Whirls of Faith and Fancy

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" Whirls of Faith and Fancy "
Verena Laschinger

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075849
Doc. No	:	LA119478
Call No	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00403100‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Verena Laschinger
Title & Author	:	Whirls of Faith and Fancy [Article]\ Verena Laschinger
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of World Literature
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	5/1
Page No	:	1–24
Abstract	:	Elif Shafak’s The Flea Palace (2004) exposes secularized Istanbul as a grotesque world. By establishing the apartment building as a synecdoche for the city and negotiating the characters’ trajectories within the historical context of modernizing Istanbul, the novel presents their alienation as the sine qua non of the modern individual which is best confronted playfully or rather in the Sufi way. The argument is supported by the novel’s complex employment of circles and lines as thematic and formal patterns which refer to Islamic ritual practice of the Mevlevi Sufis in numerous ways. Elif Shafak’s The Flea Palace (2004) exposes secularized Istanbul as a grotesque world. By establishing the apartment building as a synecdoche for the city and negotiating the characters’ trajectories within the historical context of modernizing Istanbul, the novel presents their alienation as the sine qua non of the modern individual which is best confronted playfully or rather in the Sufi way. The argument is supported by the novel’s complex employment of circles and lines as thematic and formal patterns which refer to Islamic ritual practice of the Mevlevi Sufis in numerous ways. Elif Shafak’s The Flea Palace (2004) exposes secularized Istanbul as a grotesque world. By establishing the apartment building as a synecdoche for the city and negotiating the characters’ trajectories within the historical context of modernizing Istanbul, the novel presents their alienation as the sine qua non of the modern individual which is best confronted playfully or rather in the Sufi way. The argument is supported by the novel’s complex employment of circles and lines as thematic and formal patterns which refer to Islamic ritual practice of the Mevlevi Sufis in numerous ways. Elif Shafak’s The Flea Palace (2004) exposes secularized Istanbul as a grotesque world. By establishing the apartment building as a synecdoche for the city and negotiating the characters’ trajectories within the historical context of modernizing Istanbul, the novel presents their alienation as the sine qua non of the modern individual which is best confronted playfully or rather in the Sufi way. The argument is supported by the novel’s complex employment of circles and lines as thematic and formal patterns which refer to Islamic ritual practice of the Mevlevi Sufis in numerous ways.
Descriptor	:	apartment building
Descriptor	:	circularity
Descriptor	:	Sufism
Descriptor	:	transnationalism
Descriptor	:	Turkey
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00403100‬