Feridun Zaimoglu / Tom Cheesman and Karin E. Yeşilada (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cheesman, Tom.

Yeşilada, Karin E.

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zaimoglu, Feridun, 1964---Criticism and interpretation.

Zaimoglu, Feridun.

Zaimoglu, Feridun, 1964-.

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Germany--In literature--History and criticism.

Germany.

Gender identity in literature.

Multiculturalism in literature.

Languages in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2012.

Summary:

Feridun Zaimoglu made a spectacular entrance onto the German cultural scene in 1995 with Kanak Sprak: a volume of incendiary texts based on interviews with disaffected Turkish German youths, using an invented, stylized literary language, a hybrid of multiple varieties of German with a hip hop beat. A prolific and acclaimed novelist, dramatist, newspaper columnist, visual artist and live performer, Zaimoglu has remained in the public eye through controversy and reinvention. His more recent work appropriates German literary traditions in radically new ways, adapting Romantic styles, narrative forms and motifs to postmodern conditions.

This volume features the suppressed original first chapter of Leyla, Zaimoglu's critically and commercially most successful novel, first published in 2006, as well as an extensive interview with the author. Critical essays on his writing by major scholars in the field cover issues of gender, language and power, the politics of ethnicity, religion, Romanticism and anti-modernism, and the challenges of translating his work.

This is the first volume of criticism in any language dedicated to Zaimoglu's literary work. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Unpublished First Chapter of Leyla: Facsimile Typescript, English Translation and Commentary / Feridun Zaimoglu Zaimoglu, Feridun, Tom Cheesman Cheesman, Tom, Karin E. Yesilada Yesilada, Karin E. 13

'Ich bin nicht modern'/'I'm not Modern': Interviews with Feridun Zaimoglu / Tom Cheesman Cheesman, Tom, Karin E. Yesilada Yesilada, Karin E. 39

Wordforce: Ethnicized Masculinity and Literary Style in Kanak Spark and Koppstoff / Yasemin Yildiz Yildiz, Yasemin 71

Linguistic Rebellion in Koppstoff / Kristin Dickinson Dickinson, Kristin, Robin Ellis Ellis, Robin, Priscilla Layne Layne, Priscilla 93

Nathan Without the Rings: Postmodern Religion in Nathan Messias / Tom Cheesman Cheesman, Tom 117

'God's Warriors': A Green Thread in the Work of Feridun Zaimoglu / Karin E. Yesilada Yesilada, Karin E. 145

'Der Fremde...das war dein Vater': Turkish Muslim Masculinism in Leyla / Frauke Matthes Matthes, Frauke 167

Authorship and Authenticity in Migrant Writing: The Plagiarism Debate on Leyla / Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel Dayioglu-Yücel, Yasemin 183

Rome Seen through the Eyes of a Muslim German Latter-Day Flâneur / Petra Fachinger Fachinger, Petra 201

Between Romantic Love and War Machine: Liebesbrand / Margaret Littler Littler, Margaret 219

Romantic Rebellion: Feridun Zaimoglu and Anti-bourgeois Tradition / Michael Hofmann Hofmann, Michael 239

Recherchen mit/Researching with Feridun Zaimoglu / Günter Senkel Senkel, Günter 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

ISBN:

3034308698

9783034308694

OCLC:

806981146

Publisher Number:

99951393784