Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment : Settling into Mainstream Culture in the 21st Century / Benjamin Nickl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nickl, Benjamin, author.

Series:

Current Issues in Islam

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

[s.l.] : Leuven University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Turkish German comedy culture and the lived realities of Turkish Muslims in Germany Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been asking for decades what it means to be German and what it means for Turkish Germans, Muslims of the second and third generations, to call Germany their home. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the dynamics that underpin these questions in the still-evolving popular culture space of German mainstream humour in the 21st century. The first book-length study on the topic to combine close readings of film, television, literary and online comedy, and transnational culture studies, Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment presents the argument that Turkish German humour has moved from margin to mainstream by intervening in cultural incompatibility and Islamophobia discourse.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789461663412

9461663412

9789462702387

9462702381

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461663412