Turkish literature shows how difficult it is to balance political critique with literary experimentation. But it can—and, perhaps, must—succeed.

Basak Çandar
Başak Çandar is a comparatist who works on contemporary Turkish literature, translation studies, and theories and pedagogies of world literature. She is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at Appalachian State University.
Turkish Literature at Sea
By Basak Çandar
The global literary market is a body of books in translation that, despite being from very disparate contexts, sound a lot like each other. Why?