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ideological forces. Metahistory, in the case of Pamuk, both
refers to the manner in which history is fi ctionalized and
to the presence of tropes that mediate between cultures,
and are in a sense, agents of translation. See also White, H.
(1978). “The Fictions of Factual Representation.” Tropics
of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism. Baltimore, The
Johns Hopkins University Press; and White, H. (1987). The
Content of the Form. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University
Press.
13 This paradox between the Ottoman imperial legacy and
the nation constitutes a theme in Republican literature that
can be even traced back to the canonized writers of Turkish
literature. This is why MNR is even comparable to works
like Adıvarʼs The Clown and His Daughter or Tanpınarʼs A
Mind at Peace in terms of gender, aesthetic structure, and
the transnational/cosmopolitan.
14 This is a latent tension in much Turkish historical
literature.
15 See for example Zürcher, E. J. (1993). Turkey: A Modern
History. London, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
16 Kinzer, S. (July 26, 2003). “America Yawns at Foreign
Fiction.” The New York Times.
17 Venuti, L. (1998). The Scandals of Translation. London,
Routledge, p. 31.
18 Pamuk, O. (2001), trans. E. Göknar. My Name is Red.
New York, Knopf, p. 287.
19 Pamuk, O. (1991), trans. V. Holbrook. The White Castle.
New York, George Braziller, Inc., p. 12.
20 Ibid., p. 82.
21 Pamuk, O. (1994), trans. G. Gün. The Black Book.
New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, p. 346. This novel is
undergoing a much-needed re-translation by Maureen
Freely.
22 Kafadar, C. (1989). “Self and Others: The Diary of a
Dervish in 17th c. Istanbul and First Person Narratives in
Ottoman Literature.” Studia Islamica 69: 121-50, p. 147.
23 Ibid., p. 138.
24 Pamuk, O. (2001), trans. E. Göknar. My Name is Red.
New York, Knopf, p. 315.
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