DESTRUCTION BY COLONIZERS IN CITIES OF SALT AND THE BRIDGE ON THE DRINA
Colonialism, initially used for an economic purpose, led many powerful nations to discriminate against indigenous people, forcing them to accept their way of living. These colonialist countries brought their languages, religions, beliefs, traditions, and technologies to the native land, creating uph...
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Fırat University
2021
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| Sumario: | Colonialism, initially used for an economic purpose, led many powerful nations to discriminate against indigenous people, forcing them to accept their way of living. These colonialist countries brought their languages, religions, beliefs, traditions, and technologies to the native land, creating upheaval in the lives of the locals as they attempted to recreate their homelands in these new places. During this establishment process, colonizers both affected the land by exploiting it and the natives by interfering with their way of living. Many writers have represented this process of change in the lands and lives of natives in their works either in positive or negative ways. Abdelrahman Munif and Ivo Andrić are among those who characterized the effect of colonizers on changes in the cities of Harran and Višegrad, respectively. Although Andrić does not stress the impact of change in the novel as Munif does, both novelists show the negative aspects of change by the colonizers. The aim of this paper is to show how Abdelrahman Munif in <em>Cities of Salt</em> and Ivo Andrić in <em>The Bridge on the Drina</em> represent the destruction of Harran and Višegrad by the “colonizers”. Abdelrahman Munif is an Arabian writer and writes about more contemporary issues in his novel when compared with Ivo Andrić, who is a Serbian writer focused on the past of his own country. Although they belong to completely different literary canons and refer to different times within their novels, what connects them is their accounts of how the cities are affected by the colonizers. |
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