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Erdag Göknar

Erdag Göknar

Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
goknar@duke.edu
2204 Erwin Road, Rm. 234, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

The postsecular imaginaries of Orhan Pamuk's novels

Journal article Literature and Theology · June 1, 2024 This article argues that Orhan Pamuk's literary innovations bring formations of religion and secularism separated by ideologies of Turkish modernization and cultural revolution into productive parity. Pamuk's depictions of the Ottoman Islamic past and its ... Full text Cite

Reading Occupied Istanbul: Turkish Subject-Formation from Historical Trauma to Literary Trope

Journal article Culture Theory and Critique · September 2, 2014 Abstract: The Allied occupation of Istanbul is a little-known historical event outside of Turkey and the Middle East. European powers occupied Istanbul between 1918 and 1923 to enforce the partition of the Ottoman Empire after WWI in the construction of th ... Full text Cite

Turkish-islamic feminism confronts national patriarchy: Halide Edib's divided self

Journal article Journal of Middle East Women S Studies · January 1, 2013 This essay compares and contrasts Turkish author Halide Edib's novel The Shirt of Flame (Duffield & Company, 1921) to the second volume of her memoirs, The Turkish Ordeal (The Century Company, 1928). Both texts have female protagonists and parallel plots a ... Full text Cite

"The White Castle" and the Ottoman Legacy

Journal article Journal of Turkish Literature · January 2011 Cite

"From Steppe to Sea: The Blue Anatolia Literary Movement"

Journal article Turkish Studies Journal Special Issue Festschrift for Walter Andrews · 2010 Cite

"Orhan Pamuk and the ’Ottoman’ Theme"

Journal article World Literature Today · November 2006 Cite