Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 3.2 (Day 1)

D1-S3-A7

13 May 2026, 17:10

A7 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 3.2 (Day 1): Edebiyat Bilimi / Literary Studies

• Mahinur Gözde Kasurka (Marmara University)

Migration, Identity, and Cultural Crisis in Andrea Levy’s Small Island (D1-S3-A7)

Cahit Bakır (Marmara University)

13/05/2026, 17:10

Oral Presentation

Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004) makes readers confront various questions such as race, migration, belonging and non-belonging in a post-imperial framework. Set in different places and times, mainly in England and Jamaica both before and after WWII, the novel delves into the intertwined lives of a British (Queenie and Bernard) and a Jamaican (Hortense and Gilbert) couple whose lives...

Literature in Times of Crisis: Reimagining Migration in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (D1-S3-A7)

Dilşad Nilsu Güzeler (Hacettepe University)

13/05/2026, 17:30

Oral Presentation

This paper explores the role of literature in articulating and responding to global crises by analyzing Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West. In the novel, literature becomes a medium through which the migrant experience is both documented and reimagined, transforming geopolitical crises into affective and narrative ones. Exit West subverts traditional representations of migration by introducing...

Performativity as a Cause of Destructiveness in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl (D1-S3-A7)

Sara Hadaoui (Fenerbahçe University)

13/05/2026, 17:50

Oral Presentation

This paper examines Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl through the theme of identity construction and crisis, arguing that Amy Dunne’s destructiveness arises from the crises produced by the roles imposed on her by family, beauty standards, media, and marriage. Raised as “Amazing Amy”, a profitable product in her parents’ books, she learns to perform rather than develop a stable identity, initiating a...