On the Other Side of Monolingualism
Fatih Akın's Linguistic Turn(s) 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20655316 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Gramling (0000-0002-0027-4453, University of Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 353-372 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The German Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8831 • E-ISSN: 1756-1183 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1756-1183.2010.00088.x |
| OpenAlex | W2062310521 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
The German filmmaker Fatih Akın has garnered acclaim over his fifteen‐year career for directing intricate narratives of migration, mobile cultures, multicultural communities, and transnational subjectivities. Akın's volatile and evolving cinematic approach to language and multilingualism, however, has attracted little critical attention—mirroring a scholarly predilection for “culture” over “language” in research on transnationalism since the 1990s. This article analyzes Akın's recent feature film The Edge of Heaven (2007) as a retrospective and critical meditation on translingual dilemmas and identities in his preceding features—from Kurz und Schmerzlos (1998) to Im Juli (2000), Solino (2002) and Gegen die Wand (2004)—and on multilingualism in global‐release feature film generally. As a counter‐point to Chris Wahl's conception of polyglot film in Das Sprechen des Spielfilms (2005), Akın's features collectively offer a test palette for a new set of subgenres for multilingual cinema: the lingua franca film, the translatability fable, the undubbable film, the interlanguage film, and the semiodiverse film. The article concludes with some observations about the potential import of Akın's multilingual representations for twenty‐first century German Studies
Art · Comparative literature · Creole language · Film director · German · Heaven · Lingua franca · Linguistics · Literature · Movie theater · Multilingualism · Pidgin · Sociology · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |