Literature: Textual, Contextual, Conceptual Concerns in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Productions

Kuğu Tekin, a graduate from Atılım University, received her M.A. in English Literature in 2003 and completed her PhD at the Middle East Technical University in 2010. She is currently teaching at Atılım University in the Department of English Language and Literature. Her areas of interest are postcolonial literature, contemporary British fiction, immigrant literature and urban studies. She has published several articles and chapters in national and international journals and books.Seda Kuşçu Özbudak, a graduate of Gazi University, was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship in 2010, teaching Turkish as a foreign language at the University of Massachusetts. She received her M.A. from Ankara University in 2013 and completed her PhD at Gazi University in 2018. Since 2012, she has been a lecturer at Gazi University, also serving as the vice director of the Academic Writing Application and Research Centre. Her current research interests include audiovisual translation, translation of Turkish audiovisual products, subtitling on video-on-demand platforms, and audience research.

• Foreword and Dedication - Editors’ Biographies - Infinite Life Options through Multiple Universes in Matt Haig’s Sci- Fi Work Midnight Library - Where Does the Enemy Come From: The Representation of the Immigrant and the British in Simon Stephens’ Pornography - Matt Haig’s The Humans: The Use of Defamiliarization to Define the “Human” - From the Damsel in Distress to the Distressed Dude: Transgressing Gender Dichotomies in Howl’s Moving Castle - Bibi Khanum Astarabadi’s The Vices Of Men and Early Feminist Thought in Iran - The Case of PC Principal: Satirical Representations of Social Justice in South Park - From Rhyme to Crime: Postmodern Playfulness in Jasper Fforde’s The Big Over Easy - A Feminist Reading of Rupi Kaur’s milk and honey - Live Like Cockroaches: A Homeless Immigrant’s Struggle Leading to Stereotypification - Tom Murphy’s Alice Trilogy as a Drama of Nothingness - Authors’ Biographies