Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, sa.73, ss.313-327, 2026 (Hakemli Dergi)
Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story (2019) reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) for contemporary readers by addressing twenty-first-century anxieties about gender, identity, and embodiment in a technologically driven world. Blending historical, speculative, and contemporary narratives, the novel offers multiple perspectives that explore the fluidity and transformation of subjectivity in the face of scientific advancement. This study aims to read Frankissstein through Rosi Braidotti’s theory of nomadic subjectivity to explore how identity is constructed in a posthuman context where traditional boundaries of gender, subjectivity, and the human experience are destabilised. Braidotti’s notion of the nomadic subject, which is characterised by hybridity, mobility, and resistance to essentialist categorisations, provides a critical framework for understanding the transitional identities portrayed in the novel. Ultimately, this study foregrounds literature’s capacity to theorise posthuman subjectivity and engage with contemporary cultural anxieties related to this condition. In doing so, it aims to foreground the continued relevance of literary texts in navigating and critically reflecting upon the ethical, philosophical, and existential questions arising from rapid technological change.