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Multicultural British Prose: Elif Shafak’s Novel Island of Missing Trees”
- Authors: Yuzmukhametova L.N.1
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- Kazan Federal University
- Issue: No 3(897) (2025)
- Pages: 129-135
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-2197/article/view/286511
- ID: 286511
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This article examines current trends in contemporary British multicultural novel. The topic is revealed on the example of the work of the famous British-Turkish writer, feminist, human rights activist and active civic figure Elif Shafak. The purpose of this study is to study the thematic diversity and problems of text, as well as their relationship with such phenomena as memory, memory, posttraumatic growth. The author uses cultural-historical, psychoanalytic, structuralist methods. The relevance of the work is determined by the study of the work of the multicultural writer - Elif Shafak precisely in the context of British literature and with the focus of the contribution of this author to the history of the contemporary British novel.
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Landysh Nurgayanovna Yuzmukhametova
Kazan Federal University
Author for correspondence.
Email: land_yz@mail.ru
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Institute of International Relationship, History and Oriental Studies
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