Dr. Halil Ibrahim Arpa

Short Bio

Dr. Halil Ibrahim Arpa works at Cankiri Karatekin University in Türkiye. He is an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature in Western Languages and Literatures Department. He is in the Cluster with a scholarship funded by TÜBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye).

Selected Publications

• The Talisman, The Book of Saladin and Reluctant Orientalism, Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 10 (20), 206-215
• Postmodernism or Postmodernity?, Postmodern Trends in Arts and Literature, 23-38
• Subversion of Heart of Darkness’s Oriental Discourses by Season of Migration to the North, Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences 16 (3), 760-773
• ROLE OF TELEVISION IN CONSUMER SOCIETY IN NIGHT TRAIN AND ABOUT A BOY., Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi/Journal of Social Sciences 41 (2), 189-204
• M. NOURBESE PHILIP AND PROBLEM OF MOTHER TONGUE, The Journal of International Social Research 11 (58), 5-12

Project Description

His research project is Decolonial Hi/stories: Literary Subversion of Colonial and Post-colonial Historiographies. By this project, he will analyze coloniality of knowledge against Black and Islamic communities in the Global North and alternative epistemologies to the crisis of modernity in the Global South. His research is under mentorship of Prof. Dr. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni.