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From guest worker to cultural cosmopolitan : evolving identities in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s short story cycle Der Hof im Spiegel
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Jordan, Jim (2016) From guest worker to cultural cosmopolitan : evolving identities in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s short story cycle Der Hof im Spiegel. Oxford German Studies, 45 (3). pp. 330-348. doi:10.1080/00787191.2016.1208422 ISSN 0078-7191.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2016.1208422
Abstract
The title story of Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s ‘Der Hof im Spiegel’ has received the most critical attention of any piece from the collection, leading to the neglect of the composition of the collection as a whole. Reading it as a short story cycle and examining the connections between the texts reveals that they track developments in migration and integration from before German unification into the 1990s. Through her narrator Özdamar comments on developments in social initiatives to promote integration and mutual understanding, as well as advocating direct individual contact as the basis for intercultural understanding. She also explores possibilities of identification for those with a diasporic background which look beyond social models such as multiculturalism and transcend national borders and citizenship. In particular, Özdamar explores the potential of an adaptive cultural cosmopolitanism for establishing new lattices of identification as the basis for a re-orientated subjectivity in migration.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology D History General and Old World > DD Germany D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Oezdamar, Emine Sevgi, Turkish literature--German influences, Turks--Germany--Social conditions, Identity (Psychology), Culture conflict , Multiculturalism , Emigration and immigration , Citizenship--Germany | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Oxford German Studies | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0078-7191 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 25 August 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 45 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 330-348 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/00787191.2016.1208422 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 June 2016 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 March 2018 | ||||||
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