Turkish Culture in German Society

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-1-57181-899-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 433 g

Reihe: Culture & Society in Germany

For many decades Germany has had a sizeable Turkish minority that lives in an uneasy co-existence with the Germans around them and as such has attracted considerable interest abroadwhere it tends to be seen as a measure of German tolerance. However, little is known about theactual situation of the Turks. This volume provides valuable information, presented in a mostoriginal manner in that it combines literary and cultural studies with social and political analysis.It focuses on the Turkish-born writer Emine Sevgi Özdamar, who writes in German and whosework, especially her highly acclaimed novel Das ist eine Karawanserei, is examined criticallyand situated in the context of German "migrant literature".

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horrocks, David

Kolinsky, Eva

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Figures

Introduction: Migrants or Citizens? Turks in Germany between Exclusion and Acceptance

David Horrocks and Eva Kolinsky

Chapter 1. From ‘Pappkoffer’ to Pluralism: on the Development of Migrant Writing in the Federal Republic of Germany

Sabine Fischer and Moray McGowan

Chapter 2. In Search of a Lost Past: A Reading of Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s novel ‘Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei, hat zwei Tu¨ren, aus einer kam ich rein aus der anderen ging ich raus’.

David Horrocks

Chapter 3. Living and Writing in Germany: Emine Sevgi Özdamar inconversation with David Horrocks and Eva Kolinsky

Chapter 4. ‘Black Eye and his Donkey.’ A Multi-Cultural Experience Emine Sevgi Özdamar

Introduction and commentary by David Horrocks and Frank Krause

Chapter 5. Non-German Minorities in Contemporary German Society

Eva Kolinsky

Chapter 6. The Turkish Minority in German Society

Elçin Ku¨rsat-Ahlers

Chapter 7. Turkish Everyday Culture in Germany and its Prospects

Dursun Tan and Hans-Peter Waldhoff

Chapter 8. Turkish Cultural Orientations in Germany and the Role of Islam

Yasemin Karakasoglu

Conclusion

Eva Kolinsky

Notes on Contributors

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kolinsky, Eva
Eva Kolinsky is Professor of Modern German Studies at theUniversity of Keele with a special interest in contemporary German society and politics.

Horrocks, David
David Horrocks is Lecturer in German at the University of Keele, concentrating on twentieth-century German literature with special emphasis on the reflection in literary works of socialissues and historical problems.

David Horrocks is Lecturer in German at the University of Keele, concentrating on twentieth-century German literature with special emphasis on the reflection in literary works of socialissues and historical problems.