The Turkish turn in contemporary German literature : towards a new critical grammar of migration / / Leslie A. Adelson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812397203321
• Autore: Adelson Leslie A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• ISBN: 1-281-36539-4; 9786611365394; 1-4039-8186-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Collana: Studies in European culture and history
• Disciplina: 830.9/35299435
• Soggetti: German literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Turks - Germany - Social conditions; Turks in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Intercultural communication in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references(p. (213)-247) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a New Critical Grammar of Migration; Chapter One: Dialogue and Storytelling; Chapter Two: Genocide and Taboo; Chapter Three: Capital and Labor; Postscript; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Challenging the commonplace that suspends migrants between two worlds', this study turns a refreshingly curious eye to complex cultural relations and literary novelties wrought by Turkish migration to Germany. At interpretive and historic crossroads involving dialogue and storytelling, genocide and taboo, and capital and labour in the 1990's. This book illuminates far-reaching imaginative effects that literatures of migration can engender. In critical conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Rey Chow, Andreas Huyssen, Dominick LaCapra, Doris Sommer, and many others, Adelson probes history and aesthetics as surprisingly twinned indices of national and global transformation at the millennial turn.