Turkish German Literary Studies

Canonical (Re)Considerations and Archival (Re)Animations
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-35726-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: German Literatures in (Post)Migration

This edited volume collectively aims to take stock, address blind spots, and chart new directions in Turkish German literary studies. In the process it seeks to (re)examine the category Turkish German and its aesthetic and political implications as a literary designation. While returning to earlier debates (on reception, categorization, and topoi) in Turkish German literary studies it discusses recent developments and their epistemological implications. Chapters engender archival expansions and illustrate literary contributions to and interventions into discourses on memory, canonization and disciplinary configurations, intersectionality, and (post)migration. Additionally, the question of the archive is a focal point throughout, shedding light on literary engagements with various cultural, historical, and national archives, while also asking about Turkish German literature’s place in physical, discursive, and cultural archives, including archival processes and memory culture. It further examines different, sometimes intersecting networks and alliances, within which Turkish German literature is placed, received, circulated, and positioned.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gezen, Ela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Fore_Words by Ela Gezen.- Chapter 2: The Archive of Migration by Deniz Utlu.- Chapter 3: Archival Assemblies: In Dialogue with Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Oeuvre by Claudia Breger.- Chapter 4: Between Fiction and Journalism: Turkish German Literature and Realism by Mert Bahadir Reisoglu.- Chapter 5: Familiar Strangers: Young Writers of Anadil by Duygu Ergun.- Chapter 6: The German Widow Next Door: A Recurrent Figure of Transmission in Turkish German Literature by Yasemin Yildiz.- Chapter 7: Anger as Literary Paradigm by Olivia Landry.- Chapter 8: “Was ist die Mehrzahl von Dschinns?”: Translating the Transnational by Jon Cho-Polizzi.- Chapter 9: Disrupting the Canon and Historiography in Pluralistic Germany: A Relational Reading of Deniz Utlu’s Vaters Meer and Yandé Seck’s Weiße Wolken by Jeannette Oholi.- Chapter 10: Writing Beyond Ethnicity? Cemile Sahin and Asli Erdogan by Yasemin Dayioglu-Yu¨cel.- Chapter 11: Kurdishness in Contemporary German Literature (2018–2024). An Analysis of Novels by Aydemir, Kiyak, Othmann, Sahin, zu Stolberg, and Taha by Dîlan Canan Çakir.- Chapter 12: “Kann der Traum von einem multikulturellen Deutschland […] noch weitergeträumt werden”?: Imagining Turkish German Futurity after Solingen by Joseph Twist.- Chapter 13: From Literarische Diverse to Nour Verlag: Literary Empowerment and Commemoration by Yasemin Altinay.

Über Autor(innen)

Ela Gezen is Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Her research and teaching focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German literature and culture, with emphases on literatures of migration, minority discourses, and transnationalism. She is the author of . In addition to her editorial work, she has published articles on music, theater, and literature, focusing on the intersection between aesthetics and politics in both Turkish and German contexts.