Özdamar's Autobiographical Fictions: Trans-National Identity and Literary Form
Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's novels Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei · hat zwei Turen · aus einer kam ich rein · aus der anderen ging ich raus (1992) and Die Brucke vom Goldenen Horn (1998), are formally hybrid: as fictional autobiographies they mix invention and history; as first-person narrations they produce the divided figure of the narrator/protagonist; in mixing German with transliterated Turkish or Turkish-German patois and fragments of many other languages they are linguistically hybrid. In conveying a complex sense of transformative interchange between culturally heterogeneous countries under the impact of social and political change, both novels combat fixed national or cultural stereotypes. The first novel pervasively mixes social and magical realism in evoking tensions within Turkey between tradition and modernisation, whereas the second novel more sharply juxtaposes a fleeting magical-realist utopian vision with a mildly satirised picture of student protest in Berlin and a much grimmer account of unresolved ethnic conflict and political turmoil in Turkey.
Women Writers and National Identity: Bachmann, Duden, Özdamar
© Stephanie Bird 2003 and Cambridge University Press, 2009. In Women Writers and National Identity, Stephanie Bird offers a detailed analysis of the twin themes of female identity and national identity in the works of three major twentieth-century German-language women writers. Bird argues for the importance of an understanding of ambiguity, tension and contradiction in the fictional narratives of Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Duden and Emine Ozdamar. She aims to demonstrate how ambiguity is itself central to the development of an understanding of identity and that literary texts are uniquely able to point to the ethical importance of ambiguity through their stylistic complexity. Bird gives close readings of the three writers and draws on feminist theory and psychoanalysis to elucidate the complex nature of individual identity. This book will be of interest to literary and women's studies scholars as well as Germanists.
Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei hat zwei Türen aus einer kam ich rein aus der anderen ging ich raus
........................................................................................................ v ABSTRAKT ....................................................................................................... vii 1. EINLEITUNG ....................................................................................................... 1 2. HINTERGRÜNDE ZUR AUSWAHL DES WERKES ....................................... 9 3. ANALYTISCHER TEIL .................................................................................... 17 3.1 Aberglaube als ein Kulturelement ................................................................ 17 3.1.1 Aberglaube und sein Einzug in die Kultur ........................................ 18 4. VERHÄLTNIS DES GLAUBENS ZUM ABERGLAUBEN ............................ 26 4.1 Begriffsbestimmung der Religion, ihre Rolle und die Beziehung zum Aberglauben .................................................................................................. 26 4.2 Die monotheistischen Religionen ................................................................. 28 5. PRAKTISCHER TEIL........................................................................................ 31 5.1 Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei .................................................................. 31 5.1.1 Kurze thematische Zusammenfassung des Werkes und seineFunktion ............................................................................. 31 5.1.2 Erläuterung von Glaube und Aberglaube in Özdamars Werk “Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei” und deren Widerspiegelung im Text anhand von einigen Beispielen ........................................... 44 LITERATURVERZEICHNIS ............................................................................ 72