Papers by Dr. Zamire Izzetgil
The Theme of Exile in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life
Söylem, Apr 18, 2024
The concept of exile is extensively addressed in the field of literature as well as in different ... more The concept of exile is extensively addressed in the field of literature as well as in different disciplines of the social sciences. Exile is portrayed in a variety of fiction genres and has an essential impact on the works of authors from many historical, cultural, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds in the field of literary studies. Indian writers who have merged into the mainstream of English literature have also given considerable focus to the theme of exile in their literary works.
Günce Yayınları, 2024
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Exile and Russian Intellectual Response: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin, 2024
Russian first-wave exile literature portrays the experiences of Russian exiled intellectuals who ... more Russian first-wave exile literature portrays the experiences of Russian exiled intellectuals who were opponents of the ideology of Leninized Russia, or the Russia of Bolshevism and Bolsheviks. Numerous thousands of Russian intellectuals were forced to leave as a result of their country’s totalitarian leaders. For these intellectuals, Leninized Russia has become a dangerous place, even a prison. In Pnin, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov shows the lives of first-wave Russian intellectuals in exile and their responses. Through the main character, Professor Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, Nabokov tries to illustrate to his readers the path taken by many Russian exiles. He also intends to show how intellectuals in exile like Timofey Pnin wish to be a part of a social community and strengthen their sense of belonging in order to overcome loneliness and alienation in the new country. The author also shows how white exiles had difficulties in their new nations, particularly with regard to language, culture, adaption, and acculturation. Professor Pnin and other representatives of the first wave’s feeling of toska towards their homeland, pre-Revolutionary Russia, became stronger when they faced difficulties in the United States of America and when they felt inferior among other colleagues. They keep Russia, with its constraints and regimes, in their hearts and souls. They belong to pre-Revolutionary Russia, where they had a happy childhood in which their toska never ended. The study reveals that Russian intellectuals in exile like Professor Timofey Pnin may partially compensate their feelings of toska towards their home, pre-Revolutionary Russia, through writing. By doing this, they may motivate themselves to achieve peak experience and transform exile into an enriching experience. Moreover, the author demonstrates that being far away from his native land, Russia, allows Pnin to see political and social matters from a double perspective, with their pros and cons. Therefore, it has been determined that being away from his homeland provides the main character with a double perspective.
Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine Vladimir Nabokov’s protagonist, Professor Timofey Pnin’s exile experience and his response. The paper intends to show that Nabokov, through his main character, displays the fact that, despite the pain of being far from their homeland, for Russian intellectuals like Professor Timofey, the unwitting choice of exile becomes the right decision.
The Theme of Exile in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life, 2024
The concept of exile is extensively addressed in the field of literature as well as in different ... more The concept of exile is extensively addressed in the field of literature as well as in different disciplines of the social sciences. Exile is portrayed in a variety of fiction genres and has an essential impact on the works of authors from many historical, cultural, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds in the field of literary studies. Indian writers who have merged into the mainstream of English literature have also given considerable focus to the theme of exile in their literary works.
Uluslararası Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları, 2023
is one of the most well-known selfimposed exile authors of Indian and Caribbean descent. His lite... more is one of the most well-known selfimposed exile authors of Indian and Caribbean descent. His literary works, namely novels, are based on real-life individuals, historical figures, and events that have links to the Caribbean, India, Africa, and England. Naipaul, as a self-imposed exile writer, successfully articulated the problems, issues, and obstacles that displaced and exiled individuals from the Third World have encountered in a multicultural environment. The protagonist, Willie Somerset Chandran, a displaced individual of Indian descent, attempts to overcome issues that he encountered during the exile period. Through the protagonist, the author demonstrates how individuals from the Third World experience homelessness and rootness conditions. It reveals that, in fact, this situation did not impede these individuals from proceeding their way towards self-knowledge, selfdiscovery, creativity, and self-actualization. The purpose of this research is to examine exile experiences, their consequences, and their effects on the selfactualization process of the exiled protagonist, Willie Chandran. It also aims to take a look at the process of becoming familiar with the potential creative talents of the hero. As a last remark, the paper intends to show how exile offers the chance to view and explore issues from different angles.
Din Araşdırmaları Jurnalı (Azerbaycan), 2022
The concept of 'knowledge' is not a new phenomenon in the field of religious studies. It is defin... more The concept of 'knowledge' is not a new phenomenon in the field of religious studies. It is defined and interpreted differently in every religion. In Islam, the concept of 'knowledge' is used as the word علم( ْ ِ) and is mentioned 854 times in the Holy Quran. It has several variants in the form of a noun, verb, and infinitive. Generally, علم( ْ ِ) knowledge stands for feeling, recognizing, understanding, and comprehending. In Judaism, there are two words such as 'yada' and 'da'at,' which have a common root in the Semitic languages. The meaning of 'yada' and 'da'at' varies depending on the context. It appears six times in Psalm. In Christianity, the word 'knowledge' is used in the Bible, and the meaning of the word is to understand, to recognize, or to acknowledge. Knowledge, according to the Bible, is a gift from its creator, God. The gift of knowledge refers to the ability to know facts or details about something that could not have been known by natural means. The study intends to show how Islam, Christianity, and Judaism define and interpret the meaning of the concept of 'knowledge' within the framework of the Quran, Bible, and Torah. It discusses the significance of this research in revealing how the concept of 'knowledge' is approached in the specified religions in terms of etymological, epistemological, methodological, Din araşdırmaları 2 (9), 2022 82 and scope. This research will be examined under five subtitles: the etymology of the study under the first title, the purpose under the second title, the source of the study under the third title, the epistemology under the fourth title, and the methodology under the last title.
