Global perspectives on Orhan Pamuk: existentialism and politics

Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are often seen as opposing and irreconcilable terms. Existential themes delve into literary nuances in Pamuk that discuss love, happiness, suffering, memory and death. INDICE: 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.Yılmaz .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.Türkkan.Occulted Texts: Pamuk's Untranslated Novels; .E.GOknar .Contributor Biographies

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11411-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido