MULTIPLE FEMINIST IDENTITY IN "BLACK MILK" BY ELIF SHAFAK
MULTIPLE FEMINIST IDENTITY IN "BLACK MILK" BY ELIF SHAFAK

Summary/Abstract: Theorists say that postmodern identity is a construct that can be continuously shaped and reshaped, according to free personal choice, or to new social roles that occur in life. Postmodern identity is therefore mainly a cultural construct, strongly influenced by multiple images, stories, cultural texts. Postmodern culture provides permanently new models or ideas that might be absorbed by a personality and change it, according to its own temperament and its own beliefs and values. Therefore postmodern identity is a multiple one, continuously changing, fact that implies also a permanent self-surveillance and self-knowledge. The present paper attempts to trace these issues in Elif Shafak’s autofictional novel Black Milk. On Writing, Motherhood and the Harem Within.

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