... I am grateful to Brian Lennon, Özge Serin, and three anonymous readers of an earlier version of this essay for their helpful suggestions. Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey Nergis Ertürk In an article dated September 2...

...Murat Belge Turkey, like many Westernizing/modernizing societies, was for a long time ruled by an “enlightened” minority, composed of the urban intelligentsia and the bureaucracy. The military formed the backbone of this elite. From the end of the Second World War, a multiparty parliamentary system...

... is more or less a New Ottoman Empire. New Turkeyism s image of strength, security, and concord comes into clarity as an imaginary of rec- onciling with the past and of recovering the Ottoman era by modernizing it. What seems to be meant by Ottoman here, in addition to a grandstanding attitude toward...

... toward violence; an emphasis on constitutions; an attraction to trade, commerce, and technological innovation; and a long attachment to the institution of slavery. This review concludes by exploring the relationship between the “core” and the “periphery” of the West, which is to say the place of Turkey...

... Press 2015 Ahmet Davutoğlu Turkey political authoritarianism neoliberalism neotraditionalism Intervention Twin Offspring of Empire, Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Neotraditionalism: Thoughts on Susan Buck-­Morss’s “Democracy...

... and international readerships. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Orhan Pamuk Turkey postmodernism readership national allegory b2 Interview An Interview with Orhan Pamuk Bruce Robbins...

... communism Turkey References Akal Emel . 2007 . “ Rusya’da 1917 Şubat ve Ekim Devrimlerinin Türkiye’ye Etkileri/ Yansımaları .” In vol. 8 of Modern Türkiye’de Siyasî Düşünce: Sol , edited by Gültekingil Murat , 114 – 37 . Istanbul : İletişim . Akal Emel . 2013 . Moskova...

... Greece, and, having by this time learned something about life in a police state, we became apprehensive about our impend- ing crossing of the border from Greece into Turkey. And then, suddenly, I Spanos / Istanbul, December 1969  129 remembered that I had...

... coordinator of Birikim, a monthly journal of socialist culture. His predominant area of interest is political thought in Turkey. Joe Cleary teaches British, Irish, and postcolonial literatures at Yale University. He is the author of Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (2007...

... and practice of translation. For all the centrality of his transla- tions and theoretical writings within the Marxist movement in Turkey, Kıvıl- cımlı remains a figure of striking marginality. His prodigious writings (some 4. Jacques Derrida, Monolingualism of the Other; or, The Prosthesis of Origin...

... political divide. The steadily increasing influence of the IMF and World Bank promised supra- national guidance for the new economy. The European Union was an economic success, from which Turkey remained excluded (in what now appears was that country’s great, good fortune). Francis Fukuyama’s 1989...

... of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (2011), which was awarded the 2012 MLA Prize for a First Book. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, boundary 2, New Literary History, and Jadaliyya. During...

.... The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk sees East and West as the “two spirits of Turkey as one.” He also views the “eternal fight between East and West, that takes place in Turkey’s spirit, not as a weakness but as a strength.” In turn, he dramatizes “that force by making something literary out of it.”19...

... the support of the Western European and US proletariat for Eastern anticolonial national movements, calling on the peasants of China, India, Turkey, Persia, and Armenia to “begin fighting directly for a Soviet system” in their own lands.2 Described by Robert J. C. Young as “a remarkable event...

... is associate professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (2011), the recipient of the Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book, and the coeditor (with Özge Serin) of a recent special issue of boundary 2...

.... She is the author of Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey, a study of Turkish language politics and comparative methodology (forth- coming). Her articles have appeared in PMLA and Modernism/Modernity, and are forthcoming in New Literary History, The Cambridge Companion to European Mod...

... in Istanbul, and has published in cultural journals in Turkey and across Europe. Richard Purcell is an assistant professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies Pro- gram at Carnegie Mellon University. His field of study is late nineteenth twentieth and twenty-­first-­century American literature...

... © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Books Received Abdur-Rahman,­ Aliyyah I. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Akcan, Esra. Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House. Durham, NC...

... of consciousness as the basis for the dialectical image. For him, the immanence of consciousness as interiority is the dialectical image for Turkey as alienation from historical agency, as hüzün. Yet this means Pamuk must have recourse to will to account for the edebiyatçılar’s capacity to represent...

... East. . . . Soviet Azerbaijan, with its old and experienced proletariat and its already consolidated Communist Party—the Hummat Party—will become the Red lighthouse for Persia, Arabia, and Turkey.”26 Narimanov also emphasized Azerbaijan’s direct role in supplying oil to the Soviet Union.27...