Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Writer Elif Şafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics. Via TED Talks.
Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Writer Elif Şafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics. Via TED Talks. ted.com
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Here are Şafak's views on writing in two languages and identity politics in writing which prompted me to post this news piece in the first place.
"..writing fiction in English, I commute between the languages which allows me to re-create myself.. I like writing in Turkish which is very emotional and poetic and I like writing in English which is very mathematical and cerebral. Non western writers of English language feel the identity politics heavily. If you are a Muslim woman and a writer, you are preferably expected to write unhappy sad stories about unhappy sad Muslim women. If you are such a writer, you are expected to write informative and characteristic stories and leave the fiction and avant-garde to western writers.." - Elif Şafak
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