Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk: Existentialism and Politics

By David M. Buyze and Mehnaz M. Afridi

Book Overview

Acknowledgments Foreword Pamuk and No End; S.L.Gilman Introduction; M.M.Afridi D.M.Buyze PART I: PAMUK BETWEEN WORLDS Modern Postcolonial Intersections: Hamid, Mahfouz, and Pamuk; M.M.Afridi Tensions in the Nation: Pamuk & Svevo; D.M.Buyze PART II: PAMUK'S TEXTUAL DIVERSITY Mirroring Istanbul; H.Gurses Problematizing East-West Essentialisms: Discourse, Authorhood, and Identity Crisis in Orhan Pamuk's Beyaz Kale (The White Castle); M.Pittman Framing My Name Is Red: Reading a Masterpiece; E.Almas On the Road or between the Pages: Seeking Life's Answers; F.Hassencahl PART III: PAMUK'S SNOW The Imagined Exile: Orhan Pamuk in His Novel Snow; H.Y?lmaz Silence, Secularism, and Fundamentalism in Snow; E.Santesso The Spell of the West in Orhan Pamuk's Snow and Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land; T.Cartelli PART IV: PAMUK & TRANSLATION/UNTRANSLATION Orhan Pamuk's Kara Kitap [The Black Book]: a Double Life in English; S.T?rkkan Occulted Texts: Pamuk's Untranslated Novels; E.G?knar Contributor Biographies

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134929568X
• ISBN13: 9781349295685
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"