The Dialogue between Cultures in the Novels of Bulgarian and Turkish “Migrant” Autors (Emine Özdamar, Feridun Zaimoðlu, Ilija Troyanow, Dimitar Dinev) Cover Image

Диалогът на културите в романите на български и турски автори „мигранти“ (Емине Йоцдамар, Феридун Заимоглу, Илия Троянов, Димитър Динев)
The Dialogue between Cultures in the Novels of Bulgarian and Turkish “Migrant” Autors (Emine Özdamar, Feridun Zaimoðlu, Ilija Troyanow, Dimitar Dinev)

Author(s): Snezhana Boycheva
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Novel, Comparative Study of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Turkish Literature, Culture and social structure , Migration Studies, Politics and Identity
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: dialogue between cultures; non-lieux; standard models; identities

Summary/Abstract: The basic link between the four authors, mentioned in the title of the present research, is the constituting of the dialogue between the cultures in the topos of ‘between’, ‘the border space’. Central to the plotline of the novels are the so-called ‘not-places’ (non-lieux, Nicht-Orte) (Auge), transtopoi (Foucault) - airports, railway stations, harbours, planes, trains, ships, refugee camps, hotels, vacation places, parking lots, gas-stations, shopping malls. „The open“ spaces are not the only local markers; they often turn into a main character in that type of literary texts. These are the spaces that question standard models of behaviour and thinking; that change identities, transfer and gather together different cultural standards.

  • Issue Year: 6/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 277-286
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English, Bulgarian