Literature, Moral Imagination and the Out-of-place

Literature, Moral Imagination and the Out-of-place

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In early 2007, the press claimed that Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk had boarded a plane on his way to indefinite exile in New York, after the murderer of the journalist Hrant Dink had publicly threatened him.Some months later, Pamuk denied the Glass and Window Cleaner claim from his armchair in his house in Istanbul.This article arose Seed Trays from the story of this refuted exile, and argues in favour of the importance of moral imagination and literature to provide the subject with a series of hermeneutical skills to translate, to engage, to achieve solidarity and understand the Other in the intercultural habitat.