American Literature and Culture

Taking into account the material feminist theories of "agency," "matter," and "body," this essay examines to what extent material feminisms and trans-corporeality can be productive models for conceptualizing feminist ecocriticism, an anti-phallogocentric ecocritical theory that analyzes the complex dynamics of materia…

Transnationalism. Translocalism. Ecoglobalism. Ecocosmopolitalism. Posthumanism. Postcolonial Ecologies. Queer Ecology. Trans-corporeality. New Materialisms. Material Feminisms. 1 These are the new trends that noticeably characterize the current phase of ecocritical studies. They distinctively mark the field’s expansi…

The decolorization and mineralization of an azo dye, brilliant golden yellow (BGY, i¬max416 nm, i¥ = 7.81 x 103 Lmol-1 cm-1) by Fenton and photo-Fenton processes were investigated. The rate of decolorization is strongly dependent on the pH, initial concentrations of the dye, Fe(II) and H2O2. The effect of these para…

• MERYEM AYAN

How does a girl from Grundy, Virginia, become a successful writer? The interviews and profiles in Conversations with Lee Smith tell the story of one woman's discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential literary place. In this first book of interviews with Smith, she revels in character and sense of place as co…

John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, depicts the poverty of 1930s America during the “Great Depression” through the tragedy of the Joad family, who lost their home and land in Oklahoma and have to drive to California in the hope of finding employment and plenty like many other farmers. The no…

• LEVENT YILMAZOK

Conflicts over citizenship and military service became a central issue in Italian-American relations in the early twentieth century. The United States and Italy founded their concepts of citizenship on two different bases,jus soliandjus sanguinis. As a consequence of this difference and the swelling number of Italian…

• BAHAR GÜRSEL

İngiliz Psikanalistleri arasında yer alan ve Freud’un dürtü teorisinden etkilenen Melanie Klein (1882-1960), insanın kişilik yapısının, bebeklik/çocukluk çağında ilk olarak annesi ve sonrasında ailenin diğer bireyleri ile şekillendiğini ileri sürerek “nesne ilişkileri” kuramını ortaya koyar. Klein için nesne ilişkiler…

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İngiliz Psikanalistleri arasında yer alan ve Freud’un dürtü teorisinden etkilenen Melanie Klein (1882-1960), insanın kişilik yapısının, bebeklik/çocukluk çağında ilk olarak annesi ve sonrasında ailenin diğer bireyleri ile şekillendiğini ileri sürerek “nesne ilişkileri” kuramını ortaya koyar. Klein için nesne ilişkiler…

• NİLÜFER İLHAN

With her unfaltering dedication to fight against patriarchal convictions in Victorian Britain, Augusta Webster (1837-1894) is featured as a groundbreaking activist poet who grapples steadfastly with the problems of gender discrimination and dualistic constructions of womanhood. At the center of Webster’s feminist agen…

• DİLEK BULUT SARIKAYA

As a young reporter, Ernest Hemingway visited İstanbul and the Thracian part of Turkey between 29 September and 18 October 1922. During his stay, he closely followed the military and political consequences of the Great Offensive, which was a major stage in the Turkish War of Independence, and also witnessed at first h…

• HİMMET UMUNÇ

With her unfaltering dedication to fight against patriarchal convictions in Victorian Britain, Augusta Webster (1837-1894) is featured as a groundbreaking activist poet who grapples steadfastly with the problems of gender discrimination and dualistic constructions of womanhood. At the center of Webster’s feminist agen…