THE CAR AS A THING: LATİFE TEKİN’S SWORDS OF ICE AND JOSÉ SARAMAGO’S “EMBARGO”
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2021
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From a transnational and trans-historical perspective, this paper lays stress upon thecar as a technological material and its fictional representations in Latife Tekin’sSwords of Ice (1989) and José Saramago’s “Embargo” (1978). Readers from differentcultures have been attracted to car narratives because they are “thing-driven” – basedon cars – as a representative of the matter which can speak for themselves, as it were.This study claims that the significance of the car in Tekin’s Swords of Ice andSaramago’s “Embargo” can be explained through the theoretical lens provided by thenew materialisms. In order to explore ideas on the subject-object interactions andelucidate the independent and autonomous life of things, this article will first brieflyrefer to the theories of new materialisms, and then read works of fiction by LatifeTekin, and José Saramago concentrating on the agency and power of the car as aquasi-object in both texts.
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Humanitas - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
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