Abstract
ABSTRACT Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, this essay explores the emotional and discursive consequences of the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Through a close reading of Barry Unsworth's Pascali's Island (1980), it traces the process by which certain sociopolitical forces give rise to dominant “structures of feeling” within decolonising societies; and it proposes that these affective qualities also make their presence felt within literary discourse, where they penetrate even the deeper reaches of form, genre, and style. More specifically, I would like to suggest that the sudden decline of the Ottoman Empire, following the revolution of 1908, generates an overwhelming feeling of dissonance within Pascali's Island – and that this negative emotion ultimately infiltrates the discourse itself, creating a corresponding sense of disjuncture, “offishness”, and incongruity.
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