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Elif Shafak's Works: A Means of Preventing Honor Based Violence

Elif Shafak's Works: A Means of Preventing Honor Based Violence

Maria Mirabela Paraschiv
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781522529606|ISBN10: 1522529608|EISBN13: 9781522529613
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2960-6.ch003
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Paraschiv, Maria Mirabela. "Elif Shafak's Works: A Means of Preventing Honor Based Violence." Violence Prevention and Safety Promotion in Higher Education Settings, edited by Mihaela Badea and Mihaela Suditu, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 36-49. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2960-6.ch003

APA

Paraschiv, M. M. (2018). Elif Shafak's Works: A Means of Preventing Honor Based Violence. In M. Badea & M. Suditu (Eds.), Violence Prevention and Safety Promotion in Higher Education Settings (pp. 36-49). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2960-6.ch003

Chicago

Paraschiv, Maria Mirabela. "Elif Shafak's Works: A Means of Preventing Honor Based Violence." In Violence Prevention and Safety Promotion in Higher Education Settings, edited by Mihaela Badea and Mihaela Suditu, 36-49. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2960-6.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter is intended to be an analysis over Elif Shafak's novels which have as main theme the fight for women's rights and freedom. The writer expresses her indignation against the honor code and she pleads for women's emancipation in modern Turkey. Within her novels, Honour and The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak manages to portray Turkish women both traditional and modern, pointing out the gap between these two faces of the Turkish society. An active writer, an anti-violence advocate, but also a journalist who during her interviews and articles published mainly in Western media draws the picture of HBV victims, Shafak reminds the main solution for the eradication of the honor killings and sexual discrimination: ‘Higher Education' for the Turkish girls who stay in their country and integration for those who immigrate in different corners of the world where Women's Rights are respected and the perpetrators punished for their crimes.

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