PhD Project

Background

I am a PhD Candidate in Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at The University of Amsterdam. My PhD project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Mieke Bal and Dr. Murat Aydemir

I hold my MA degree in English Literature-Postcolonial Literatures from Yeditepe University in Istanbul. I also have my BA degree in English Literature from Istanbul University.

PhD Project : From National Allegories to Cosmopolitanisms: Transformations of Contemporary Anglo-Indian and Turkish Novels

The project examines the transformation of contemporary Turkish and Anglo-Indian novels from national allegories to sites of multiple belongings by way of a comparative analysis. Taking its cue from Franco Moretti’s paradigm on world literary system which consists of “a core, and a periphery”, and “simultaneously one and unequal,” it is argued that the selected novels as examples of the contemporary Anglo-Indian and Turkish novel are actually world texts whose thematic reference is not exclusively the nation-state, but the world system as a whole, thus testifying to the idea that in terms of “Third-world” novel writing there has been a shift towards the ‘core’. However, as this project accentuates, a shift towards the core entails a critical engagement with the ‘core’ as well.