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Moh Zaimil Alivin, Miftahul Huda
CONTESTING IGNORANCE AND REMEMBRANCE:
THE IDENTITY (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF TURKISH CHARACTERS IN THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL
Moh Zaimil Alivin, Miftahul Huda
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CONTESTING IGNORANCE AND REMEMBRANCE:
THE IDENTITY (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF TURKISH CHARACTERS IN THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL
Moh Zaimil Alivin, Miftahul Huda
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INTRODUCTION
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Humanities across Histories and Trajectories in the Glocal Contexts Humanities across Histories and Trajectories in the Glocal Contexts
Moh Zaimil Alivin, Miftahul Huda
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̵ ȋʹͲͳͶȌMythology, Taboo, and Cultural Identity in Elif Shafak's "The Bastard of Istanbul."
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he characters’ identity in the novel.
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The Construction of Legitimizing Identity
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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The Construction of Legitimizing Identity
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"The claims of the Armenians are based on exaggeration and distortion.
Come on. Some go as far as claiming that we killed two million Armenians. No historian in his right mind would take that seriously." (p.
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Since they won't join us in our recognition of the past, we are expected to join them in their ignorance of the past. (p. 184)
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"Of course, I do," Asya said. "How can I not know the end of a story I must have listened to at least a hundred times? (p. 132)
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Since they won't join us in our recognition of the past, we are expected to join them in their ignorance of the past. (p. 184)
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"Of course, I do," Asya said. "How can I not know the end of a story I must have listened to at least a hundred times? (p. 132)
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happened, and the next thing you know, it has never happened, hurray!
Every day we swallow yet another capsule of mendacity...." (p. 147)
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It's gone. No traces left behind...
There are no traces, no records, no reminiscences of the Armenian family who lived in that building at the beginning of the century. (p. 182)
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Every day we swallow yet another capsule of mendacity...." (p. 147)
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There are no traces, no records, no reminiscences of the Armenian family who lived in that building at the beginning of the century. (p. 182)
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"What will that innocent lamb tell her friends when she grows up? My father is Barsam Tchakhmakhchian, my great-uncle is Dikran Stamboulian, his father is Varvant Istanboulian, my name is Armanoush Tchakhmakhchian, all my family tree has been Something Somethingian, and I am the grandchild of genocide survivors who lost all their relatives at the hands of Turkish butchers in 1915, but I myself have been brainwashed to deny the Genocide because I was raised by some Turk named Mustafa!
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Her face faded from determination to resignation as she slowly bobbed her head and added: "Only an Armenian can understand what it means to be so drastically reduced in numbers. We've shrunk like a pruned tree.... Rose can date and even marry whomever she wants, but her daughter is Armenian and she should be raised as an Armenian." (p. 59)
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