“...Uncoupling Language and Religion is a welcome contribution to critical English language scholarship on Turkish literature. For Armenian studies, such a project’s value is as great as it is obvious... Mignon’s latest entry is a necessary, and emphatic, leap in that direction.”
— Aram Ghoogasian, Princeton University, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies
“Mignon’s well-researched book is a substantial achievement. It opens new avenues for the evaluation of literatures written in Turkish in and outside Turkey. Uncoupling Language and Religion serves as a model for comparative analyses of national literatures, where canonized names often overshadow the contributions of marginalized literary figures across the globe.”
—- Beyza Lorenz, University of California Los Angeles, Turkish Studies
“Mignon’s “prose” is at the same time lucid and learned, rich and engrossing, attentive to details, yet not losing sight of the bigger picture – a remarkable achievement for a scholarly work…Mignon persistently digs the ground of the literary field to find buried treasures, original themes and subversive voices below the official façade of Turkish literary history.”
— Petr Kučera (Mainz), Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes