Turkish Literature as World Literature

Burcu Alkan is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.Çimen Günay-Erkol is Assistant Professor at Özyegin University, Turkey.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction: "Turkish Literature as World Literature"? What Is in a Preposition?Burcu Alkan (University of Manchester, UK) and Çimen Günay-Erkol (Özyegin University, Turkey)PART I Breathing Turkish in the World Stage1. The Entangled History of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Modern Turkish LiteratureFatih Altug (Sehir University, Turkey)2. Translation, Transcription, and the Making of World Literature: On Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish ScriptworldsEtienne E. Charrière (Bilkent University, Turkey)3. Translating Yunus Emre, Translating the Self, Translating Islam: Zafer Senocak's Turkish-German Path to Modernity Joseph Twist (University College Dublin, Ireland)PART II Turkish Literature in Transnational Waters4. World Literature as Performance: Turkish and British Women’s Writing in Transcultural Dialogueat the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyPeter Cherry (Bilkent University, Turkey)5. "The Living Link between India and Turkey": Halide Edib on the SubcontinentAnirudha Dhanawade (Independent Scholar) and Sima Imsir (Sehir University, Turkey)6. Nâzim Hikmet’s Reception as World PoetMediha Göbenli (Yeditepe University, Turkey)7. The Internationalist Left and World Literature: The Case of Nâzim Hikmet in GreeceKenan Behzat Sharpe (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA)8. The Influence of Nâzim Hikmet on Arab PoetryMehmet Hakki Suçin (Gazi University, Turkey)PART III Contemporary Forms and Cosmopolitanism9. World Literary Refractions: Orhan Pamuk and Juan GoytisoloBasak Çandar (Appalachian State University, USA)10. Teaching The Museum of Innocence in Arts and Design ContextIrmak Ertuna Howison (Columbus College of Arts and Design, USA)11. Elif Safak and Her Fiction: Cultural Commodities of the Global CapitalSimla Dogangün (Dogus University, Turkey)12. For/Against the World: Literary Prizes and Political Culture in the “New Turkey” Kaitlin Staudt (University of Oxford, UK)Notes on ContributorsIndex

The transformative idea that Turkish literature is not simply limited by the horizon of the nation has opened new critical and theoretical approaches in the field. Turkish Literature as World Literature marks an important milestone in the innovative study of the literatures of Turkey as worldly, cosmopolitan, polyglot, and transnational cultural productions that link disparate regions and cultures.