Migrants' literature in postwar Germany : trying to find a place to fit in /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cobbs, Alfred L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English German
Published:	Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2006]
Subjects:	German literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Immigrants' writings, German > History and criticism. German literature > Foreign authors > History and criticism. German literature > Germany (West) > History and criticism. Multiculturalism in literature. Minorities > Germany > Social conditions. Germany > Social conditions > 1990-
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Ausländerpolitik and the politics of identity
Migrants' literature in the Federal Republic and its evolution
A critique of Turkish economic reform as reflected in the Berlin trilogy poems by Aras Ören
The quest for self in Akif Pirinçci's quasi-autobiographical novel Tränen sind immer das Ende
Alienation, the antihero, and the loss of self in Adalet Ağaoğlu's novel Die zarte Rose meiner Sehnsucht
The themes of integration, assimilation, and cultural conflict in the shorter prose works of Rafik Schami
Social integration as theme: the satires of Sinasi Dikmen
Refugees and seekers of political asylum in Germany (and Switzerland): the films Drachenfutter and Reise der Hoffnung, and the detective novel Ein Mann, ein Mord.