Overview

Essays covering a broad range of genres and ranging from the late Ottoman era to contemporary literature open the debate on the place of Turkish literature in the globalized literary world. Explorations of the multilingual cosmopolitanism of the Ottoman literary scene are complemented by examples of cross-generational intertextual encounters. The renowned poet Nâzim Hikmet is studied from a variety of angles, while contemporary and popular writers such as Orhan Pamuk and Elif Safak are contextualized. Turkish Literature as World Literature not only fills a significant lacuna in world literary studies but also draws a composite historical, political, and cultural portrait of Turkey in its relations with the broader world.

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Author:   Dr. Burcu Alkan (Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester, UK) ,  Dr. Çimen Günay-Erkol (Assistant Professor, Özyegin University, Turkey)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
ISBN:  

9781501371639

ISBN 10:   1501371630
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   28 July 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures Acknowledgments A Note on the Text Introduction: ""Turkish Literature as World Literature""? What Is in a Preposition? Burcu Alkan (University of Manchester, UK) and Çimen Günay-Erkol (Özyegin University, Turkey) PART I Breathing Turkish in the World Stage 1. The Entangled History of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Modern Turkish Literature Fatih Altug (Sehir University, Turkey) 2. Translation, Transcription, and the Making of World Literature: On Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Scriptworlds Etienne E. Charrière (Bilkent University, Turkey) 3. Translating Yunus Emre, Translating the Self, Translating Islam: Zafer Senocak's Turkish-German Path to Modernity Joseph Twist (University College Dublin, Ireland) PART II Turkish Literature in Transnational Waters 4. World Literature as Performance: Turkish and British Women’s Writing in Transcultural Dialogue at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Peter Cherry (Bilkent University, Turkey) 5. ""The Living Link between India and Turkey"": Halide Edib on the Subcontinent Anirudha Dhanawade (Independent Scholar) and Sima Imsir (Sehir University, Turkey) 6. Nâzim Hikmet’s Reception as World Poet Mediha Göbenli (Yeditepe University, Turkey) 7. The Internationalist Left and World Literature: The Case of Nâzim Hikmet in Greece Kenan Behzat Sharpe (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA) 8. The Influence of Nâzim Hikmet on Arab Poetry Mehmet Hakki Suçin (Gazi University, Turkey) PART III Contemporary Forms and Cosmopolitanism 9. World Literary Refractions: Orhan Pamuk and Juan Goytisolo Basak Çandar (Appalachian State University, USA) 10. Teaching The Museum of Innocence in Arts and Design Context Irmak Ertuna Howison (Columbus College of Arts and Design, USA) 11. Elif Safak and Her Fiction: Cultural Commodities of the Global Capital Simla Dogangün (Dogus University, Turkey) 12. For/Against the World: Literary Prizes and Political Culture in the “New Turkey” Kaitlin Staudt (University of Oxford, UK) Notes on Contributors Index"

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The transformative idea that Turkish literature is not simply limited by the horizon of the nation has opened new critical and theoretical approaches in the field. Turkish Literature as World Literature marks an important milestone in the innovative study of the literatures of Turkey as worldly, cosmopolitan, polyglot, and transnational cultural productions that link disparate regions and cultures. * Erdag Goeknar, Associate Professor of Turkish & Middle East Studies, Duke University, USA, and author of Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel (2013) * Turkish Literature as World Literature is a valuable contribution with essays that seek to challenge, question, and modify Eurocentric world literature theories dominant in the field. With its case studies, the volume seeks to propel world literature theories to unexplored horizons. * Beyza Lorenz, Lecturer in Turkish Language and Literature, University of California Los Angeles, USA * These 12 essays present a kaleidoscopic view of original reflections on Turkish literary writing from the 1850s until today by authors from Namik Kemal to Orhan Pamuk. In their detailed overview, the editors scrutinize previous approaches to Turkish literature through lenses provided by world literature studies, which they critically approach by unsettling the foundational concepts of center and periphery. Among the topics discussed in this brilliant contribution to world literature studies are 19th-century considerations of world literature by Ottoman authors, transnational literary exchanges, political internationalization, and translation. Challenging and reformulating conventional ways of thinking about modern Turkish literature, the essays in the volume delineate new ways to consider how Turkish literature becomes world literature. * Selim S. Kuru, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Turkish and Ottoman Studies, University of Washington, USA *

Author Information

Burcu Alkan is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Çimen Günay-Erkol is Assistant Professor at Özyegin University, Turkey.

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