Abstract
This article is an exploration of contemporary Turkish and Chinese-Indonesian literatures with regards to a mid to late 18th Century literary niche: the it-narrative. Thinking (noesis) back and forth between centuries and different literary genres makes (poiesis) the conversation possible, which addresses the socio-literary imagination of the last four centuries. The authors re- examine the genre of it-narrative outside 18th Century studies and reassess the encounter of Turkish author Orhan Pamuk and Chinese-Indonesian author Alberta Natasia Adji within the socio-cultural and historico-political context of modern Turkey and Indonesia. The question is how Pamuk’s use of prosopopoeia in his 1998 novel Benim Adım Kırmızı [My Name is Red] influences Adji’s decision to use the 18th Century it-narratives in her 2019 short story I am Her Bracelet.
RAS ID
42652
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
2021
School
School of Arts and Humanities
Publisher
Australasian Association of Writing Programs
Comments
Karali, S. N., & Adji, A. N. (2021). Circulation of Orhan Pamuk’s Benim Adım Kırmızı [my name is red] in contemporary Chinese-Indonesian literature. TEXT Special Issue, 63, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.29723