"The Ottoman legacy has entered twenty-first century Slovak literature through the poet and short story writer Agda Bavi Pain" uvádza v knihe Slovak Perceptions of the Ottoman Legacy in Eastern Europe autor Charles Sabatos

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"The Ottoman legacy has entered twenty-first century Slovak literature through the poet and short story writer Agda Bavi Pain (the pseudonym of Agbar Baba Pan), whose father is Turkish; on the back cover of his first collection, Pain claims to be ‘the descendant of Turkish settlers following the Ottoman invasions in the seventeenth century’.58 Even in a post-socialist, postmodern context, from an author of partly Turkish origin, the historical Slovak links with the Ottomans are reinterpreted to create a fictionalized past. Beyond literature, the historical antipathy toward Turkey's Ottoman past continues to affect Slovak attitudes toward its possible future in the European Union." ... (pokračovanie)

Charles Sabatos: Slovak Perceptions of the Ottoman Legacy in Eastern Europe
Middle Eastern Studies , Volume 44, Issue 5, 2008

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