An Allegory of Unthinking Slave
One of the main characters of Chinghiz Aitmatov’s novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, Mankurt, is a Kyrgyz who is captured by the enemy, who thereafter erases his memory as a means of enslavement. Aitmatov portrays Mankurt as the embodiment of the effects of Soviet cultural dominance over...
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| Language: | English |
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Karadeniz Technical University
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Nalans |
| Online Access: | http://www.nalans.com/index.php/nalans/article/view/65 |