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Remembering and writing the cycles of oppression and resistance in Ece Temelkuran’s The Time of Mute Swans
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Akdoğan, Şule (2021) Remembering and writing the cycles of oppression and resistance in Ece Temelkuran’s The Time of Mute Swans. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 62 (1). pp. 57-68. doi:10.1080/00111619.2020.1772191 ISSN 1939-9138.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1772191
Abstract
This paper argues that resonating with references to the 1980 coup and inspired by the 2013 Gezi Park Protests, Ece Temelkuran's The Time of Mute Swans creates a cross-temporal communication and gives insight into both the past and the present contexts of Turkey. The novel represents the past in ways to revisit, contest and reconstruct its hegemonic and silenced spaces. By doing so, it brings awareness to the formation of institutionalized forms of memory, knowledge, and discourses through which brutality, violence, oppression, inequality and injustice can be consolidated. Remarkably, while communicating the workings of such oppressions, the novel also cycles the acts of resistance. It shows that remembering, asking questions, demanding justice, and creating something different and beautiful are not merely personal contemplations but powerful alternative narratives manifesting the spirit of resistance, activism and solidarity. Accentuating the ways literature and acts of memory can facilitate hopeful cross-generational dialogs to prevent the brutal cycles of oppression, Mute Swans thus enhances our understanding of resistance.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 1939-9138 | ||||||
Official Date: | January 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 62 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 57-68 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/00111619.2020.1772191 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | Taylor & Francis Group, LLC |
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