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The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781403981868

ISBN: 978-1-349-53109-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 6, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Adelson, Leslie A.

Pages: 1 –30

[“Come on!” a professor once badgered. “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, don’t you damn well think it had better be a duck?” “No!” rallied the student, who happened to be an experienced bird-watcher. “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a...
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Chapter 2Dialogue and Storytelling

Adelson, Leslie A.

Pages: 31 –77

[The story of Selim and Alexander begins in the Bavarian village of Rosenheim with minimalist dialogue. When a train reserved for migrant laborers from Turkey stops briefly in January 1965, a young German soldier defies the stationmaster’s admonitions not to board the northbound train. Concerned...
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Chapter 3Genocide and Taboo

Adelson, Leslie A.

Pages: 79 –122

[The year 1990 marked the national unification of German territories and communities divided by the victors of World War II and the dictates of the Cold War that followed. Erected in August 1961, the Berlin Wall could be seen as a belated manifestation of the metaphorical Iron Curtain that...
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Chapter 4Capital and Labor

Adelson, Leslie A.

Pages: 123 –170

[Agonal forces of capital and labor are inscribed in the story of Turkish migration, as economic conditions prevailing from the 1950s on attest. The Cold War closely shadows this tale of human need and industrial demand, especially after 1961, when the Berlin Wall sundered the German populace...
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Chapter 5Postscript

Adelson, Leslie A.

Pages: 171 –172

[When Molly Bloom says yes to an embeetled charmer named Gregor Samsa, readers are invited to delight in an unholy coupling of sorts.1 Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges in 1941 and millennial fervor at the century’s end, Kemal Kurt (1947–2002) crafts a fanciful novel in which over 180 fictional...

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