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Within the framework of Orhan Pamuk's fiction the shortcomings, failures and idealism of vari... more Within the framework of Orhan Pamuk's fiction the shortcomings, failures and idealism of various projects of modernization become prominent and he questions the grand narrative of Eurocentric notions of progress and development. He repeatedly returns to the concerns of the past heritage rather than a continual linear drive towards newness and such a technique enables him to project the tension between pro-Western modernity and tradition in the context of Islamic culture. Turkey's first Nobel laureate, Ferit Orhan Pamuk's first utmost political novel is Snow. The protagonist's name is Ka, who is strongly rooted in Western secularism and after arriving in Kars, a peripheral city in turkey, he started to realize that his identity is divided. Through different spatial images the author invokes a very ambiguous urban space which is divided between two extreme groups. The question, if the women of Kars are allowed to wear headscarf or not, raise new notions of space, polit...
Within the framework of Orhan Pamuk's fiction the shortcomings, failures and idealism of vari... more Within the framework of Orhan Pamuk's fiction the shortcomings, failures and idealism of various projects of modernization become prominent and he questions the grand narrative of Eurocentric notions of progress and development. He repeatedly returns to the concerns of the past heritage rather than a continual linear drive towards newness and such a technique enables him to project the tension between pro-Western modernity and tradition in the context of Islamic culture. Turkey's first Nobel laureate, Ferit Orhan Pamuk's first utmost political novel is Snow. The protagonist's name is Ka, who is strongly rooted in Western secularism and after arriving in Kars, a peripheral city in turkey, he started to realize that his identity is divided. Through different spatial images the author invokes a very ambiguous urban space which is divided between two extreme groups. The question, if the women of Kars are allowed to wear headscarf or not, raise new notions of space, polit...