Artikel
Work, sex, and socialism : reading beyond cultural hybridity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's "Die Brücke vom goldenen Horn"
Verfasst von:
Weber, Beverly M.
in:
German life and letters
Oxford:
2010
,
63 (2010), 1, S. 37 - 53 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Weber, Beverly M. |
| In: | German life and letters |
| Jahr: | 2010 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| Emine Sevgi Özdamar's work reveals and challenges two dominant images of the immigrant woman in circulation in Germany. When she superimposes the images of the headscarf and the cleaning woman, she reveals the often hidden intersections of representations of the veiled immigrant woman and her role in the German service industry. As ‘the Other’ within Germany, the Muslim woman's veiled body constructs emancipated, democratic Germanness while effectively obscuring the role immigrant women's labour has played in Germany's globalised economy. This production of Germanness participates in a peculiar biopolitics that limits the terrain on which immigrant women, particularly Muslim immigrant women, can participate in German culture. In this essay I briefly sketch out one of the dominant discourses within which immigrant women have been represented in Germany. I then consider a novel by the Turkish German author Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn (1998), in order to consider how her narrative of a ‘sexual’ coming of age also becomes a narrative that reveals and resists those discursive boundaries that circumscribe Muslim woman's femininity and the possibility for ‘Islam in Germany’. | |
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