Thousand Faces Of Silence: An Intertextual Reading Of Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic

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dc.contributor.authorDur, Ayşem
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-30T17:56:10Z
dc.date.available2025-01-30T17:56:10Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe power of silence in literature lies in its transcending and enriching characteristic which renders it possible to grasp a deeper meaning by way of telling the things that cannot be told by words. In this respect, born in 1977, Ilya Kaminsky uses polysemous silence as a narrative technique in his semi-autobiographic poetry collection, Deaf Republic published in 2019. Silence is primarily used as an instrument of insurgency by the townspeople who reject to hear consciously and revolt against the authoritarian government. With this unusual resistance, the meaning of silence expands. The ongoing power relations between the public and the state gets destabilized. Relatedly, stripped of its primary meaning in all the poems, silence becomes an important part of the dialogue and turns out to be a signicant component of the language. Another layer is that metamorphosing the concept of silence that has been used against them as a tool of oppression for centuries, women use it this time to raise their voices. Lastly, it is seen that in most of the poems, Kaminsky creates absences with various forms and once again silence takes its place in these absences, visibly loaded with meaning. Hereby, consciously refusing to hear with a kind of resistance that can be called an act of civil disobedience in certain aspects, the citizens resist against tyranny and thus silence gets positioned at the centre of the narrative, which allows the phenomenon of silence to be analysed with the aforementioned aspects. In this respect, the aim of this study is to analyse the phenomenon of silence in Deaf Republic as a multilayered eld of meaning with its theoretical dimensions.
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.ankara.edu.tr/handle/20.500.12575/92148
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAnkara Üniversitesi
dc.subjectSilence
dc.subjectResistance
dc.subjectPoetry
dc.subjectIlya Kaminsky
dc.subjectDeaf Republic
dc.titleThousand Faces Of Silence: An Intertextual Reading Of Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic
dc.title.alternativeSessizliğin Bin Yüzü: Ilya Kaminsky'nin Sağir Cumhuriyet Eserine Metinlerarasi Bir Bakiş
dc.typeArticle

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