Sakr, Rita
(2011)
Between Terror and Taboo:
Monumentalisation as the Matrix of
History and Politics in Orhan
Pamuk’s The Black Book and Snow.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 38 (2).
pp. 227-247.
ISSN 1353-0194
Abstract
This essay explores monumentalisation as an idea and a practice that
function as the matrix of history and politics in Orhan Pamuk’s novels The Black
Book and Snow. I examine the politics of Pamuk’s negotiation of
‘monumentalisation’ in the two novels through its different textual trajectories:
the surreal image of the apocalyptic agency of Ataturk statues in Turkish space and
history; the elliptical and marginal representation of a centrally significant event in
a tabooed monumental space, as in the instances of a carnivalesque performance
around an Ataturk statue and of Kurdish attacks against these statues; and the
textual monumentalisation of Armenian architectural remains that bear the traces
of past violence. The main argument and conclusion are that Pamuk’s imaginative
rendering of monumental space allows a rethinking of the significance of
monumentalisation on theoretical and material levels specifically with respect to its
relations to various manifestations of terror and taboo in twentieth-century Turkey.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Pamuk, Orhan; The Black
Book; Snow; monumentalisation; History; Turkey; twentieth century |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > English |
| Item ID: |
11448 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2011.581821 |
| Depositing User: |
Rita Sakr
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Oct 2019 14:31 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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