Literature and the Nation: Confronting Unhealed Wounds
This special issue is edited by Erol Köroğlu, Zafer Yenal and Deniz Yükseker.
Editors’ introduction:
»In the lecture he delivered at the award ceremony for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, Orhan Pamuk said: “For me, to be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the wounds so secret that we ourselves are barely aware of them, and to patiently explore them, know them, illuminate them, to own these pains and wounds,...«