Year 2018 – Volume 10 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Esra SARIOĞLU Dates: 1 January 2009 This essay offers a theoretical lens, through which non-heteronormative attachments in Coetzee’s writing might be uncovered, a lens sensitive to feelings and affective intensities animating the intimacy between self and other. This new interpretive possibility, inspired by Lauren Berlant’s concept of minor intimacy 1998 , reckons with the modes of attachment and belonging that flourish in the shadow of heteronormative intimacies. This essay specifically explores melancholy, desire, and longing that appears throughout Coetzee’s autofictional trilogy Scenes from Provincial Life. [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Feyza SOLMAZ Dates: 1 January 2009 Translation Criticism of Gore Vidal’s The City and The Pillar through Queer Culture and Camp Talk Translation Human rights, gender, minority cultures and groups that were invisible in translation with the dominance of Anglo-Saxon-European centered practices and language have became visible with the upcoming of target-oriented translation studies into practice. Being among the focus centers oftranslation theories after 1980’s, gender and queer translation issues have became major issues and visible through socio-political and linguistic fields in the 1990’s. Shaped after [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Alev ÖZKAZANÇ, Özkan AGTAŞ  Dates: 1 January 2009 Hate speech continues to occupy an uncanny space between politics and law. The urgency of the demand for protection from law against the attacks of hatred is getting more acute alongside the anxiety of getting lost in the conservative labyrinths of law. This dilemma and ambigiousness itself is enough to rethink the hate speech outside the domain of law into which it is rapidly dragged. In this article we aim to deepen this debate with reference to Judith [...]