Yuzmukhametova L. N.

Emigration, Trauma and Woman in Elif Shafak’s Novel Honor. Pp. 151–155.

UDC 821.111-31.09«20»

DOI 10.37724/RSU.2024.84.3.017

 

 

Abstract. The British and Turkish writer Elif Shafak is one of the most prominent multicultural authors in contemporary British fiction. She has won prestigious literary awards in a relatively short period of time and was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize in 2019. The relevance of this study is to explore Elif Shafak’s contribution to the development of multicultural British literature and Western literature. It is known that today people from different parts of the world with their unique cultural backgrounds, integrating into the Western cultural and social paradigm, create interesting texts, unique samples of verbal art. The purpose of the study is to analyze the novel Honor in the context of the feminist agenda, and also, focusing on the theme of emigration, on various kinds of traumas associated with it, relations of the East and the West. In the novel, the problems of racial and gender equality, emigration, confrontation between East and West, outdated dogmatic norms of morality that lead to tragic consequences are highlighted in the context of the theme of trauma, post-traumatic syndrome. The paper focuses on the theme of trauma inherent in patriarchal societies, which is particularly relevant. It is primarily connected with the feminist issue and the ethical aspects. In recent years, this concept has become a particularly active part of academic discourse in various studies in all corners of the world. Elif Shafak’s texts provide rich material for studying the nature of this phenomenon not only within the framework of literary analysis but also in interdisciplinary scholarship.

 

Keywords: E. Shafak, emigration, trauma, women’s rights, racism, East — West, multicultural British novel.

 

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