Cosmopolitical Claims
Subtitle: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Published: June 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781587295843
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; Turkish; Middle East; European - German; Middle Eastern; Literary Criticism & Collections / Middle Eastern; Culture conflict in literature; German literature; History and criticism; Intercultural communication in literature; Turkish authors
Description: "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." "Moving from the theoretical literature to the texts themselves, Mani's study explores these conflicts and dialogues and the resulting cultural hybridization as they are expressed in four novels that document the complexity of Turkish-German cultural interactions in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His innovative readings will engage students of contemporary German literature as well as illuminate the discussion of minority literature in a multicultural setting."--Jacket.