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Söylem Filoloji Sempozyum, 2024
William Shakespeare and Fyodor Dostoyevsky are outstanding authors whose oeuvres have been well-k... more William Shakespeare and Fyodor Dostoyevsky are outstanding authors whose oeuvres have been well-known all over the world for centuries. Their literary texts deal with the issues of the period as well as the problems of individuals who try to solve them. Each of their masterpieces includes moral values that have connections with evil and good, and the works are also associated with religious and, notably, biblical discourse and motifs. Two literary works that are selected for this study explicitly and implicitly make references to biblical allusions. Thus, both of the writers incorporate elements of intertextuality into their masterpieces, and, by doing so, they create intertextual connections with religious texts. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine religious motifs in light of Julia Kristeva’s intertextual theory and its elements, such as references, parables, quotations, allusions, and symbols. It also attempts to compare these selected literary works by focusing on verses from the New and Old Testaments, parables, and psalms. The study reveals that Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky’s references to the parables, biblical discourses, and verses lend credence to Julia Kristeva’s ideas on intertextuality, which maintain that texts are not solely the product of their authors but rather are synthesises of earlier ones.
Toni Morrison and Mircevat Ahiskali are two significant writers from
different ethnic backgrounds... more Toni Morrison and Mircevat Ahiskali are two significant writers from
different ethnic backgrounds. Each of them is playing an important role in
narrating the historical trauma of their communities, and their histories.
They tried to shed light upon the traumatic past of their ancestors through
the traumatic stories of their characters, Morrison and Ahiskali depicted all the horrors, traumas, and atrocities that their communities faced as slaves and exiled ones. Both of the novelists, based their novels on real stories from their community.
Thus, this paper tries to compare two novels, Beloved and Gürbetten
İniltiler Sürgün (Groan from Foreign Land Exile) by focusing on the
similarities between slavery and exile, through concepts of trauma and
memory. It also examines how slave and exiled people struggle for recovery from the traumas through their memories. And it intends to show the role of collective memory and collective trauma in the lives of the communities who forced to experience the harsh conditions of the slavery and exile.
Keywords: Memory, Trauma, Slavery, Exile, Morrison, Ahiskali
Резюме
Тони Моррисон и Мирджават Ахыскалы- два выдающихся писателя из разных этнических групп. Каждый из них играет важную роль в
описании исторической травмы их сообществ и их истории. Они
пытались пролить свет на травмирующее прошлое своих предков через травмирующие истории своих персонажей, Моррисон и Ахыскалы изобразили все ужасы, травмы и зверства, с которыми их общины сталкивались как рабы и сосланные. Оба романиста основывали свои романы на реальных историях своего сообщества.
В данной статье предпринята попытка сравнить два романа, Возлюбленная и Стон Издалека Ссылка написанные разными
романистами, сосредоточив внимание на сходстве между рабством и изгнанием, с помощью концепций травмы и памяти. Кроме того, было исследовано, как рабы и изгнанные люди борются за восстановление после травм через воспоминания. Одной из последних целей данной статьи является описание роли коллективной памяти и коллективной травмы в жизни людей, пытающихся выжить в трудных условиях рабства и изгнания.
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Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine Vladimir Nabokov’s protagonist, Professor Timofey Pnin’s exile experience and his response. The paper intends to show that Nabokov, through his main character, displays the fact that, despite the pain of being far from their homeland, for Russian intellectuals like Professor Timofey, the unwitting choice of exile becomes the right decision.
Conference Presentations by Dr. Zamire Izzetgil
different ethnic backgrounds. Each of them is playing an important role in
narrating the historical trauma of their communities, and their histories.
They tried to shed light upon the traumatic past of their ancestors through
the traumatic stories of their characters, Morrison and Ahiskali depicted all the horrors, traumas, and atrocities that their communities faced as slaves and exiled ones. Both of the novelists, based their novels on real stories from their community.
Thus, this paper tries to compare two novels, Beloved and Gürbetten
İniltiler Sürgün (Groan from Foreign Land Exile) by focusing on the
similarities between slavery and exile, through concepts of trauma and
memory. It also examines how slave and exiled people struggle for recovery from the traumas through their memories. And it intends to show the role of collective memory and collective trauma in the lives of the communities who forced to experience the harsh conditions of the slavery and exile.
Keywords: Memory, Trauma, Slavery, Exile, Morrison, Ahiskali
Резюме
Тони Моррисон и Мирджават Ахыскалы- два выдающихся писателя из разных этнических групп. Каждый из них играет важную роль в
описании исторической травмы их сообществ и их истории. Они
пытались пролить свет на травмирующее прошлое своих предков через травмирующие истории своих персонажей, Моррисон и Ахыскалы изобразили все ужасы, травмы и зверства, с которыми их общины сталкивались как рабы и сосланные. Оба романиста основывали свои романы на реальных историях своего сообщества.
В данной статье предпринята попытка сравнить два романа, Возлюбленная и Стон Издалека Ссылка написанные разными
романистами, сосредоточив внимание на сходстве между рабством и изгнанием, с помощью концепций травмы и памяти. Кроме того, было исследовано, как рабы и изгнанные люди борются за восстановление после травм через воспоминания. Одной из последних целей данной статьи является описание роли коллективной памяти и коллективной травмы в жизни людей, пытающихся выжить в трудных условиях рабства и изгнания.
Books by Dr. Zamire Izzetgil