“Safe Spaces of the Like-Minded”: The Search for a Hybrid Post-Ottoman Identity in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul
Through the representation of two cafés, Elif Shafak’s 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul explores the function and significance of the Ottoman empire in the ongoing search for Turkish identity in the globalized era. It is Shafak’s contention that the former imperial Other can no longer be denied ad...
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| Argitaratua izan da: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Hizkuntza: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | Through the representation of two cafés, Elif Shafak’s 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul explores the function and significance of the Ottoman empire in the ongoing search for Turkish identity in the globalized era. It is Shafak’s contention that the former imperial Other can no longer be denied admission into the democratic, modern Self of the Turkish nation. |
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