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OF MESTIZA CONSCIOUSNESS AND CULTURAL SCHIZOPHRENIA: INGLOURIOUS BASTARD OF TURKISH LITERATURE IN GÖLGELER VE HAYALLER ŞEHRİNDE

This article analyzes Murat Gülsoy's approach to intellectual as one of the most controversial topics in Turkish literature in his novel titled Gölgeler ve Hayaller Şehrinde, comparatively with Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino.Tarantino’s portrayal of the holocaust with different fiction is only the starting point of the analysis. Throughout this novel, Gülsoy questions the criticisms on Turkish intellectual, who has been an image of the other in Turkish literature, building a gateway between the mestiza consciousness of intellectual and our consciousness.The fact that the main character of the novel, Fuat, opens his heart to the reader transparently and sincerely, almost transforming his mestiza consciousness into a mirror in which the reader can watch himself/herself. The author can capture this sincerity and transparency thanks to the epistolary novel.This article claims that Murat Gülsoy objects to the intellectual chosen as the scapegoat for our modernization story in Turkish literature.



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Gölgeler ve Hayaller Şehrinde, intellectual, mestiza consciousness, cultural schizophrenia
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