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@article{190982,
        author = {Dr. Aadil Zeffer},
        title = {Identity, Conflict, and Narrative: Major Ideological Currents in the Works of Orhan Pamuk},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {8},
        pages = {6415-6420},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=190982},
        abstract = {In contemporary world literature, Orhan Pamuk’s literary oeuvre offers one of the most comprehensive, subtle, and intellectually challenging approaches to issues of identity, ideology, and cultural change. Writing from a socio-historical stance influenced by the Ottoman Empire’s legacy and contemporary Turkey’s ideological shifts, Pamuk places his fiction at the intersection of tradition and modernity, faith and secularism, and East and West. His books highlight the erratic nature of identity in a time of ideological strife and cultural fragmentation by examining the psychological, sociological, political, and artistic effects of modernity on both individual subjectivity and group awareness. The main ideological tenets of Pamuk’s major fictional works, such as The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence, are thoroughly examined in this paper. The study examines Pamuk’s recurrent themes of identity crisis, cultural ambivalence, historical memory, ideological division, and the ongoing conflict between inherited traditions and the needs of contemporary life through careful textual analysis and contextual interpretation. Pamuk’s depictions of East-West interactions, identity exchange, love and grief, and the influence of art, history, and narrative on the formation of selfhood are given special consideration.
This study makes the case that Pamuk’s work serves as both a narrative experiment and a cultural diagnosis. His books use postmodern narrative techniques like metafiction, narrative multiplicity, intertextuality, and self-reflection to challenge the idea of stable meaning and cohesive identity while exposing the ideological inconsistencies of modern society. This study illustrates how Pamuk’s writing crosses national borders while staying firmly rooted in regional histories and cultural distinctiveness by placing him within both Turkish literary traditions and the larger global postmodern discourse. The results demonstrate Pamuk’s persistent effort to envision negotiated and hybrid identities that might resolve cultural conflicts without devolving into ideological absolutism. The study concludes by arguing that Pamuk’s novels provide a critical literary arena where the discontents of modernity are examined through narrative multiplicity, ethical ambiguity, and creative engagement with the complexity of modern life rather than through conclusion.},
        keywords = {East-West, postmodernism, identity, ideology, Orhan Pamuk, fiction},
        month = {January},
        }