Those Outside the Scene
Snow in the World Republic of Letters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4936665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nergis Ertürk (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 633-651 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2010.a408302 |
| OpenAlex | W2159723301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article intervenes in both national and transnational critical discourses on the work of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, performing a close reading of Pamuk’s controversial 2002 novel Snow, dismissed by critics in Turkey as a “blunder” and celebrated by the Swedish Academy as “a geological core sample of all levels of Turkish society.” Neither a guide to a new secular politics, nor a verisimilar portrait of Turkey as it really is, I will argue, Snow is best understood as posing a problematic of representation and recognition -- hearing, giving, or appropriating a voice, or refusing to speak -- in a mass-mediated transnational context. I argue that any reading of Snow properly sensitive to its narratorial implied author’s investments in a transnational literary market must grapple with the novel’s internal projective figuration of transnational readership, and that such a reading necessarily brings with it a sense of the real limits—which is not to say the impossibility, or the disvalue—of critical discourse on “world literature.”
Art · Art history · Audience measurement · Context (archaeology) · Impossibility · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Reading (process) · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Turkish · History · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |