Fisk, Gloria

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When Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, he was honored for using his craft as a novelist to bridge a troubling gap between the Judeo-Christian West and the Islamic East. Gloria Fisk contests this pervasive way of reading Pamuk to look skeptically at the ways…

Introduction: Slippery Words: Orhan Pamuk, Good, and World Literature -- What Good Can a Novel Do? A Novel Can Teach You About Other People -- A Novel Can Teach You About Other People's History -- What Good Can a Novelist Do? Orhan Pamuk as Political Gadfly: "The Armenian Issue"…

Introduction: Slippery Words: Orhan Pamuk, Good, and World Literature -- What Good Can a Novel Do? A Novel Can Teach You About Other People -- A Novel Can Teach You About Other People's History -- What Good Can a Novelist Do? Orhan Pamuk as Political Gadfly: "The Armenian Issue"…

When Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, he was honored as a builder of bridges across a dangerous chasm. By rendering his Turkish characters and settings familiar where they would otherwise seem troublingly foreign, and by speaking freely against his authori…