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At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi

Cilt: 24 Sayı: 2 30 Haziran 2026
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At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi

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This article examines monstrosity as a social product shaped by conformity rather than as an inherent or natural condition. Focusing on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818), Doris Lessing’s Ben, in the World (2000), and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013), it investigates how social norms regulate recognition and determine who is accepted as human. The analysis shows that physical and behavioural difference, together with moral expectation, functions as a mechanism of exclusion. Through close reading, the article argues that these figures seek recognition by adopting human social and ethical codes, a process whose limits are exposed through a posthumanist lens. Their repeated rejection reveals how rigid regulatory systems interpret deviation as danger and produce ethical abandonment. By examining scientific ambition, alienation, and distorted justice, the article challenges classificatory frameworks that separate the human from the nonhuman and moral legitimacy from deviance, presenting monstrosity as a critical site where the limits of social inclusion become visible.

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

30 Ocak 2026

Kabul Tarihi

27 Nisan 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Cilt: 24 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Aslantaş, H. B., & Şentürk, S. (2026). At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 24(2), 919-933. https://doi.org/10.18026/cbayarsos.1876906
AMA
1.Aslantaş HB, Şentürk S. At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2026;24(2):919-933. doi:10.18026/cbayarsos.1876906
Chicago
Aslantaş, Hatice Buket, ve Selçuk Şentürk. 2026. “At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi”. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 24 (2): 919-33. https://doi.org/10.18026/cbayarsos.1876906.
EndNote
Aslantaş HB, Şentürk S (01 Haziran 2026) At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 24 2 919–933.
IEEE
[1]H. B. Aslantaş ve S. Şentürk, “At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi”, Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 24, sy 2, ss. 919–933, Haz. 2026, doi: 10.18026/cbayarsos.1876906.
ISNAD
Aslantaş, Hatice Buket - Şentürk, Selçuk. “At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi”. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 24/2 (01 Haziran 2026): 919-933. https://doi.org/10.18026/cbayarsos.1876906.
JAMA
1.Aslantaş HB, Şentürk S. At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2026;24:919–933.
MLA
Aslantaş, Hatice Buket, ve Selçuk Şentürk. “At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi”. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 24, sy 2, Haziran 2026, ss. 919-33, doi:10.18026/cbayarsos.1876906.
Vancouver
1.Hatice Buket Aslantaş, Selçuk Şentürk. At the Limits of Inclusion: Rethinking Monstrosity in Shelley, Lessing, and Saadawi. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 01 Haziran 2026;24(2):919-33. doi:10.18026/cbayarsos.1876906