The Third Woman: A novel and essay on political alienation and Western intervention in the Middle East

在我提出的研究中，我将根据我作为一名女记者在土耳其的经历创作一部原创文学小说。这部小说将探讨西方干预中东的主题，以及耻辱、政治疏离和现代新闻业的衰落等主题。通过实践主导的方法，我希望用小说来表现对身份和自我概念的质疑，同时生活在一个受你自己的外交政策影响的国家。这项研究将是实践主导的，我的最后一部长篇小说的创作将得到一篇15,000字的评价性文章和对写作过程的学术反思性评论的支持，这将仔细审查构思、开发和修改该项目所采用的实际方法。我提议的小说以叙利亚内战期间的土耳其加济安泰普为背景。这些创造性的工作将通过对该地区的历史、叙利亚内战对当地和外国社会的政治和影响的研究，以及自赛克斯-皮科协议以来西方干预中东的更大背景以及21世纪初新闻业的衰落来提供信息。这部小说以女性的视角，由一位女性作家创作，将受到当代文学创新的启发，特别是汽车小说的兴起，混合写作和海外生活小说中对异化的描绘。

For my proposed research, I will produce an original literary novel based on my experiences as a female journalist in Turkey. The novel will explore the topic of Western intervention Middle East, alongside themes of shame, political alienation and the decline of modern journalism. Through a practice-led approach, I hope to use fiction to represent the questioning of identity and one's notion of self while living in a country effected by the foreign policy of your own.This research will be practice-led, in which my final creative work of a full-length novel will be supported by a 15,000 word evaluative essay and scholarly informed reflective commentary on the writing process, which will scrutinise the practical approach taken to conceive, develop and revise the project. My proposed novel is set in Gaziantep, Turkey during the Syrian Civil War. The creative work will be informed by research into the history of the area, the politics and impact of the Syrian Civil War on local and foreign society, as well as the larger context of Western interventions in the Middle East since the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the decline of journalism in the early 21st century. Written from a female perspective, by a female writer, the novel will be informed by the current innovations in contemporary literature, particularly the rise of auto-fiction, hybrid writing and depictions of alienation in living abroad novels.