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Item Charlotte Bronte and Srpuhi Dussap: weaver mothers and palimpsest as grammer of female narration and plot(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.) Aktokmakyan, Maral.; Ceylan, Deniz.; Antikacıoğlu, Sosi.The use of double-talk becomes the female discourse in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Srpuhi Dussap’s Mayda. This method as female literary strategy, also termed the style of palimpsest, gives the woman writer the opportunity to tell/ write whatever she likes, thinks and believes and at the same time avoid male criticism and reduction. As nineteenth century writers, both Brontë and Dussap constructed their novels in styles which seem to comply with conventional plots, themes and literary rules. The striking characteristic of both novels is the subversion of the apparent obedience they advocate through similar plots and thematic alternatives they offer. Only in this way is woman’s self-fulfilment achieved and she is promoted as a subject as opposed to her imprisonment in the role of the object. This study aims to discuss the reasons for their application of the palimpsest and the way they are applied in Jane Eyre and Mayda.Item If this is life: rethinking the modern subject through the aporia of biopolitics(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.) Aktokmakyan, Maral.; Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu, Özlem.Drawing on the discussion of biopolitical modernity in the thoughts of Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt, this thesis focuses on the biopoliticized life as manifested in the works of Zabel Esayan‘s Among the Ruins, Hagop Mntzuri‘s The Places Where I Have Been, William Faulkner‘s As I Lay Dying and Joseph Conrad‘s Heart of Darkness. While biopolitics, on a broader level, points to the disruption of the Aristotelian designation of the category of life as bios and zoe, it specifically comes to mean the management of lives by new power mechanisms in ways that deprive them of human agency. The main figures in all four works are examined primarily through their reduction to such a state of bodily existence or of objecthood. In the first two chapters, I deploy Agamben‘s discussion of Homo Sacer in order to present how Esayan and Mnzuri‘s works interrogate biopoliticized life as is the case with the Ottoman Armenians when their lives were radically stripped of a human quality. The next two chapters rework Arendt‘s notion of Animal Laborans in the stories of the Bundren family and of the pair Charles Marlow and Mr. Kurtz, and examine the glorification of labor, instead of action. The homo sacer and homo laborans figures in these works all embark on a journey which, in each specific case, fails to provide self-formation in the Hegelian sense. Their writing of their biopoliticized lives turns out to be an ―auto-bio-thanato-graphy,‖ out of which emerges a rather singular mode of subjecthood.