Canavarların Vaatleri: Türkçe Feminist Spekülatif Kurmacaya Musallat Olanlar (2025) [The Promises of Monsters: Specters of Turkish Feminist Speculative Fiction] offers a timely intervention into Turkish literary criticism by bringing together questions of archive, ethics and representation through the figure of the monster. Ezgi Hamzaçebi mobilizes Donna Haraway’s concept of “the promises of monsters” as her central analytical framework and examines twelve texts spanning from 1923 to 2018 to illustrate how marginalized bodies, identities, and modes of existence emerge in these texts. While Canavarların Vaatleri successfully makes an alternative feminist archive visible, its analytical clarity is at times weakened by the delayed clarification of its key analytical concepts. Despite these limitations, this book introduces new critical pathways in Turkish literary criticism by mobilizing the monster figure as an ethical and political lens.
