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"…