@article{2017,title={The Resurrection of the Medusa in the Feminine Text: Didem Madak’s Poetic Discourse},abstractNode={Didem Madak is one of the representative female voices of modern Turkish Poetry flourished within the tradition of Western literature. With regard to the ideas raised by Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva, the paper reveals how Madak’s discourse undermines the closed signification system and puts the very language into question. The paper attempts to read Madak’s poetry as écriture feminine and problematizes her discourse punctuated with ongoing ruptures, eruptions, protrusions and various types of linguistic creativities that subvert and violate the symbolic order. Moreover, the paper reveals that Madak has produced a nonlinear discourse of melancholy with open-ended rhetorical questions as well as evasive metaphors, adopting a genuine ironic voice that undermines the binaries reinforced so far by mythologies. Thus the paper argues that Didem Madak’s poetry makes it possible to hear the undercurrent laughter of the Medusa while roaming on the fringes of écriture féminine.},author={Mustafa Zeki ÇIRAKLI-Nimetullah ALDEMİR},year={2017},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}