Innovative Representations of Sexualities in Studies in English
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Bozer, A. Deniz
Yazgünoğlu, Kerim Can
Aykanat, Fatma
Ekmekçi, Çelik
Javanmard, Raziyeh
Salih, Ahmed Abdulsattar
Özmen, Özlem
Horzum, Şafak
Yılmaz, Zümre Gizem
Ağın Dönmez, Başak
Yılmaz Demirkaya, Neslihan
Erguvan, Mehmet
Kavruk, Fatma Ülkü
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This book comprises the papers presented by graduate students at the
conference entitled “Innovative Representations of ‘Sexualities’ in Studies in
English” organised by the Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies,
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, on 11 March 2015. These papers were
not only reviewed by referees but were further revised extensively and edited
by myself.
The objective in the organisation of the first graduate conference held
by the Centre and the publication of the papers presented at the conference
was to provide graduate students with an academic platform to present their
current research and discuss their ideas with their peers and professors.
The papers published in the book deal with different aspects of sexuality in
literature and non-literary media. The papers provide readings of sexuality,
which is a complex and multidisciplinary topic, not just through poetry,
fiction and drama but also as represented in feature films, animations and
TV series because of the dominance of visual culture in today’s societies.
Drawing on relevant theoretical material, mainly feminist and queer theories,
these papers explore and question how sexuality is represented in a variety
of mediums and how it functions. In addition, the ways in which sexuality
is conceptualised and constructed is interrogated mostly with the intention
of deconstructing essentialist notions of sexuality and identity formation. In
this postmodernist era in which sexual and gender identities are no longer
limited to two binary sexes, the papers invite the readers to reconsider their
understanding of sexuality. Along with non-binary understandings of both
sex (male, female, or intersex) and gender (man, woman, transgender, third
gender and so forth) even non-human sexualities are taken into consideration.
Furthermore, how sexualities are linked to hegemonic categories of identity,
such as nationality, race, class and gender is discussed.
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http://hdl.handle.net/11655/25225https://library.hacettepe.edu.tr/hubooks/index.php?fn=read&key=fcc4cb