Last Modified

• March 21, 2019

Creator

• 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

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.17615/1pma-0j84

Resource type

• Masters Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Advisor

• Jarausch, Konrad Hugo

Degree granting institution

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language

• English

Access

• Open access

Parents:

This work has no parents.

Items

Thumbnail	Title	Date Uploaded	Visibility	Actions
	Representing reality : literature, film, and the construction of Turkish-German identity	2019-04-05	Public	Press to Select an action Download