A Contradictory Community In The "Bog Of East And West":Identity And Works Of Orhan Pamuk

Ours has become an era of a search for roots.In the past two centuries,where the human eyes have been focusing has completed or is experiencing large and small collapse,from the nation-state,community,religion,to race,gender,class and identity.The glass tower made of traditional beliefs suddenly broke into pieces that cannot be repaired in face of globalization and the impact of modernization.Thus,to focus on memory or geography,space and even the landscape,to retrieve the effectiveness of the individual,collective and national ties,has become the only thing that we can do in this confusing era which has been speeded up fantastically.If the place is a specific location,a space is a practiced place,a site activated by movements,human activities,memory narrative and signs,then looking at the landscape is to teach people to understand this narrative trajectory or symbolic characteristics.Similar to some ideology,landscape as a medium in the formation of social and subjective identity process,played a very important role.Orhan Pamuk,a native of Istanbul who,in his forty-year writing career,stood at the junction of the East and West-the Bosporus Bridge,observing,staring,depicting and describing his troubled hometown,not only to recall its bustling former dream,but also to look forward to the city's future,listening and appreciating throughout his works,speaks for Istanbul.Pamuk's works involve novels,memoirs,essays,nearly all of which set the hometown Istanbul as the center.Imagine that,Pamuk who was standing on the Bosporus Bridge or walking in every corner of the city and roaming,devoted all the emotions and feelings about the city to his works,which display to the viewer those carefully selected people,dilapidated streets,the harbor on the foul.This coincides with the practice of landscape as a cultural medium.Under the guidance of Pamuk,the viewers finds and loses himself in the landscape through narrative and graphicalized Istanbul,discovering the relationship between man and city,self and others,nostalgia and identity.The paper analyzes literary works written by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk.On the basis of taking the scenery as the cultural media's practical function and identity,the paper concerns about the relationship of characterization and naturalization,self and the other,in order to find out how to use idealism and skepticism to explain the construction of a local and spatial social,historical and aesthetic characteristics,and to influence the identity construction of viewers in the field of social history.This paper is made up of three parts:introduction,main body and the conclusion,of which the main body is divided into three chapters,which analyze how the works of Pamuk questioned viewers concerning the relationship of landscape and viewers.Chapter one focuses on the literary works of Orhan Pamuk.Through the study of the microscopic features and macroscopic representations of Pamuk's works,especially the theme works of the hometown Istanbul,it highlights the characteristics of poverty,dilapidated and lost in Istanbul,and analyzes the melancholy becoming the cause of the characterization of Istanbul,centered on identity anxiety and pursuit,cultural conflict and fusion.The second chapter revolves around the imagination of Istanbul,the interpretation of the writing of Istanbul in the dual performance.Closely linked the viewer's relationship with Istanbul,questioned the audience,showing how the works of Pamuk's naturalization of culture and society,the reproduction of an artificial world seems to be established.By revealing the close ties and paradoxes between documentary and factionalism,oriental traditions and western narratives,personal memory and collective imagination,it reveals that the process of questioning the viewer as a memory of Istanbul.The third chapter is concerned with the paradoxical and complex of identity,and explores the potential influence of the imaginary community in the process of the identity of the viewer.Combined with Pamuk's personal identity and urban historical data,to examine Istanbul in the process of building people's paradox,combined with Pamuk's cultural poetic style "Huchou" on the identity of the deep plight of the predicament.The four parts form a relatively complete structure.It begins from "imagination of the scenery of Istanbul","the method of imagining Istanbul",then turns to the third chapter "paradox and complexity of the identity",step by step,and comes to a conclusion.A series of literary works centered on Pamuk in Istanbul are not only a personal interpretation of the history and social construction of the city of Istanbul,but also through the narrative of the nostalgic narrative of Istanbul,the expansion of personal dynamic identity Construction process.When the viewer appreciates this cultural medium,he is not only able to enjoy the city,looking for the ego and others who want to identify,but also passively accept the history and culture.Finally it naturally appeared the paradox and complexity of the recognition:people are willing to enumerate their own originality of the characteristics of their own distinction with the other,even if this classification is meaningless,all the identity of the talks are shameful boast and self-inflated.After experiencing shame,anger,sadness,and finally formed their unique Huchou.This unique identity abandoned the arrogant of the other who has all the features,finally comes to achieve a ridiculous "win-win"situation.