climate fiction, apocalypse fiction, Doris Lessing, feminism, environmental studies, the Victorian novel, and the contemporary novel. She has had translation works, book chapters, and research articles published in international books and journals. She is the editor of the volumes, Apocalyptic Visions in the Anthropocene and the Rise of Climate Fiction (2021) and Depictions of Pestilence in Literature, Media, and Art (2023) by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Özlem Akyol is an instructor at School of Foreign Languages, Pamukkale University, Turkey. She completed her B.A at Atatürk University and M.A at Celal Bayar University. She holds a PhD from the Department of English Language and Literature at Pamukkale University. Her research interests include fantastic literature with a particular focus on urban fantasy and ecocritical theories. Her studies include “Climate Change: An Apocalypse for Urban Space? An Ecocritical Reading of “Venice Drowned” and “The Tamarisk Hunter” (2019), “The Sounds of Horseshoe: A Zoopoetic Reading of Yılkı Atı by Abbas Sayar” (2020), An Ecosocial Reading of Slow Violence in Latife Tekin’s Manves City“ (2021).

Özlem Atar holds a PhD in Communication Sciences with specialization in Literary Intercultural Communication inquiry. Previously, she taught at Hacettepe University and Middle East Technical University in Türkiye. Currently, she is affiliated with Queen`s University in Canada as a doctoral candidate, teaching fellow, and writing consultant. Her work-in progress (second) doctoral project in Queen`s Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program engages narratives of migration with a focus on irregular border crossing across the Americas. Özlem explores the junction between migrant justice advocacy and literature; the ethics, aesthetics, and politics of migration narratives comprise much of her reading, writing, and teaching. The essay in this edited collection stems from her ongoing research and two other manuscripts are forthcoming in reputable venues.

Penny Papageorgopoulou is a computer scientist, visual artist and new media scholar currently engaged in doctoral research on posthumanism and the impact of wearable and insertable devices on the users’ body image and emotional state. She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication and Media Studies of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2015, she received her M.Sc. in Digital Communication Media and Interactive Environments from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2008, she received her BSc. in Telecommunications Science and Technology from the University of Peloponnese. She is a member of Spatial Media Research Group. Her scientific interests include embodied computing, the broader field of human-computer interaction, as well as the design, development, and evaluation of immersive systems.

Dimitris Charitos is an Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he teaches human-machine communication, interactive design, digital art and visual communication. He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens, and C.A.A.D. in the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow). He holds a PhD in interactive and virtual environments design. His artistic practice includes electronic music, audiovisual and interactive installations and virtual environments. He has participated in exhibitions in Greece, the UK and Cyprus. As a researcher or coordinator, he has participated in research projects (funded by Greek and European programs) on the subjects of virtual reality, locative media, digital art and multimedia.

Senem Üstün Kaya graduated from Hacettepe University, English Language and Literature Department and completed MA at Hacettepe University English Language and Literature Department. Üstün Kaya received PHD degree from Ankara University, English Language and Literature Department. Üstün Kaya is the author of The Awakening of Angels in the House, Short Stories for ELT Classes, Edebiyatta Sonsuz bir Serüven: Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat, The Spirit of Dickensian Style, The Shadows of Authors and Women Behind the Pens and the co-author of Drama in ELT, Sosyal ve İnsani Bilimler, Güncel Araştırmalar ve Yeni Eğilimler and Researching ELT: Classroom Methodology and Beyond. Her current research interests include comparative literary studies, gender studies, Stylistics, Western and Turkish Literatures.

Şebnem Düzgün, Associate Professor of English Literature, is a lecturer in the Department of English Translation and Interpretation at Ankara Science University. In 2021-2022 she was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Southampton, under the research grant programme of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). She received her PhD degree in English Culture and Literature from Atılım University in 2017. Her main research interests include 18th- and 19th-century English literature, utopia, dystopia, science fiction, women’s literature, and gender studies. She is the author of book chapters on Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World and P. D. James’s The Children of Men, and of several scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles.

Taylor Ajowele Duckett is the Associate Director of Curriculum and Visiting Assistant Professor for the Center for Black Studies at Northern Illinois University. They received their PhD in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. They hold an M.F.A. in Creative Writing with concentrations in Poetry, Playwrighting, and Africana Studies from San Francisco State University and a B.B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Miami. Their academic research interests include: African Traditional Religions: Ifa, Lucumi, and Candomble, Black Performance Studies, Ritual, Healing, Embodiment, and Black Queer Studies.

Yunus Tuncel is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle and is the Editor-in-Chief of its electronic journal, The Agonist, which is published twice a year. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and teaches philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Towards a Genealogy of Spectacle (Eye Corner Press, 2011), Agon in Nietzsche (Marquette University Press, 2013), Emotion in Sports (Routledge, 2019), Nietzsche on Human Emotions (Schwabe, 2021), and Flames of Passion (Beadle Press, 2022) and the editor of Nietzsche and Transhumanism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017) and a co-editor of Nietzsche and Music (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022). His areas of research include art, competition, culture, myth, music, power, spectacle, sports, performance, and theater. He is interested in the fusion of art (all forms of art) and philosophy in various cultural formations and undertakes a peripatetic project called Philomobile.

Simone Pettine is a PhD Candidate in Lingue, letterature e culture in contatto and Teacher Assistant in Letteratura italiana at “G. d’Annunzio” University (Chieti-Pescara). His field of investigation includes Realism, Verismo and their relation with fantasy in the second half of the 19th century’s Italian literature. His other studies focus on specific authors of the 20th century, including Cesare Pavese, Mario Tobino, Dino Buzzati, Anna Banti and Francesco Biamonti.

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Product Details:

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-80135-148-5
Digital ISBN: 978-1-80135-149-2
Posthumanism Series: 8
Publisher: Transnational Press London
Published:  21.12.2023
Language: English and Turkish
Pages: 287
Binding: Digital and Paperback
Interior Ink: Black and White
Weight (approx.): 1.15 kg
Dimensions (approx.): 18.9 cm x 24.61 cm