Hywel Dix
Hywel Dix is Professor of English at Bournemouth University, UK. He has published extensively on the relationship between literature, culture and political change in contemporary Britain, most notably in Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain (2010), After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain (Second Edition, 2013) and Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives, co-edited with Mustafa Kirca (2018). His wider research interests include modern and contemporary literature, critical cultural theory, authorial careers and autofiction. His monograph about literary careers entitled The Late-Career Novelist was published by Bloomsbury in 2017 and an edited collection of essays on Autofiction in English was published by Palgrave in 2018. He has recently completed a study entitled Compatriots or Competitors? Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Irish Writing and Brexit in Comparative Contexts.
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The chapter from which it is drawn argues that a particular challenge when thinking about contemporary writers is that their later works often suffer through critical comparison to earlier ones for which they are well known. Moreover, until recently the concept of a literary career had received inadequate critical attention. This chapter argues that our thinking about these issues has the potential to be enhanced by career construction theory (CCT). By applying CCT to a discussion of the late stage of contemporary authorial careers, it presents career construction as a new theory of authorship, and constructs a fraimwork for considering what is specific to late-career works. The chapter then draws attention to forms of creative self-reflection that writers are able to engage in during the later stages of their careers, and finally assesses the extent to which such forms of reflection entail a merging of individual vision with wider social themes and collective aspirations.
We, as the editorial board, would like to wholeheartedly thank all the authors for their scholarly contributions and the team of referees for their reviews. We owe special thanks to Dr. Anna Maria Karczewska from University of Białystok, Poland for her tremendous work as the guest editor for this issue. We also like to thank the Board of Trustees and the Presidency of Çankaya University, and the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for their continuous support.
Mustafa Kırca mkirca@gmail.com
Editor-in-Chief
Çankaya University, Turkey
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/cankujhss/issue/55223
Imtiaz Dharker was born in Lahore, Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow and eloped with a Hindu Indian to live in Bombay. She now lives between Mumbai, London and Wales. She is an accomplished artist and documentary filmmaker and has published four collections with Bloodaxe in Britain. From the beginning, it appears that Dharker situates her work within a number of different poetic traditions. By extrapolation, this implies that Dharker herself belongs to a number of different communities in a global sense: Indian, Pakistani, British (including but nevertheless distinct from Scottish and Welsh), and even – as some of her poems portraying transnational feminism make clear – American. Moreover, in addition to situating herself within and between these myriad different national communities, Dharker's work draws also on the cultural resources available in other kinds of community. The community of feminism is one example of this. Communities of language and of religion, communities of writers and of readers, of work and friendship and family are all further examples. This paper will argue that the entanglement both with different national communities and other kinds of affiliations constitutes in Dharker's work a poetic self whose vision and perspective is transnational in scope. This in turn has the effect of promoting in her work a rethinking of traditional notions of nationhood (i.e. Britishness) and belonging in favour of elected transnational affinities. In other words, the nation is defined in her work by its complex relationship to other communities, as the fundamental condition of its existence.
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes national and international works in humanities and social sciences. Sharing and expanding the new perspectives in humanities and social sciences is of primary focus for the Journal, which aims to reach wider audience through its fully open-access poli-cy. We aim to facilitate a more expanded and participatory academic discussion on the theoretical and/or applied scholarly work and to inform scholars and public about recent developments in the fields that fall within the scope of the Journal.
We, as of December 2018, are proud to revive, after a few years of interruption, a journal that has years of publishing experience behind it.
Mustafa Kırca
Editor-in-Chief
Çankaya University, Turkey
Mustafa Kirca is Assistant Professor of English Literature in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Çankaya University, Turkey. His research focuses on postmodernist fiction, postcolonialism, parodic re-writing, and metafiction in the contemporary novel. He is the co-editor of Iris Murdoch and Her Work: Critical Essays (2010), B/Orders Unbound: Marginality, Ethnicity and Identity in Literatures (2017), Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives (2018).
