Sibel Erol
Biographic Data
| ID | 4120967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sibel Erol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sibel |
| FAMILY NAME | Erol |
| SIGNATURE | EROL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Chronotope of Istanbul in Orhan Pamuk's Memoir Istanbul
In his memoir Istanbul , Orhan Pamuk argues that Istanbul is the site of intense hüzün (melancholy) caused by the loss of the Ottoman Empire. Furthermore, like other inhabitants of the city, that is, Istanbullus, his life is imbued with this inescapable melancholy. Taking issue with the apparent anachronism of Pamuk's historical argument, I show how he constructs and naturalizes this association between Istanbul, melancholy, and loss of empire by…
Reading Orhan Pamuk's Snow as Parody: Difference as Sameness
In presenting the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, the Swedish Academy commended him for his discovery of ‘new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures’. 1 The deliberate choice of ‘clash’ is a coded, evocative way of simultaneously bringing up the now well-worn phrase ‘the clash of civilizations’ and disavowing it by replacing ‘civilizations’ with ‘cultures’. This is also carefully balanced with the mor…
Discourses on the Intellectual: The Universal, the Particular and Their Mediation in the Works of Nazlı Eray
My intention in this article is to read Nazlı Eray's works in terms of her revision of the role and function of the Turkish intellectual. Eray's revision also serves as a critique of the Western notions of the intellectual, not only because Turkish definitions are influenced by Western debates, but also because she deliberately situates her writing in an international and cosmopolitan context. This article falls into three parts. The first part p…
Feminism in Turkey
Feminism in Turkey has reached a new exciting dimension in the last decade with the emergence of autonomous and multifarious female voices. Duygu Asena, an editor and novelist, has much to do with paving the way for the emergence of these voices. With her controversial writings and independent lifestyle, she is an icon of Turkish feminism, the Gloria Steinem of Turkish culture. As a proponent of staunch individualism, she has not allied herself w…
Feminism in Turkey
Feminism in Turkey has reached a new exciting dimension in the last decade with the emergence of autonomous and multifarious female voices. Duygu Asena, an editor and novelist, has much to do with paving the way for the emergence of these voices. With her controversial writings and independent lifestyle, she is an icon of Turkish feminism, the Gloria Steinem of Turkish culture. As a proponent of staunch individualism, she has not allied herself w…
Reading Orhan Pamuk's Snow as Parody: Difference as Sameness
In presenting the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, the Swedish Academy commended him for his discovery of ‘new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures’. 1 The deliberate choice of ‘clash’ is a coded, evocative way of simultaneously bringing up the now well-worn phrase ‘the clash of civilizations’ and disavowing it by replacing ‘civilizations’ with ‘cultures’. This is also carefully balanced with the mor…
Feminism in Turkey
Feminism in Turkey has reached a new exciting dimension in the last decade with the emergence of autonomous and multifarious female voices. Duygu Asena, an editor and novelist, has much to do with paving the way for the emergence of these voices. With her controversial writings and independent lifestyle, she is an icon of Turkish feminism, the Gloria Steinem of Turkish culture. As a proponent of staunch individualism, she has not allied herself w…
Discourses on the Intellectual: The Universal, the Particular and Their Mediation in the Works of Nazlı Eray
My intention in this article is to read Nazlı Eray's works in terms of her revision of the role and function of the Turkish intellectual. Eray's revision also serves as a critique of the Western notions of the intellectual, not only because Turkish definitions are influenced by Western debates, but also because she deliberately situates her writing in an international and cosmopolitan context. This article falls into three parts. The first part p…
Reading Orhan Pamuk's Snow as Parody: Difference as Sameness
In presenting the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, the Swedish Academy commended him for his discovery of ‘new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures’. 1 The deliberate choice of ‘clash’ is a coded, evocative way of simultaneously bringing up the now well-worn phrase ‘the clash of civilizations’ and disavowing it by replacing ‘civilizations’ with ‘cultures’. This is also carefully balanced with the mor…
The Chronotope of Istanbul in Orhan Pamuk's Memoir Istanbul
In his memoir Istanbul , Orhan Pamuk argues that Istanbul is the site of intense hüzün (melancholy) caused by the loss of the Ottoman Empire. Furthermore, like other inhabitants of the city, that is, Istanbullus, his life is imbued with this inescapable melancholy. Taking issue with the apparent anachronism of Pamuk's historical argument, I show how he constructs and naturalizes this association between Istanbul, melancholy, and loss of empire by…
Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (3 works) · Turkish (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)