ACCEPTED PAPERS

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· Triangulated Narrative Patterns in Richard Wright's
"Native Son" and "The Outsider." Alzubi, Hasan. Mu’tah
University, (Jordan).

· How women can form their identity by overcoming the binary
opposition depicting them as “the other.” Arslanoğlu, Arsev
Ayşen. Dokuz Eylül University, (Turkey).

· Race Trial In Wright's Native Son. Ayan, Meryem. Celal Bayar
University, (Turkey).

· Could Christmas Be Merry in Jefferson? William Faulkner’s
treatment of the question of race in Light in August.
Bayindir,Turgay. Bogaziçi University, (Turkey).

· Discussing Race Through Trickster:A Study Of Toni
Morrison’s ‘Recitatif.’ Bilgin, İnci. Haliç University, (Turkey).

· Gender and Migration in Contemporary Slavic American
Literature. Blazan, Sladja. Humboldt University, (Germany).

· Vision and Vocation: Shamanistic Traditions in Black Elk
Speaks and Yaşar Kemal’s Çukurova Trilogy. Brandabour, Clare.
Dogus University, (Turkey).

· Race, Performance and National Identity in Thornton
Wilder's Our Town. Brewer, Mary F. De Montfort University,
(England).

· The Need for Strangeness: Captivity Narratives and Issues
of Race and Gender in Early America. Cairney, Christopher
Thomas. Dogus University, (Turkey).

· Reading Africana: The Americanization of Africa and Its
Diaspora. Clarke, George Elliott. University of Toronto, (U.S.A.).

· The FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE and the Decline of Ku
Klux Klan Organizations in Louisiana, 1964-1971. Drabble,
John. Koç University, (Turkey).

· Transnational ethnic dimensions in Wakako Yamauchi’s play
The Music Lessons. Erkan, Ayça Ülker. Ege University, (Turkey).

· “Activism, Globalization and American Studies.”
Estrada, Lawrence. Western Washington University, (USA).

· James Baldwin "Down at the Cross" in Istanbul. Fortuny, Kim.
Bogaziçi University, (Turkey).

· The African-American Sorrow Song and the Hebrew Lament:
A Comparative Study. Golland, Barish. Bogaziçi University,
(Turkey).

· Snow White Doesn’t Want to Wake Up: The Romance Reader
by Pearl Abraham and The Bearded Mother by Anne Halley.
Gökçen, Nilsen & Nazmi Agıl. Dokuz Eylül University, (Turkey)

· “These are the Things I Know are True”: The Quest for the
Mother’s Name in Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter.
Görey, Özlem. Bogazici University, (Turkey).

· Globalization, Interdisciplinarity, and American Studies:
The Refiguration of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Other Matters
Under the Sign of the Global. Gunn, Giles B. University of
California at Santa Barbara, (U.S.A.).

· To be added later.
Gülçur, Lamia. Bogazici University, (Turkey).

· Arthur Miller: The Stasis of Race and the Metastasis of
Seduction. Imam, Neamat. Aristotle University, (Greece).

· Neither Christian nor Heathen: New World African Muslim Slaves.
Junne, George H. University of Northern Colorado, (U.S.A.).

· Postethnic Performativity And Adolescent Female
Identity In Gish Jen’s Mona In The Promised Land.
Krasteva, Yonka. University of Veliko Turnovo,
(Bulgaria).

· Weaving New Identities in the Maya Diaspora: Lessons for
Comparative Ethnicity. Loucky, James. Western Washington
University, (USA).

· Statutory Rape Laws: The Protection of Young, White Womanhood.
O’Neil, Mary Lou. Istanbul Bilgi University, (Turkey).

· Two Films ("The Associate" and "Face Off") And The
Concept of "The Other." Öcel, Nilüfer. İstanbul University,
(Turkey).

· In the Trap of Race and Gender: Latina Feminism. Öztarhan,
Esra S. Ege University, (Turkey).

· Racial Hierarchy, The Manifest Destiny And The “White
Man’s Burden.” Parlak, Zafer. Boğaziçi University, (Turkey).

· Transnationalism and Gender Relations in Iain Softley's
The Wings of the Dove. Raw, Laurence. Başkent University,
(Turkey).

· Placing Race On Canvas: The Representation Of African
Americans In 19^th And 20^th Century American Art. Satılmış,
Demet & Ayça Çetin. Ege University, (Turkey).

· Black Intellectuals and Artists in France 1940-1945.
Serrano, Richard. Rutgers University, (U.S.A.).

· “Women, Cancer and the Globalization of American Medicine.”
Sills, Deborah R. University of California at Santa Barbara,
(U.S.A.).

· Testosterone Talk: Media and the Myths of Machismo in
David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Soran, Sırma.
Ankara University, (Turkey).

· Race, Spatial Processes, and Identity in Gloria Naylor’s The
Women of Brewster Place. Yavaş, Nesrin. Ege University,
(Turkey).