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dc.contributor.authorAkgün, Buket
dc.date2035
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-23T12:49:28Z
dc.date.available2020-04-23T12:49:28Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citation"Posthuman Female Identities and Cyborg Alices in Orphan Black." Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 36 (2019): 51-60. DOI: 10.32600/huefd.460248tr_TR
dc.identifier.urihttp://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/huefd/issue/45842/460248
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12627/405
dc.descriptionThis article is a revised and extended version of a presentation given at the 2017 National Popular Culture & American Culture Conference, San Diego, USA, 2017. I would like to thank Istanbul University Scientific Research Projects Unit (İstanbul Üniversitesi BAP Birimi) for funding support. Project number BEK-2017-24200.tr_TR
dc.description.abstractThis article scrutinizes the reception of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) in the television series Orphan Black (2013-2017) through the lenses of posthuman and feminist theories. It argues that, reminiscent of Alice’s coming of age anxieties, in the series the self-aware female clones, called the Leda clones, go through their own identity crisis, which can be traced in their near-death experiences followed by metaphorical rebirths and in their conversations with their sestras through mirrors or mirror-like objects. It focuses on these clones’ process of becoming self-aware with regard to the demands of the posthuman condition and the call of Rosi Braidotti for new ways of subject formation. It analyses the clones’ process of becoming through Julia Kristeva’s theories of the mirror phase, the symbolic, and the semiotic. It suggests that these self-aware Leda clones might be read as Donna J. Haraway’s cyborg Alices, in that they explore cyborg female identities in the twenty-first century. These clones eventually overcome their existential crisis and their anxieties over shifting identities through community bonding. Meanwhile, the allusions to the Alice books serve as a source of symbolism and structure for the series. Like the guidance and council of the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, they provide guideposts for the deepening, darkening, and branching Orphan Black universe to prevent the viewers from getting confused or lost as they follow the Leda clones deeper into the rabbit hole and through the looking glass.tr_TR
dc.description.sponsorshipIstanbul University Scientific Research Projects Unit (İstanbul Üniversitesi BAP Birimi). Project number BEK-2017-24200.tr_TR
dc.language.isoengtr_TR
dc.publisherHacattepe Üniversitesitr_TR
dc.relation.isversionof10.32600/huefd.460248tr_TR
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesstr_TR
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectPosthumanismtr_TR
dc.subjectMedia Studiestr_TR
dc.subjectRewritingtr_TR
dc.subjectScience Fictiontr_TR
dc.subjectCyborg Feminismtr_TR
dc.subjectIdentitytr_TR
dc.subjectFantasy Fictiontr_TR
dc.subjectOrphan Blacktr_TR
dc.subjectAlice in Wonderlandtr_TR
dc.subjectThrough the Looking Glasstr_TR
dc.subjectDonna Harrawaytr_TR
dc.subjectRosi Braidottitr_TR
dc.titlePosthuman Female Identities and Cyborg Alices in Orphan Blacktr_TR
dc.typearticletr_TR
dc.relation.journalHacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letterstr_TR
dc.contributor.departmentİstanbul Edebiyat Fakültesi, Batı Dilleri ve Edebiyatları Bölümü, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Ana Bilim Dalıtr_TR
dc.contributor.authorID0000-0003-4317-2200tr_TR
dc.identifier.volume36tr_TR
dc.identifier.issue1tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage51tr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage60tr_TR


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