Transnational Asthetik des turkischen Alltags: Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's 'Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei.'

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The depiction of freedom and its loss in Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's novel 'Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei' is discussed. Ozdamar fills the structure of the Bildungsroman with the contents and narrative style of the Turkish culture of her childhood, making of this genre a transnational literary form.

Germany, Authors, Exiled, Exiled writers

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Lost in translation: re-membering the mother tongue in Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's 'Das Leben is eine Karawanserei'

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'Das Leben is eine Karawanserei' by Turkish-German writer Emine Sevgi Ozdamar requires understanding of Turkish and German cultures on which Ozdamar drew for her novel. Ozdamar has produced a linguistic and national history in this book, which employs a hybrid language to examine the brief Turkish democracy from 1950-1960. This book is an analogy for cultural studies, which needs to accomodate the mutual influence of theory and practice.

Analysis, History, Turkey, Sociolinguistics, Language and culture, Turkish history, Das Leben is eine Karawanserei (Book)

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Das Vaterland verlassen, nomadic language and "feminine writing" in Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's "Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei."

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The article analyzes an example of literature by Turks in Germany, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's "Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei," especially its treatment of power relations and the minority voices which are usually repressed or derogated by society. Ozdamar lets these minority voices, which he terms nomadic rather than feminine, shape the dominant discourse of the novel.

20th century AD, German literature, Das Leben ist eine Karawanswerei (Book)

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