Immigration and space elements in Orhan Pamuk’s novel Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık Cover Image

Orhan Pamuk’un Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık adlı eserinde göç ve mekan unsurları
Immigration and space elements in Orhan Pamuk’s novel Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık

Author(s): Veysel Lidar
Subject(s): Turkish Literature, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Orhan Pamuk; migration; İstanbul; space;

Summary/Abstract: In this article, migration in Orhan Pamuk’s novel ‘Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık’ will be discussed in migration aspects and phycology of migrants. Because of migration means a changement of place at the same time, its effects to the characters will be discussed, too. In this novel, Pamuk used a character, Mevlut Karataş and people around him who has migrated İstanbul from a village for describing their lifes in İstanbul as an immigrant. Beside this he also showed some changes in social and political life of Turkey by means of migration. Pamuk described migration as a way of getting wealthier life and its negativeness, especially cultural and psychological areas. In this article it will also discussed that their expectation from İstanbul and the results. In this novel the gap which is between rural and urban life is been detected writer.

  • Issue Year: 2/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 105-116
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish