Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel

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Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy
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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 and
Sons (1982)
		Nâzım Hikmet’s “Revolution” in Literary Modernity: Human
Landscapes (1965)
		The Silence of the Secular Modern: The Silent
House (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 at
Peace (1949)
		The Counter-Archive of Istanbul
		Conclusion: Postsecularism
	4. Reimagining the Ottoman Legacy
		Orientalizing the Ottoman Legacy
		The Writer Manqué and the Writing-Subject
		The Art of the Book as Blasphemy: My Name is
Red (1998)
		Halide Edib’s Gendering of Ottoman Modernity: The Clown and
His 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 of
Innocence (2009)
		Conclusion: The Hidden Symmetry of Secular
Sufism
Conclusion: The Blasphemies of “Turning Turk”
Notes
Bibliography
Index