Hybrid Cultural Identities In Elifshafak’sthe Bastard Of Istanbul

Résumé: ABSTRACT ElifShafak’sThe Bastard of Istanbul is a remarkable landmark in the English literature. It focuses on the subject ofTurkish identity, Armenian Diaspora,historical memory and Hybridity as the major current themes. The novel prescribes how the Ottoman Turks forget the historical memory of the minority genocide which regarded as a backdrop of Turkey’s gory history through presenting the conflict of characters identity of Turkish and Armenian American who carry on forgetting the past and escaping the present. The study aims to present the reconstruction of cultural identity by two generations, Asya and Armanoush who resolve to discover the truth about their family past while Mustafa and his sisterZeliha determined to hide their bastardly events and it also projected the importance of the waythey changes when they face new traditions and beliefscrossing the bridge of Turkey, Armenia and America. From a sociological perspective, the present work employs Homi. KBhabha and Stuart Hall‘stheory of hybrid identity and cultural studies. Thus, chapter one presents and socio-historical context a theoretical framework of the work, while the second chapter portrays the analysis of the characters’ hybrid cultural identities and displacement.The study concludes that every person needs to form his own cultural identity, and that everyone has his own third space, in addition to the past is one of the processes in constructing an identity.

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