Representing reality: literature, film, and the construction of Turkish-German identity Public Deposited
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- March 21, 2019
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Vierra, Sarah Thomsen
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
- Abstract
- The Gastarbeiter and the subsequent Turkish-German community in Germany have prompted scholarly debate over the challenges such a settlement has posed to larger German society. Yet few among those involved in such discussions approach these issues from the perspective of the Turkish-German community and thus lack a critical viewpoint. This study seeks to address this limitation; yet, to do so, one must turn to less conventional sources. In the first chapter, I compare the historiography of Germany's Turkish minority to the literature of Turkish-German writers to determine how the addition of Turkish-German perspective complicates and fills out the findings of historians and social scientists. In the Chapter 2, I analyze films by Turkish-German directors and discuss what these works suggest about that community's development. Ultimately, I find that the Turkish-German artists and their creative works advocate and represent a blended identity that incorporates ethnic background and social and cultural experience.
- Date of publication
- May 2006
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Jarausch, Konrad Hugo
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Language
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- Open access
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