Novels of Turkish German settlement : cosmopolite fictions / / Tom Cheesman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911008966503321
• Autore: Cheesman Tom
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-15059-6; 9786612150593; 1-57113-705-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture
• Disciplina: 830.9/89435043
• Soggetti: German literature - Turkish authors - History and criticism; German literature - 20th century - History and criticism; German literature - 21st century - History and criticism; Cosmopolitanism - Germany - History - 20th century; Cosmopolitanism - Germany - History - 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-225) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prelude in the television studio -- Extending the concept of Germanness -- Natural born cosmopolitans? -- Seven types of cosmopolitanism -- The Turkish German novel since "It always ends in tears" -- In quarantine: Zafer Senocak -- Gender and genre: testimonial and parodic cosmopolitanisms -- Ali alias alien: mutations of the unCosmopolitan -- Postscript: astronauts in search of a planet.
• Sommario/riassunto: Germany has become home to some 2.5 million people of Turkish background since mass recruitments in the 1960s and 1970s to man the 'economic miracle.' An increasingly settled Turkish German population now asserts a permanent place in Germany: over a third were born there, and a third have German citizenship. At the same time, Turkish German writers have become integral to the German literary scene. They include bestselling novelists Renan Demirkan and Akif Pirinçci; prestigious literary prize-winners Emine Sevgi özdamar and Feridun Zaimoglu; and the critically acclaimed Aras ören and Zafer Senocak. Tom Cheesman focuses on these and other writers' perspectives on cosmopolitan ideals and aspirations, ranging from glib ; affirmation to cynical transgression and melancholy nihilism. People of Turkish background are still not always recognized as equal participants in German life, but Turkish German writers' interventions defy marginalizing concepts such as 'literature of migration' or 'intercultural literature.' What Cheesman calls their 'literature of settlement' is paradigmatic for European cultures adapting to diversity and negotiating new identities. He shows German culture to have moved decisively beyond such "polite fictions" as the term 'guest worker' or the slogan 'not a country of immigration.' Tom Cheesman is Senior Lecturer in German at Swansea University, Wales.