Dissociative syndromes and identity conversion: The narrative personae in the novel Variations for Ibn Pajko by Olivera Nikolova
Dissociative syndromes and identity conversion: The narrative personae in the novel Variations for Ibn Pajko by Olivera Nikolova

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we will start from the premise that traumatic identity conversion is sensitive to psychological and social dissociative identity syndromes, which may be observed through the narrative personae in literature. The interpretation will focus on a novel that deals with the subject of cultural hybridisation of identity in light of these dissociative phenomena – Variations for Ibn Pajko: A Triple Novel (2000) by the distinguished Macedonian writer Olivera Nikolova (b. 1936). This novel reflects the dominant aspects of cultural conversion (religious, social, ethnic, and linguistic), which are characteristic of the particular Ottoman Balkan chronotope of the city of Skopje around the turn of the sixteenth century.

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