Henning Mankell’in Ölümün Karanlık Yüzü Adlı Romanında Yabancı Olarak Öteki
The Other as a Stranger in Henning Mankell’s Novel Ölümün Karanlık Yüzü

Summary/Abstract: According to Bauman, a stranger is neither an enemy nor a friend. The stranger is marginalized as a third category, the stranger is unwanted; perceived as a threat to the social order. This study presents a reading of the alienation of the foreigner in Henning Mankell’s novel, Ölümün Karanlık Yüzü, about the presentation of immigrants as the foreign other. The novel, which was written in a period when Sweden received intense immigration and on the other hand, increased xenophobia, presents a fiction about the construction of the foreign category. The stranger, who is separated from society in the context of us and the other, is evaluated through the perspective of immigrants in the novel. For this reason, the foreigner who is marginalized in the novel chosen within the scope of the study is evaluated within the framework of Bauman’s views on the phenomenon of foreigner.

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