Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TURK DILI VE EDEBIYATI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF TURKISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, sa.3, ss.637-656, 2024 (ESCI)
As an alternative to the Anthropocene marked by words/images, mind/body, symbolic/semiotic, or human/nonhuman binary demarcations, Deniz Gezgin's novel titled YerKu & scedil;A & gbreve;& imath; (2017) opens the door to a post-anthropocentric space portraying the fictionality of hierarchical categories. The novel's nonnormative subjects delimited overlooked by the denial of a unique voice plunge into salt on the way of being purified from the teachings of modernity fragmenting them and head towards nowhere implied to be remaining as still uninvaded by the Anthropos. Little girl Moy, who has lived all her life on her deathbed as being confined to walls surrounded by the gaze of stuffed animals, each of which is the work of her father, Asil Derbent & ccedil;i, and who is discarded even before her death, being stigmatized as "mentally unstable," the wounded bird & Scedil;uri, separated from the sky due to its sticky wings covered with oil, "something from everything" Hagrin that confronts us almost as a reaction against the idea of Oneness and stands at animal-plant- human intersection, and the barking deer Cice that flickers between absence and presence, point to human-nature intertwinement and relationality through eluding the all categorical definitions assigned to them, during their journey to this unknown space, somewhere at life-death intersection. In this way, with their attempt for Becoming, the characters who are codified as the other by the anthropocentric narrative due to their difference, unravel from the discourse overlooking and passivating them and make visible infinite possibilities in life. In this vein, the study that takes the unravelling of the characters on the path of nowhere and the processes of their regeneration as the portrayal of human-nature continuum or relationality, consults such theoretical concepts as Rosi Braidotti's concept of becoming-imperceptible which is traced to posthuman theory of death and Stacy Alaimo's concept of transcorporeality.