The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature : Towards a New Critical Grammar of Migration

This book and its author have benefited from the extraordinary kindness of so many colleagues, students, assistants, strangers, and friends that true acknowledgment can at best take the form of emulation. I hope these generous souls will forgive me for not being able to list their names here and know that their spirited help is no less deeply appreciated. Challenging the commonplace that suspends migrants between two worlds', this study turns a refreshingly curious eye to complex cultural relations and literary novelties wrought by Turkish migration to Germany. At interpretive and historic crossroads involving dialogue and storytelling, genocide and taboo, and capital and labour in the 1990s. This book illuminates far-reaching imaginative effects that literatures of migration can engender. In critical conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Rey Chow, Andreas Huyssen, Dominick LaCapra, Doris Sommer, and many others, Adelson probes history and aesthetics as surprisingly twinned indices of national and global transformation at the millennial turn. This study turns a refreshingly curious eye to complex cultural relations and literary novelties wrought by Turkish migration to Germany. At interpretive and historic crossroads involving dialogue and storytelling, genocide and taboo, and capital and labor in the 1990s, The Turkish Turn illuminates far-reaching imaginative effects that literatures of migration can engender. In critical conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Rey Chow, Andreas Huyssen, Dominick LaCapra, Doris Sommer, and many others, Adelson probes history and aesthetics as surprisingly twinned indices of national and global transformation at the millennial turn Challenging the commonplace that suspends migrants "between two worlds," this study turns a refreshingly curious eye to complex cultural relations and literary novelties wrought by Turkish migration to Germany as the world at large turns to a new telling of time. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-30 Dialogue and Storytelling....Pages 31-77 Genocide and Taboo....Pages 79-122 Capital and Labor....Pages 123-170 Postscript....Pages 171-172 Back Matter....Pages 173-264