Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment: Settling into Mainstream Culture in the 21st Century (Current Issues in Islam, 7)

Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been asking for decades what it means to be German and what it means for Turkish Germans, Muslims of the second and third generations, to call Germany their home. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the dynamics that underpin these questions in the still-evolving popular culture space of German mainstream humour in the 21st century. The first book-length study on the topic to combine close readings of film, television, literary and online comedy, and transnational culture studies, Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment presents the argument that Turkish German humour has moved from margin to mainstream by intervening in cultural incompatibility and Islamophobia discourse. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and Project Muse. Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface Introduction: Finding a Voice of Their Own Chapter I: Germanness, Othering and Ethnic Comedy Chapter II: Clash Films Chapter III: Television Narratives of Ottoman Invasion and Cohabitation Chapter IV: Bridget Jones’s Halal Diary Chapter V: Funny Online Kanakism Chapter VI: Settling into “Post-Migrant” Mainstream Culture Conclusion: European Muslims’ Issues: Turkish German Comedy in a Global Entertainment and Identity Politics Framework Notes References