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NEW BOOK ON TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE EXPLORES BALAKIAN, PAMUK, SHAFAK
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/02/04/new-book-on-transnational-literature-explores-balakian-pamuk-shafak/
February 4, 2013 in Books & Art
The cover of Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity In her
new book Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity (I.B.
Tauris, 2011), Maria Koundoura, associate professor of literature
at Emerson College, breaks new ground in her comparative analysis
of Peter Balakian's Black Dog of Fate, Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul, and
Elif Shafak's novel The Bastard of Istanbul in what appears to be
the first scholarly work comparing modern Armenian and Turkish writers.
In her chapter, "The Spaces of Memory in Transnational Culture,"
Koundoura explores and theorizes-using theorists Walter Benjamin,
Paul de Man, and Frederic Jamieson, among others-the ways Pamuk and
Balakian's memoirs and Shafak's novel engage history, memory, and
loss, and how transnational visions of language and culture inform
literature in the new global age of literature. As the book jacket
notes, "this book will be invaluable for readers of cultural and
post colonial studies, diaspora and globalization studies, and world
literature." Koundoura is also the editor of the journal "Modern
Greek Studies" and the author of "The Greek Idea: The Formation of
National and Transnational Identities."
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/02/04/new-book-on-transnational-literature-explores-balakian-pamuk-shafak/
February 4, 2013 in Books & Art
The cover of Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity In her
new book Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity (I.B.
Tauris, 2011), Maria Koundoura, associate professor of literature
at Emerson College, breaks new ground in her comparative analysis
of Peter Balakian's Black Dog of Fate, Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul, and
Elif Shafak's novel The Bastard of Istanbul in what appears to be
the first scholarly work comparing modern Armenian and Turkish writers.
In her chapter, "The Spaces of Memory in Transnational Culture,"
Koundoura explores and theorizes-using theorists Walter Benjamin,
Paul de Man, and Frederic Jamieson, among others-the ways Pamuk and
Balakian's memoirs and Shafak's novel engage history, memory, and
loss, and how transnational visions of language and culture inform
literature in the new global age of literature. As the book jacket
notes, "this book will be invaluable for readers of cultural and
post colonial studies, diaspora and globalization studies, and world
literature." Koundoura is also the editor of the journal "Modern
Greek Studies" and the author of "The Greek Idea: The Formation of
National and Transnational Identities."