Orhan Pamuk, secularism and blasphemy
Subtitle: the politics of the Turkish novel
By: Erdağ Göknar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780415505376; 9780415505383; 9780203080108
Subjects: Politics and literature; Turkish fiction; History and criticism; Political and social views; Secularization; Censorship; Nationalism and literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Polemics of the Author; title: Tropes of "Turkishness" from Sufism to State. Literary Revisions of the Secular Modern; title: The Untranslated Novels of a Nobel Laureate; title: The Archive of Ottoman Istanbul. A Voice from the Ottoman Archive; title: Reimagining the Ottoman Legacy; title: The Literary Politics of the Secular-Sacred. Political Parody from Coups to Conspiracies; title: Novelizing Secular Sufism; title: Conclusion: The Blasphemies of "Turning Turk"; title: Appendix: "What an Interview Can Unleash: Orhan Pamuk".