Patron: President of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer

KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and
Transformations of Societies

Vienna, 6 to 9 December 2007

S E C T I O N S

 

Globalization, Transnational Literatures, and Cross-Cultural Understanding

Section Chair/ Abstracts, suggestions to:

Atilla Silkü (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey) [BIO]

Email: atilla.silku@ege.edu.tr

 
ReferentInnen / Speakers   >>
 

ABSTRACT:

Paul Jay states in “Globalization and the Postcolonial Condition” that “English has become in our own time less a national literature than a language in which people write from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds”. As he further claims, “cultures have always traveled and changed … and the effects of globalization … only represent … the inexorable change that occurs through intercultural contact”.

Thus, this section aims to study how globalization fosters cultural interactions and social transformations, and to discuss the role of transnational literatures in negotiating cultural differences and establishing a global cross-cultural understanding. Among the key issues of the section will be transnationalism, postcolonialism, globalization, cultural hybridity, and multiculturalism.

 

 

ReferentInnen / Speakers / Orateurs

  • Can wordplay go beyond borders?
    Alev Balci (Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir)
    ABSTRACT

  • A Writer without Borders: Grace Ellison’s An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem
    Füsun Çoban Döşkaya (Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir)
    ABSTRACT

  • Dealing with cultural differences in conference interpreting
    Seyda Eraslan (Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir)
    ABSTRACT

  • Garbage as the Global Metaphor of Human Imperfection
    A Transnational Study of Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills and Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things
    Yesim Ersoy (Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey)
    ABSTsRACT

  • The Question of Polygamy: Halide Edib’s Approach
    Pelin Güllübağ (Dokuz Eylul University)
    ABSTRACT

  • Postcoloniality, Knowledge, and Creativity in Buchi Emecheta’s Early Autobiographical Fiction: In the Ditch and Second Class Citizen
    Rezzan Kocaöner Silkü (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey)
    ABSTRACT

  • Victim of Colonization: Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
    Hafize Gül Koparaoğlu (Dokuz Eylul University)
    ABSTRACT

  • From Puerto Rican to Turkish Chiquita: Questions of Transnational Identity in Esmeralda Santiago's Turkish Lover
    Esra Coker Körpez (Eylül University in Izmir, Turkey)
    ABSTRACT


Patron: President of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer

KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and
Transformations of Societies

Vienna, 6 to 9 December 2007