IDENTITY AND MEMORY IN ELIF SHAFAK’S THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL
Keywords:
Shafak, novel, conflict, identity, memory genocideAbstract
The central topic of The Bastard of Istanbul is identity and how it relates to social memory in a heterogeneous society. The Bastard of Istanbul presents characters who have conflicting identities as Turks and Armenian Americans who keep denying on the one side and keep remembering on the other to show how Turkey forgot the social memory of the Armenian Genocide, which is thought of as the backdrop of Turkey's violent history.
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