Mehmet Ali Çelikel

• Professor
• Marmara University

Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and Other Poems connects poetry with photographic illustrations by Julia Margaret Cameron. The book is one of the pioneering examples of illustrated poetry. Cameron had her friends and family members dressed in medieval clothes to pose for her and photographed them for Tennyson’s epic. However, when she willingl...

Salman Rushdie’s 2019 novel Quichotte is the story of a hero reimagined by Rushdie as a 21st century version of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. The novel opens in contemporary America where the 70-year-old protagonist Ismail Smile, who goes mad by watching TV, works as a travelling salesman for a pharmaceutical company called Smile Pharmaceutica...

Salman Rushdie's narrative style reflects a blend of traditional oral storytelling and postmodern literary techniques. This duality makes it challenging to categorize him strictly as either a traditional or postmodernist writer. His works, such as Midnight’s Children, exhibit fragmented storytelling akin to oral narratives, where the narrator frequ...

The deployment of humour and sadness together in postcolonial literature invites im- portant discussions on ambivalence. These two juxtaposing themes in postcolonial nov- els reflect not only the cultural clashes effectively, but also the emotional ambivalence of the characters. While the use of humour and sadness turns the anti-colonial novels int...

Postcolonial fiction and trauma are almost coalesced into one another as a result of the nature of postcolonial cultural condition. Trauma emerges as one of the most important and inevitable themes in postcolonial novels written, in particular, by the British authors of colonial origin. In Brick Lane, Monica Ali portrays the tragic destiny of Nazne...

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories which are more embedded in the social realities and human condition. This volume shows that theory...

Postmodernism as a cultural term has been in use since the mid-twentieth century. While a common use of the term refers to multiple cultural and economic conditions, it also suggests new artistic and literary forms. On the one hand, postmodernism is commonly considered as a reaction towards modernist movement in arts and literature, it is also rega...

Postcolonial discourse written in the aftermath of the colonial practice reverts the colonial discourse of the British authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries during which the colonial venture was in its highest peak. The colonialist discourse that used to be in the cultural centre of the literatures written in English marginalised the di...

Birinci Dünya Savaşında, Çanakkale Boğazı’nda Türk ve Britanya orduları arasında sekiz ay süren çarpışmalar boyunca, Anzak birlikleri olarak bilinen, Avustralya ve Yeni Zelanda birlikleri Gelibolu’da karargâh kurmuşlardır. Anzak askerler tarihe kişisel olarak tanıklık ederek günlükler tutmuşlar ve mektuplar yazmışlardır. 1915’teki Gelibolu muharebe...

Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, published in 2007, is a novel that focuses on the ideological standpoint of a young Pakistani man, Changez, who seeks for a solid standing ground in his own cultural origins after his educational and professional life in the US that westernized him fully. The novel, narrated within a frame story, is set...

After 1950s, with the beginning of decolonization, new forms of migrations have emerged. These occurred either from the newly liberated colonies to the imperial centre or from the imperial centre to the newly liberated colonies. Causing a high degree of cultural interaction and clash, these population flows have created in-between spaces in which b...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Liverpool, 2001.