Women as Boundary Markers between Islam and Secularism in Julia Kristeva's Murder in Byzantium (2004) and Elif Şafak's The Bastard of Istanbul (2006)

The Bulgarian-French writer Julia Kristeva's Murder in Byzantium (2004) and Turkish novelist Elif Şafak's The Bastard of Istanbul (2006) show how both secular and veiled women become the ground upon which Turkey and France build their national identities. In Murder, the two narrators - the...

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Main Author: Bulamur, Ayşe Naz (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Notre Dame 2022
In: Religion & literature
Year: 2022, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 77-96
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Islam (Motif) / Identity (Motif) / Woman (Motif) / Secularization (Motif) / Nationalism (Motif)
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
NBE Anthropology
TK Recent history
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