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Feridun Zaimoglu

Tom Cheesman editor Julian Preece editor Frank Finlay editor Karin E Yeşilada editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Published:7th Nov '12

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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.

«Die zehn Beiträge und das Interview sind durch zahlreiche Verweise ausgezeichnet miteinander verbunden und ergeben einen sehr fundierten, wissenschaftlichen Überblick über das bisherige literarische Schaffen Feridun Zaimoglus.»
(Frank Riedel, literaturkritik.de 10/2013)

«So besteht […] das Verdienst der Herausgeber vor allem darin, ein grundlegendes und kompaktes Nachschlagewerk zu Feridun Zaimoglus literarischem Werk zusammengestellt zu haben, das für jeden, der sich mit diesem Autor auseinandersetzt, zur Pflichtlektüre werden wird.»
(Saniye Uysal Ünalan, Diyalog 2/2015)

ISBN: 9783034308694

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 430g

273 pages

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