Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk: Existentialism and Politics

✍ Scribed by Mehnaz M. Afridi, David M. Buyze (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 212
Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are often seen as opposing and irreconcilable terms. Existential themes delve into literary nuances in Pamuk that discuss love, happiness, suffering, memory and death.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Modern Postcolonial Intersections: Hamid, Mahfouz, and Pamuk....Pages 9-24
Tensions in the Nation: Pamuk and Svevo....Pages 25-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Mirroring Istanbul....Pages 47-61
Problematizing East-West Essentialisms: Discourse, Authorhood, and Identity Crisis in Orhan Pamuk’s Beyaz Kale [The White Castle]....Pages 63-74
Framing My Name Is Red: Reading a Masterpiece....Pages 75-89
On the Road or between the Pages: Seeking Life’s Answers....Pages 91-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
The Imagined Exile: Orhan Pamuk in His Novel Snow ....Pages 109-124
Silence, Secularism, and Fundamentalism in Snow ....Pages 125-139
The Spell of the West in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land ....Pages 141-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Orhan Pamuk’s Kara Kitap [The Black Book]: A Double Life in English....Pages 159-176
Occulted Texts: Pamuk’s Untranslated Novels....Pages 177-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-206

✦ Subjects

Fiction;Twentieth-Century Literature;Middle Eastern Literature;Cultural Anthropology;Islam;Existentialism

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