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Course Description

Reading Orhan Pamuk: Snow | Read, analyze and discuss Snow, Orhan Pamuks most political novel. Explore major themes including identity and gender politics, Republican secularism and Turkish political Islam, modernization by cultural revolution, and Turkeys relations with the West. $33 includes $32 fee.

Learner Outcomes

Examine Orhan Pamuk’s place in, and contributions to, the Turkish literary tradition; Explore current cultural and political conflicts through the eyes of residents of a culturally diverse and geographically remote Turkish town; Discuss the impact on Turkish society of modernization by cultural revolution, and the role of political violence in transforming Turkish politics and society; Examine gender politics and the headscarf controversy in Turkey; Explore identity politics and the conflict between political Islam and secularism in Turkey, Discuss the precarious situation of the novelist/poet/artist in Turkish society.
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