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Article Representations of Women : Gender Relations and The Emergence of The Processive Female Subject in Nezihe Meriç’s Hayriye and William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily(Littera, 2010) Gültekin, LerzanThe aim of this study to analyze, compare and contrast the representations of the two heroines in the two short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Hayriye” (an eponymous title) by a contemporary, Turkish woman writer Nezihe Meriç (1925-2009) from French feminist perspectives in terms of gender relations. The representations of the heroines, Emily and Hayriye, are analyzed in terms of gender relations from French feminist perspective, referring to the theories of Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva. The transgressive attitude of both heroines who subvert patriarchy have been analyzed in terms of “laughter”, subject-in-=process, abject, jouissance, mimesis and the concept of the other, associated with body as a body language through which women exert power and constitute themselves as processive subjects to influence others such as Meriç’s heroine, Hayriye who influences all her neighbours in the story. The depiction of the two heroines from two different perspectives, namely, patriarchal and female, have also been analyzed and emphasized in the study.Article Identity Crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s the English Patient(2015) Gültekin, LerzanThe aim of this paper is to analyze identity crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient from a postcolonial perspective through the concept of nationalism and national identity, emphasizing cultural, psychological and physical displacement due to colonization, travelling, exploration and space / place (cartography), referring to the theories and views of Benedict Anderson, Homi Bhabba, Franz Fanon, Edward Said, and so on. The paper will mainly focus on the erasure of the national identities and selves of a group of European explorers, scientists and spies, including the colonized Kip, an Indian, serving as a bomb defuser in the British Army. Even though these scientists’ mission is to map the desert, they can hardly achieve it. The desert is uncontrollable and unreliable because of sand storms. Its surface changes rapidly and one can be lost forever. In other words, the desert is the metaphor of their unreliable national identities that are fragmented and varied because of their traumatic personal experiences in this alien landscape and culture. The paper will emphasize the fragility of identities and selves even for those who represent European civilization and Imperial Rule as hegemonic powers together with the colonized Kip who is shaped by these powers as a hybrid identity.
