INTERTEXTUAL PASTICHE AND METAFICTIONAL IDENTITY FORMATION IN ORHAN PAMUK'S THE BLACK BOOK
Keywords:
Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book, Intertextuality, Pastiche, Metafiction, Ottoman Literary Tradition, Sufi Literature, Detective Fiction, Postmodern Narrative, and Identity FormationAbstract
Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book has achieved legendary status as one of the early examples of blending several different literary styles and traditions in order to explore the themes of identity, memory, and the nature of the self. This research aims to identify Ottoman, Sufi, detective, and contemporary literary traditions and the ways in which they have been innovatively repackaged and recontextualized through postmodern techniques such as intertextuality, pastiche, and metafiction. Galip’s journey to find his wife, Rüya, and the writer Celâl demonstrates the reinterpretation of these techniques and the construction of a framework which shows the flexible and constantly changing nature of identity. In Pamuk’s novel, identity becomes the result of an interaction between a cultural history, narrative repetitions, and a conscious application of metafiction. The outcome of this research helps reinforce the position of Pamuk’s novel in postmodern literature and identity, as it explores the fluid, performative, and textual properties of identity.
