How did Latife Tekin portray displaced Anatolian villagers in Istanbul?

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Latife Tekin portrays the experience of displaced Anatolian villagers in Istanbul by deconstructing traditional narrative forms to mirror the disintegration of the migrants' own lives and belief systems.1

In her debut novel, Sevgili arsız ölüm (1983; Dear Shameless Death), she draws upon her personal experiences as a displaced villager to depict this transition. Her subsequent work, Berci Kristin çöp masalları (1984; Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills), focuses on the lives of women residing in a new shantytown. Through her unique use of the Turkish language, Tekin critiques the impact of a predatory modernity on rural culture, illustrating how the migration process dismantles the former religious and social structures of these displaced individuals.1