Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel

ISBN-13: 9780415505376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 314 str.

Erdag G. Knar

Opis

This book examines the literary politics of Orhan Pamuk's novels within the framework of contestations over 'Turkishness', Islam, and secularization. This is not a traditional study of literature, but a book that turns to literature to ask larger questions about Turkish history, identity, collective memory, and cultural practice.

Spis treści

Part I: Tropes of "Turkishness" from Islam to State  1. Literary Revisions of the Secular Modern  2. The Untranslated Novels of a Nobel Laureate  Part II: The Archive of Ottoman Istanbul  3. A Voice from the Ottoman Archive  4. Reimagining the Ottoman Legacy  Part III: The Literary Politics of the Secular-Sacred  5. Political Parody from Coups to Conspiracy  6. Novelizing Secular Sufism Conclusion The Blasphemies of 'turning Turk'

O autorze

Erdağ Göknar is Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies at Duke University and the award-winning translator of Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red. He holds a Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern studies and has published various critical articles on Turkish literary culture. He is also the translator of A.H. Tanpınar’s novel of Turkish modernity A Mind at Peace and co-editor of Mediterranean Passages: Readings from Dido to Derrida (North Carolina, 2008).