A Study of mimicry in V. S. Naipaul’s the Mimic men and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s The bridge of the golden horn

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This thesis analyzes both V. S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men (1967) and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s The Bridge of the Golden Horn (1998) within the frame of postcolonial theory, aiming to evaluate the later novel utterly out of its context, by examining it against a postcolonial background. Highlighting the fact that there is no specific terminology to discuss the situation of the Turkish guest workers in Germany, Homi Bhabha’s concept of mimicry, which is initially created to approach the identity formation process of Indians in colonial times, will be attempted to be applied to the given novels, using Bhabha’s article entitled “Of Mimicry and Man”. This study aims to provide a postcolonial perspective to understand the situation of Turkish guest workers, who underwent a forced migration out of financial reasons in the 1960s to Germany, drawing examples from mimic men, who migrated to their former colonies for better business and educational opportunities. In the light of the analysis, the study concludes that Bhabha’s concept of mimicry should not be limited to the realms of postcolonialism and that it is applicable to examine the situation of the Turkish guest workers in Germany, as non-Western immigrants from non-colonial backgrounds.

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Emigration and immigration in literature., Postcolonialism in literature.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/25591

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D. Yapar Demirciler, “A Study of mimicry in V. S. Naipaul’s the Mimic men and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s The bridge of the golden horn,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2016.