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program” (4); “it has had a role to play in significant, and frequently laudable, social changes […]” (8). Accordingly, it is “an effective social agent” (Work 146). Elif Shafak observes: “All around the world, literature has played a tremendous role in projects of nation-building”; yet in cases of belated modernity, “literature has not only been one of the many constitutive forces of the nation-building process, but rather the constitutive force” as writers “paved the way for the transfer of state power” (“Accelerating” 24).

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