INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF “OTHER(NESS)” DISCOURSES AS COUNTER-MEMORY OF THE REPRESSED ONES IN LITERARY NARRATIVES IN THE SOCIETY OF TÜRKİYE

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2026-4-27

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Dutlu, Didem

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Memory studies, as a prominent research area, examine how individual and collective memory is shaped, transmitted, and represented. This field of study investigates the ways in which social and/or individual traumas, identity, and history are remembered. This dissertation views memory not as simply a representation of past but a constitutive domain transforming the order of present and shaping the possible formations of future since the act of remembering, inherent to memory, can be political as active participation in the “other’s” existence and can show political performativity towards hegemonic legitimization. Seeking performative remembering within literary narratives, this thesis examines how narratives can be reconstituted as counter- memory opposing hegemonic memory narratives and discourses of remembrance. Precisely, it traces repressed subjects’ experiences in society of Türkiye at the intersection of multiple factors including religion, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and language in literary narratives. Accordingly, it undertakes excavation of discursive struggle against forgetting through the selected authors as speaking subjects (Bilge Karasu, Mehmed Uzun, Yıldız Ramazanoğlu). Fundamentally, the study aims toiv examine narratives and silences reconstructed by individual memory, being attempted to be erased and silenced, upon Foucauldian discourse analysis. Therefore, it asserts that hegemonic memory is shaped by power relations, and silent and implicit memories in literary narratives form the foundation of today’s political imagination and social resistance arena. Consequently, it argues that marginalized and excluded groups can establish counter-memory through certain excavation codes based on intersectionality of suppression, thereby creating fractures in hegemonic memory and making themselves re-visible and re-audible in their objections.

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counter-memory, Foucauldian discourse analysis, hegemonic memory, intersectionality, literary narrative

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/119097

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis