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                                                                                    <journal-title>Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2757-9999</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2822-468X</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Association for Thought and Literary Studies</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.64957/nesir.1935068</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Modern Turkish Literature</subject>
                                                            <subject>Comparative and Transnational Literature</subject>
                                                            <subject>Literary Studies (Other)</subject>
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                                                            <subject>Modern Türk Edebiyatı</subject>
                                                            <subject>Karşılaştırmalı ve Ulusötesi Edebiyat</subject>
                                                            <subject>Edebi Çalışmalar (Diğer)</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Canavarların Vaatleri:  Türkçe Feminist Spekülatif Kurmacaya Musallat Olanlar: Ezgi Hamzaçebi. Metis Yayınları, 2025. 320 pp.: ISBN-13: 9786053164326</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>Canavarların Vaatleri:  Türkçe Feminist Spekülatif Kurmacaya Musallat Olanlar: Ezgi Hamzaçebi. Metis Yayınları, 2025. 320 pp.: ISBN-13: 9786053164326</trans-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4154-7216</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Altan</surname>
                                    <given-names>Ege</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20260422">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>22</month>
                    <year>2026</year>
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                                                    <issue>10</issue>
                                        <fpage>293</fpage>
                                        <lpage>295</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20260403">
                        <day>04</day>
                        <month>03</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20260404">
                        <day>04</day>
                        <month>04</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2021, Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>Canavarların Vaatleri: Türkçe Feminist Spekülatif Kurmacaya Musallat Olanlar (2025), canavar figürü üzerinden arşiv, etik ve temsil meselelerini bir araya getirerek Türk edebiyat eleştirisine zamanlı bir müdahale sunar. Ezgi Hamzaçebi, Donna Haraway’in “canavarların vaatleri” kavramını temel analitik çerçevesi olarak kullanır ve 1923’ten 2018’e uzanan on iki metni inceleyerek marjinalleştirilmiş bedenlerin, kimliklerin ve varoluş biçimlerinin bu metinlerde nasıl ortaya çıktığını gösterir. Canavarların Vaatleri, alternatif bir feminist arşivi görünür kılma konusunda başarılı olsa da temel kavramların metinde geç açıklanması analitik netliği zaman zaman zayıflatır. Buna rağmen kitap, canavar figürünü etik ve politik bir mercek olarak kullanarak Türk edebiyat eleştirisine yeni eleştirel açılımlar sunar.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Canavarların Vaatleri: Türkçe Feminist Spekülatif Kurmacaya Musallat Olanlar (2025) [The Promises of Monsters: Specters of Turkish Feminist Speculative Fiction] offers a timely intervention into Turkish literary criticism by bringing together questions of archive, ethics and representation through the figure of the monster. Ezgi Hamzaçebi mobilizes Donna Haraway’s concept of “the promises of monsters” as her central analytical framework and examines twelve texts spanning from 1923 to 2018 to illustrate how marginalized bodies, identities, and modes of existence emerge in these texts. While Canavarların Vaatleri successfully makes an alternative feminist archive visible, its analytical clarity is at times weakened by the delayed clarification of its key analytical concepts. Despite these limitations, this book introduces new critical pathways in Turkish literary criticism by mobilizing the monster figure as an ethical and political lens.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Canavar figürü</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  feminist kuram</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  spekülatif kurmaca</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  alternatif arşiv</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  temsil politikaları</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  etik</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Monster figure</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  feminist theory</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  speculative fiction</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  alternative archive</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  politics of representation</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  ethics</kwd>
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                                    <ref id="ref1">
                        <label>1</label>
                        <mixed-citation publication-type="journal">Haraway, Donna J. 2004. “The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others.” The Haraway Reader içinde, 63–124. Routledge.</mixed-citation>
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