Erdag Göknar

About

Erdag Göknar is Associate Professor of Turkish in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and a former director of the Duke Middle East Studies Center. He is a scholar of literary and cultural studies and an award-winning translator whose research and publications focus on intersections of literature and politics in Turkey and the Middle East; specifically, on late Ottoman legacies in contemporary Turkish fiction, historiography, and popular culture. His work includes a monograph titled 'Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel' and translations of notable authors such as Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Orhan Pamuk, and Atiq Rahimi. His current project explores themes of cosmopolitanism, political violence, and the Allied occupation of Istanbul after World War I.

Research topics

• History
• Literature
• Art
• Philosophy
• Ancient history

Selected publications

• The Cambridge History of Turkey

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2008-04-17 · 131 citations

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  Turkey's modern history has been shaped by its society and its institutions. In this fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Turkey a team of some of the most distinguished scholars of modern Turkey have come together to explore the interaction between these two aspects of Turkish modernization. The volume begins in the nineteenth century and traces the historical background through the reforms of the late Ottoman Empire, the period of the Young Turks, the War of Independence and the founding…

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• My Name Is Red

  Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1998-01-01 · 49 citations

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  The Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and the Ottoman Empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. In Istanbul at a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition. Even the illustrious circle of artists are not allowed to know for whom they are working. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their Master has to seek outside help. Did the dead painter fall victim to professional rivalry, roman…

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• Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

  2013-02-15 · 28 citations

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  Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work. In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. After decades of criticism for wielding a depoliticized pen, Pamuk was cast as a dissident through his trial, an event that underscored his transformation from national literateur to global author. By contextu…

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• Orhan Pamuk and the "Ottoman" Theme

  World Literature Today · 2006-01-01 · 28 citations

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• Ottoman Past and Turkish Future: Ambivalence in A. H. Tanpınar's <i>Those outside the Scene</i>

  South Atlantic Quarterly · 2003-07-01 · 18 citations

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  Research Article| July 01 2003 Ottoman Past and Turkish Future: Ambivalence in A. H. Tanpınar's Those outside the Scene Erdağ Göknar Erdağ Göknar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 647–661. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-2-3-647 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Erdağ Göknar; Ottoman Past and Turkish Future: Ambivalence in A. H. Tanpınar's Those outside the Scene. South Atlantic Quarte…

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Frequent coauthors

• Reşat Kasaba

  University of Washington

  3 shared

• Orhan Pamuk

  Harvard University Press

  1 shared

• Carter Vaughn Findley

  1 shared

• Levent

  1 shared

• Hamit Bozarslan

  1 shared

• Ümit Cizre

  Istanbul Şehir University

  1 shared

• Kent F. Schull

  Binghamton University

  1 shared

• Andrew andrew

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• Two NEA literature fellowships (translation)
• Two Fulbright awards
• Residential fellowships at the National Humanities Center
• Residential fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center

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