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“Intensities of Feeling”: Emotion, Espionage, and the Ottoman Empire

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.