Navigating the Blizzard: Female Agency and Human Rights Discourse in Orhan Pamuk's Snow.

Türkiye sits at the confluence of Europe and Asia, but this unique position produces a sense of cultural disquiet rather than vibrancy, opines the Nobel Laureate, Orhan Pamuk. Türkiye has been engaged in the process of modernization since the creation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Unsuccessful in unifying the entire population through secularization, Türkiye is still caught between the drive to become a secular, modern society and the pull to maintain traditional Islamic culture. The ambivalent existence of women is just one aspect of this Turkish Identity crisis. Though Kemalist reforms claim to have liberated Turkish women, majority are still under the clutches of a male-dominated society. The study "Navigating the Blizzard: Female Agency and Human Rights Discourse in Orhan Pamuk's Snow" is an attempt to delineate the paradoxical existence of Turkish Women and the question of agency in the so-called 'modern, secular, democratic' Türkiye with reference to Orhan Pamuk's Snow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]