Esra Mirze Santesso

Essays in Journals

“Halal Fiction and Female Agency.” Journal of Religion and Literature, 54.3 (2022).  

“Artificial Feminism: Muslim Graphic Narratives and Female Agency.” Critical Muslim, 34 (2020): np. (https://www.criticalmuslim.io/faux-feminism/)

“Problematizing the Hyphen: Disorientation and Doubled Otherness in Fatih Akin’s Head-On” Postcolonial Intervention, 2.1 (2017): 83-102. 

“Islamic Writers and Muslim Writing in the United States.” American Literary History, 28.3 (2016): 644-53. 

“Postcolonial Violence in Yashar Kemal’s Memed, My Hawk.” Postcolonial Text, 7.1 (2012): 1-15. 

“Vision and Representation: Photography in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City.” The 

       Comparatist, 135 (2011): 152-60.  

"Implementing Disform: An Interview with Orhan Pamuk.” PMLA, 123.1 (2008): 176-80.       

 “Degrees of Orientalism: Vision and Representation in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red.” 

       Contemporary Turkish Culture, 1.1 (2004): 3-10. 

 

Chapters in Books 

“Muslim Superhero and American Multiculturalism.” Muslim American Hyphenations: Cultural Production and Hybridity in the Twenty-first Century. Ed Mahwash Shoaib. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. 103-22. 

“Pakistani Fiction and Human Rights.” The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing. Eds. Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Masood. New York: Routledge, 2018. 127-37.  

“Introduction.” Islam and Postcolonial Discourse. Esra Mirze Santesso and James McClung, eds. New York: Routledge, 2017. 

“The Discourse of the ‘Other’ in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow.” MLA Approaches to Teaching the Works of 

Orhan Pamuk. Eds. David Damrosch and Sevinc Turkkan. New York: MLA, 2017. 126-34.

"Transnational Identity and the Muslim Diaspora in Camilla Gibb’s Sweetness in the Belly.” Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism: Critical imaginaries for a Global Age. Ed. Aparajita Nanda. New York: Routledge, 2015.41-54. 

“‘Silence, Secularism and Fundamentalism in Snow.” Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk. Eds.      Mehnaz Afridi & David Buyze. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 157-76.           

“Literary and Photographic Aura in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City.” Istanbul:

       Metamorphoses in an Imperial City. Eds. M. Akif Kirecci and Edward Foster. New Jersey: Talisman 

       House Publishers, 2011. 67-81.

“Fundamental Differences in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.” Zadie Smith: Critical Essays. Ed.

       Tracey L. Walters. New York: Peter Lang Publications, 2008. 187-200.

“Art and the Question of Borrowing: Approaches to Plagiarism in Literature Courses.” Critical Conversations about Plagiarism. Eds. Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler, Tracy Ann Morse, Rebecca Ingalls, Michael Donnelly, and Joanna Castner (Anderson: Parlor Press, 2012). 36-43.

“Orientalism Through the Looking-glass: Dualism and Orientalism in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle.” Borders & Crossings: Proceeding of the Fourth International and Pluridisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing, Ankara, Turkey, 4-6 July 2003. Ed. Arzu Etensel Ildem and M. Emin Ozcan. Ankara: Ankara University Press, 2004. 228-34. 

 

Interviews

"Implementing Disform: An Interview with Orhan Pamuk.” PMLA. 123.1 (2008): 176-80.      

 

Shorter Pieces

“One Page of the Graphic Novel Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir.” Humanities. 41.1 (2020). 

Book Review on Rehana Ahmed’s Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism. 

Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5.2 (2018): 251-3.  

“Religion.” The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry 

Schwarz. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

Book Review on E V Ramakrishnan’s Locating Indian Literature: Texts, Traditions, 

       Translations.Recherce Littéraire / Literary Research. (2014): 59-61.  

“Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red,” and “Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle.” The Facts On File Companion to the World Novel, 1900 to the Present. Ed. Michael Sollars. (New York: Facts on File Inc., 2008). 546-7, 869-70. 

"Everyway That I Can: Cultural Negotiation and European Identity in Turkey," Contemporary Turkish Culture. 1.2 (2008): 2-7.