This paper aims to investigate how Shafak constructs a literary space in which the rationality of science intersects with the emotive and sensorial dimensions of human life, revealing the complexity of embodied existence. Engaging with 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019) the study explores how the protagonist, Tequila Leila, negotiates personal trauma, memory, and identity...
This research paper explores how engaging with the 'other' can challenge and reshape one's preconceptions, focusing on Edmund Husserl's concept of intentional consciousness. It examines The Merchant and the Parrot by Jalal Al-Din Rumi (1207 –1273) and The Persian Letters by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689 –1755), highlighting how encounters with non-Western characters lead to...