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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956278003321

Autore

Mani B. Venkat

Titolo

Cosmopolitical claims : Turkish-German literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk / / B. Venkat Mani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, IA, : University of Iowa Press, c2007

ISBN

9781587297366

1587297361

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

830.9/89435043

Soggetti

German literature - Turkish authors - History and criticism

Culture conflict 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. [219]-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cosmopolitical Claims; 1. Thus Spake the Gastarbeiter; 2. Slouching Histories, Lurking Memories; 3. Authentic Hybrid? Feridun Zaimogblu's Abschaum; 4. Turkish-German Reattachments; 5. Minorities, Literatures, and Recursive Leaps of Faith; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cosmopolitical Claims is a profoundly original study of the works of Sten Nadonly, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Feridun Zaimoglu, and 2006 Nobel prize in literature recipient Orhan Pamuk. Rather than using the proverbial hyphen in "Turkish-German" to indicate a culture caught between two nations, Venkat Mani is interested in how Turkish-German literature engages in a scrutiny of German and Turkish national identity.