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My contribution focuses on the ways in which the new born national communities represent individual and collective identities across the former Ottoman Empire, an area of cultural overlapping, hybridity, and confusion. Its starting point is the parallel reading of two contemporary novels, Birds without Wings by the British novelist Louis de Bernières and Middlesex by the American Jeffrey Eugenides, novels that follow the build up of Turkish and Greek identities in a process of mutual mirroring, calling into question the very logic of identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Parallèlement à la négociation conflictuelle sur la définition et le sentiment de la nation au niveau stratégique, les répercussions de la globalisation et, surtout, les négociations avec l'Union européenne, compliquent dans le contexte turc la question des frontières et, par conséquent, la question de l'unité (« toujours en danger», d'après les élites nationales-kémalistes). Le discours nationaliste est consommé au niveau populaire mais, plutôt qu'une simple consommation ou une production stratégique pure, il constitue une production de différents nationalismes dans les tactiques de la vie quotidienne. Cet article adresse ainsi les nouvelles productions nationalistes, en approfondissant dans les tactiques qui vont de la survie à la subversion ou à de nouveaux rites religieux dans une situation d'incertitude et d'ambivalence rendue propice par la globalisation, par une nouvelle rencontre avec l'Occident et par la disparition des frontières [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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