An Analysis of Elif Şafak's The Saint of Incipient Insanities as an International Novel

2007-04-01
Öztabak Avcı, Elif
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Elif Oztabek-Avci e Saint of Incipient Insanities is Elif Şafak’s first novel written in English. It is also the first novel in English written by a contemporary Turkish writer. 1 Şafak (or Shafak) has joined the growing group of international writers who write in English although it is not their mother tongue, and e Saint of Incipient Insanities has been shelved in bookstores among other examples of “the rapid, extensive and many-sided internationalization of literatures at the end of the twentieth century”(Dhardwadker 59). e aim of this article is to explore how Shafak’s novel tackles the grip of nation on writers, especially on those from formerly colonized and/or so-called developing countries of the world, by focusing on the novel’s publication processes and the writer’s use of English in the novel. In his article Vinay Dhardwadker draws attention to a paradox: nationalism, he holds, is “an essential ingredient in the contemporary internationalization of literatures”(63). He suggests this paradoxical situation is the result of the efforts made by ex-colonized new nations to define their “cultural identities” through literature (produced both by writers writing in their native tongue and by those writing in English):
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ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature
Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

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E. Öztabak Avcı, “An Analysis of Elif Şafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities as an International Novel,” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, pp. 83–99, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ariel/issue/view/2266.
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