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Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work. In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. After decades of criticism for wielding a depoliticized pen, Pamuk was cast as a dissident through his trial, an event that underscored his transformation from national literateur to global author. By contextualizing Pamuk’s fiction into the Turkish tradition and by defining the literary and political intersections of his work, __Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy__ rereads Pamuk's dissidence as a factor of the form of his novels. This is not a traditional study of literature, but a book that turns to literature to ask larger questions about recent transformations in Turkish history, identity, modernity, and collective memory. As a corrective to common misreadings of Pamuk’s work in its international reception, __Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy__ applies various analytical lenses to the politics of the Turkish novel, including gender studies, cultural translation, historiography, and Isl

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Author

Erdag Göknar

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136164293

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, Science