Novels of Turkish German Settlement: Cosmopolite Fictions

by Tom Cheesman

A broad view of the impact of Turkish German writers' literature of settlement on the German literary scene and on German society.

Germany has become home to some 2.5 million people of Turkish background since mass recruitments in the 1960s and 1970s to man the economic miracle. An increasingly settled Turkish German population now asserts a permanent placein Germany: over a third were born there, and a third have German citizenship. At the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133747
• ISBN13: 9781571133748
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 6.1"