Black Milk: ON WRITING, MOTHERHOOD, AND THE HAREM WITHIN - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Elif Shafak (ч. notes)

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1

Peyami Safa (1899–1961): a renowned Turkish writer who lived in Istanbul and was known for his novels, editorials and journalism.

2

Maganda: Turkish slang for a man who is rude and crude; one who is stuck somewhere between Neanderthal and Man.

3

Fatih Code of Law: The Code of Sultan Fatih legalized fratricide in the fifteenth century in the Ottoman Empire, allowing rulers to kill their brothers so that they would not pose a threat to the throne.

4

Tafsir: the art of commenting on the Qur'an.

5

A school that is often part of a mosque.

6

Geoffrey Sanborn, Keeping Her Distance: Cisneros, Dickinson, and the Politics of Private Enjoyment," PMLA, 2001.

7

In Sufism, Hu is a name of Allah, and is used in conjunction with Allah (Allah Hu, which means "God, the Real"). The word denotes a "dimensional beyond" without quantity and quality. It symbolizes Oneness, where everything is interconnected.

8

Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, eds., Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda (New York: St. Martin’s Press: 2002), xxviii

9

For a good biography see Nancy Mitford's Zelda (New York: Harper, 1983).

10

Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, eds., Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda (New York: St. Martin’s Press: 2002), xxviii.

11

In Anthem there is a couple with a child. But even in that novel, the real purpose for having a child is to create a new race and a different model of human being. When Ayn Rand wrote about the education of children it was almost always to show how a rational society of rational individuals would function.