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(2018) Language and literature in a glocal world, Dordrecht, Springer.
Fears of dissolution and loss
Orhan Pamuk's characters in relation to the treaty of Sèvres
Fran Hassencahl
pp. 177-192
This chapter examines the dialectic between metaphors of nostalgia for the past and expectations of the future as represented in the works of Orhan Pamuk. Drawing upon Pamuk's novels The New Life, Snow, The White Castle and essays in Other Colors, this study suggests that Pamuk's approach to creating a Turkish identity is unique in its acceptance of history and its possibilities, even if it is not aligned to contemporary notions of the self. Pamuk is not afraid to look back at Ottoman history and question the grand narratives of nationalism by the new republic. In so doing, Pamuk joins other writers, such as the poet Nazim Hikmet, and the novelists Yaşar Kemal and Ahmet H. Tanpınar, who created great literature, but were unable to separate their craft from the question of the nature of the Turkish state.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_11
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Hassencahl, F. (2018)., Fears of dissolution and loss: Orhan Pamuk's characters in relation to the treaty of Sèvres, in , Language and literature in a glocal world, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 177-192.
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