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Re-written Literatures: Transforming Texts, Transforming Cultures

Section Chair/ Abstracts, suggestions to:

Günseli Sönmez İşçi (Ege University) [BIO]

Email: gunseli.isci@ege.edu.tr

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ABSTRACT:

This section is designed to raise issues concerning the creative and critical use of re-writing. Re-writing here chiefly refers to those reproductions of earlier texts that apply strategies such as parody, adaptation, imitation or intervention. Re-writing may also embrace a variety of poetic and political projects associated with re-visioning. Such a venture is best realized in the re-written canonical texts that expose and explore the blind spots of colonial or patriarchal discourses giving voice to previously marginalized, silenced and unheard issues or characters. Perhaps unsurprisingly, therefore, many re-written literary texts derive their inspirational and narrative material from feminist or post-colonial theories. What mainly emerges from these re-written literatures, then, is the need to acknowledge the refreshing diversity of voices and visions within the knowledge system.

In keeping with the conference theme of Knowledge, Creativity and Transformation of Societies, this section welcomes papers that approach re-writing from feminist/post-colonial/post-structuralist perspectives.

 

ReferentInnen / Speakers / Orateurs

• Re-conceptualizing Reality: Atwood’s The Penelopiad, A Rewriting
  Mahinur Akşehir (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey)
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• Shakespearean World Re-visited: Ann-Marie Macdonald’s Re-presentation of Women in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
  Çiğdem Alp (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey)
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• The Strange Case of Ms. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde: Two Women of London, A Rewriting
  Aylin Atilla (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey)
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• Innovation through Revision: Woman Poets’ Narrative Strategies
  Ufuk Sepetçi Gündoğan (Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey)
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• Re-writing and Mystifying Wilde’s ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ by Tom Stoppard
  Nevin Yildirim Koyuncu (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey)
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• Discovering Robinson Crusoe’s Others: J.M.Coetzee’s Foe
  Ansi Sev (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey)
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• Xin vs. Heart: When East meets West
  Lily I-wen Su (Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University)
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• Re-written Literatures: Transforming Texts, Transforming Cultures
  Mati Turyel (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey)
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