“Safe Spaces of the Like-Minded”: The Search for a Hybrid Post-Ottoman Identity in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

Furlanetto, Elena

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“…Elena Furlanetto (2014) in Safe Spaces of the Like-Minded: The Search for a Hybrid Post-Ottoman Identity in Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul acknowledges Shafak's attempt at writing a novel to oppose the Kemalist goal of forgetting the Ottoman past and deliberately induce amnesia to construct a modern Turkish identity. Shafak provides a critique of the Kemalist regime and aims to revive Turkey's past of pluralism, peaceful coexistence, and diversity.…”

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Affiliations, Aversions and Assertions: Memory, Identity and Amnesia in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

Ahmad

2024

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The present study aims to investigate the nexus between memory, identity, and amnesia in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul. The proposed study will examine how collective amnesia inflicted by the state, aids in the erosion of historical memory of violence and inhumanity among its denizens. Memory of the past shapes a person’s life in a plethora of ways. It is a source of personal as well as collective identity. Memory travels across generations and links one’s past and future. It is created, destroyed, and recreated. The loss of memory or amnesia performs a crucial role in what one remembers, how one thinks of their self, and how one acts. The study contextualizes memory as an important source of one’s personal as well the collective identity. The loss of memory or amnesia performs a crucial role in what one remembers, how one thinks of their self, and how one acts. The study concludes that not everything can be remembered and not everything can be forgotten. After all, a little remembering and a little forgetting never hurt.

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Affiliations, Aversions and Assertions: Memory, Identity and Amnesia in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

Ahmad

2024

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“…However, there were at least two scholars whose research focused on identity. Furlanetto (2014) discusses the search for a hybrid post-Ottoman identity. Ameur and Kessal (2019) analyze the problem of hybrid cultural identity as found in the novel.…”

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Identity Negotiation in the Age of Global Migration in Exophonic Novels

Alivin

2021

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The vast changing of the cultural structure caused by globalization and migration has a complicated identity. A higher number of migrants from numerous parts of the world has arisen lately, especially from Middle Eastern and Muslim countries facing various conflicts. Negotiating identities, thus, becomes inevitable, particularly for migrants. Identity negotiation has been frequently raised as an underlying issue in early 2000s literary works. Such an era becomes a worth researching topic on migration as portrayed in exophonic novels. Exophony refers to writing and producing literary works in a language that is not one’s mother tongue. The article covers the analysis of novels written by exophonic writers: Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003), Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul (2006), and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). The analysis focuses on identity negotiation experienced by Muslim diaspora characters by employing Homi K. Bhabha’s cultural identity. This study reveals that identity negotiation often occurs in the context of power relations and can occasionally be hegemonizing. This notion is backed by the fact that the complexity of the identity negotiation process occurs not only at the intersection of opposed cultures or civilizations but also at the intersection of politics and power relations.

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The Momentary Glory of Banal Ottomanism

Mandaci

2022

Critical Readings of Turkey’s Foreign Policy

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“Safe Spaces of the Like-Minded”: The Search for a Hybrid Post-Ottoman Identity in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Affiliations, Aversions and Assertions: Memory, Identity and Amnesia in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

Affiliations, Aversions and Assertions: Memory, Identity and Amnesia in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

Identity Negotiation in the Age of Global Migration in Exophonic Novels

The Momentary Glory of Banal Ottomanism

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