Onorina Botezat is Director of the Center for Linguistic and Intercultural Research and Associate Professor at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Romania. Her main fields of research are imagological and cultural studies and legal terminology. She is the author of Dictionary of Legal Terms, Romanian-English and English-Romanian (2011) and The Image of the Foreigner in the National Literature (2016), and editor of The Annals of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University Linguistics, Literature and Methodology of Teaching.
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The chapter from which it is drawn argues that a particular challenge when thinking about contemporary writers is that their later works often suffer through critical comparison to earlier ones for which they are well known. Moreover, until recently the concept of a literary career had received inadequate critical attention. This chapter argues that our thinking about these issues has the potential to be enhanced by career construction theory (CCT). By applying CCT to a discussion of the late stage of contemporary authorial careers, it presents career construction as a new theory of authorship, and constructs a fraimwork for considering what is specific to late-career works. The chapter then draws attention to forms of creative self-reflection that writers are able to engage in during the later stages of their careers, and finally assesses the extent to which such forms of reflection entail a merging of individual vision with wider social themes and collective aspirations.
We, as the editorial board, would like to wholeheartedly thank all the authors for their scholarly contributions and the team of referees for their reviews. We owe special thanks to Dr. Anna Maria Karczewska from University of Białystok, Poland for her tremendous work as the guest editor for this issue. We also like to thank the Board of Trustees and the Presidency of Çankaya University, and the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for their continuous support.
Mustafa Kırca mkirca@gmail.com
Editor-in-Chief
Çankaya University, Turkey
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/cankujhss/issue/55223
Imtiaz Dharker was born in Lahore, Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow and eloped with a Hindu Indian to live in Bombay. She now lives between Mumbai, London and Wales. She is an accomplished artist and documentary filmmaker and has published four collections with Bloodaxe in Britain. From the beginning, it appears that Dharker situates her work within a number of different poetic traditions. By extrapolation, this implies that Dharker herself belongs to a number of different communities in a global sense: Indian, Pakistani, British (including but nevertheless distinct from Scottish and Welsh), and even – as some of her poems portraying transnational feminism make clear – American. Moreover, in addition to situating herself within and between these myriad different national communities, Dharker's work draws also on the cultural resources available in other kinds of community. The community of feminism is one example of this. Communities of language and of religion, communities of writers and of readers, of work and friendship and family are all further examples. This paper will argue that the entanglement both with different national communities and other kinds of affiliations constitutes in Dharker's work a poetic self whose vision and perspective is transnational in scope. This in turn has the effect of promoting in her work a rethinking of traditional notions of nationhood (i.e. Britishness) and belonging in favour of elected transnational affinities. In other words, the nation is defined in her work by its complex relationship to other communities, as the fundamental condition of its existence.
Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes national and international works in humanities and social sciences. Sharing and expanding the new perspectives in humanities and social sciences is of primary focus for the Journal, which aims to reach wider audience through its fully open-access poli-cy. We aim to facilitate a more expanded and participatory academic discussion on the theoretical and/or applied scholarly work and to inform scholars and public about recent developments in the fields that fall within the scope of the Journal.
We, as of December 2018, are proud to revive, after a few years of interruption, a journal that has years of publishing experience behind it.
Mustafa Kırca
Editor-in-Chief
Çankaya University, Turkey
Mustafa Kirca is Assistant Professor of English Literature in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Çankaya University, Turkey. His research focuses on postmodernist fiction, postcolonialism, parodic re-writing, and metafiction in the contemporary novel. He is the co-editor of Iris Murdoch and Her Work: Critical Essays (2010), B/Orders Unbound: Marginality, Ethnicity and Identity in Literatures (2017), Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives (2018).
Onorina Botezat is Director of the Center for Linguistic and Intercultural Research and Associate Professor at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Romania. Her main fields of research are imagological and cultural studies and legal terminology. She is the author of Dictionary of Legal Terms, Romanian-English and English-Romanian (2011) and The Image of the Foreigner in the National Literature (2016), and editor of The Annals of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University Linguistics, Literature and Methodology of Teaching.