- Title: Lecture - 'Foreign Lands, Homelands, and the Borderland of Fiction: Placing Women in Turkish Literature and the Displacement of the Woman Writer'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 03/22/2004 - 03/22/2004
- Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936 3518
- Description: Elif Shafak, Turkish novelist, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan
- Detailed Information: Elif Shafak, a leading feminist writer in Turkey and author of five novels, is teaching at the University of Michigan in the 2003-2004 academic year. Her first novel, Pinhan-The Sufi, was awarded the Rumi Prize--a recognition given to best works in mystical/ transcendental literature.
Her presentation will be a combination of fiction and nonfiction: she will offer a reading from her forthcoming work, The Saint of Incipient Insanities, and also give a brief presentation on the literary scene and history in Turkey to give an idea about the framework in which she used to operate and write.
Elif Shafak is also a social scientist, holding an MS degree in Gender and Women Studies from Middle Eastern Technical University, and is continuing her Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science working on a project, Venerated Mothers, Emancipated Daughters, Condemned Queer Sisters: Marginalized Feminine and Feminized Marginals in Turkish Modernization.
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