Orhan Pamuk, Secularism, and Blasphemy [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Göknar Erdağ M
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2013; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 pages)
• Disciplina: 894.353
• Soggetto topico: Censorship - Turkey - History; Nationalism and literature - Turkey; Pamuk, Orhan - Political and social views; Politics and literature - Turkey - History - 21st century; Secularization - Turkey; Turkish fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Turkish fiction - History and criticism - 20th century - Turkey; Politics and literature - History - 21st century - Turkey; Censorship - History - Turkey; Secularization
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: The Polemics of the Author; The Interview; The Ergenekon Conspiracy; Overview of the Chapters; The Death and Resurrection of the Author; Part I: Tropes of "Turkishness" from Sufism to State; 1. Literary Revisions of the Secular Modern; Insulting Turkishness; Pamuk as Dissident; The Secular Masterplot of the Republican Novel; Orthodoxies of Islam and State; Mapping Pamuk's Literary Modernities; Conclusion: Secular Blasphemies; 2. The Untranslated Novels of a Nobel Laureate ; The Empire-to-Republic Bildungsroman: Cevdet Bey andSons (1982)Nâzım Hikmet's "Revolution" in Literary Modernity: HumanLandscapes (1965); The Silence of the Secular Modern: The SilentHouse (1983); Yaşar Kemal's Mystification of Social Realism: Iron Earth, Copper Sky (1963); Conclusion: Making Din Legible to Devlet; Part II: The Archive of Ottoman Istanbul; 3. A Voice from the Ottoman Archive; The Ottoman Legacy; Early Modern Ottoman Istanbul: The White Castle (1985); Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's Poetics of Paradox: A Mind atPeace (1949); The Counter-Archive of Istanbul; Conclusion: Postsecularism ; 4. Reimagining the Ottoman LegacyOrientalizing the Ottoman Legacy; The Writer Manqué and the Writing-Subject; The Art of the Book as Blasphemy: My Name isRed (1998); Halide Edib's Gendering of Ottoman Modernity: The Clown andHis Daughter (1935); Conclusion: Postorientalism; Part III: The Literary Politics of the Secular-Sacred; 5. Political Parody from Coups to Conspiracies; The Literature of Conspiracy; Conspiratorial Logic: The New Life (1994); Yusuf Atılgan's Existential Crisis of Secular Modernity:Motherland Hotel (1973); Melodramas of Conspiracy, Burlesques of Coup:Snow (2002) ; Oğuz Atay's Parody and the Dissidence of Metafiction: Misfits (1971-2)Conclusion: The Crisis of Homo Secularis; 6. Novelizing Secular Sufism; Black Bile, Black Humor, and Black Ink: The Black Book(1990); Mystical Melancholy, or Hüzün in Istanbul: Memories and the City(2005); A Novel of Objects: The Museum ofInnocence (2009); Conclusion: The Hidden Symmetry of SecularSufism; Conclusion: The Blasphemies of "Turning Turk"; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 poli
• Titolo autorizzato: Orhan Pamuk, Secularism, and Blasphemy
• ISBN: 0-203-08010-6; 1-299-13713-X; 1-136-16429-4; 9780415505376
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786274003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II