Özdamar's Autobiographical Fictions
Trans-National Identity and Literary Form
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9853406 |
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| Authors | Elizabeth Boa (University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 526-539 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Life and Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8777 • E-ISSN: 1468-0483 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0483.2006.00366.x |
| OpenAlex | W1968782758 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Emine Sevgi Özdamar's novels Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei · hat zwei Türen · aus einer kam ich rein · aus der anderen ging ich raus (1992) and Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn (1998), are formally hybrid: as fictional autobiographies they mix invention and history; as first-person narrations they produce the divided figure of the narrator/protagonist; in mixing German with transliterated Turkish or Turkish-German patois and fragments of many other languages they are linguistically hybrid. In conveying a complex sense of transformative interchange between culturally heterogeneous countries under the impact of social and political change, both novels combat fixed national or cultural stereotypes. The first novel pervasively mixes social and magical realism in evoking tensions within Turkey between tradition and modernisation, whereas the second novel more sharply juxtaposes a fleeting magical-realist utopian vision with a mildly satirised picture of student protest in Berlin and a much grimmer account of unresolved ethnic conflict and political turmoil in Turkey
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnic group · German · Humanities · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · National identity · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sociology · Transformative learning · Turkish · Anthropology · History · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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