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Orhan Pamuk And The Good Of World Literature (literature Now) by Gloria Fisk is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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When Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, he was honored as a builder of bridges across a dangerous chasm. By rendering his Turkish characters and settings familiar where they would otherwise seem troublingly foreign, and by speaking freely against his authoritarian state, he demonstrated a variety of literary greatness that testified also to the good literature can do in the world. Gloria Fisk challenges this standard for canonization as “world literature” by showing how poorly it applies to Pamuk. Reading the Turkish novelist as a case study in the ways Western readers expand their reach, Fisk traces the terms of his engagement with a literary market dominated by the tastes of its Anglophone publics, who received him as a balm for their anxieties about Islamic terrorism and the stratifications of global capitalism. Fisk reads Pamuk’s post-9/11 novels as they circulated through this audience, as rich in cultural capital as it is far-flung, in the American English that is global capital’s lingua franca . She launches a polemic against Anglophone readers’ instrumental use of literature as a source of crosscultural understanding, contending that this pervasive way
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- Author
- Gloria Fisk
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231544825
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14