Read Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture: States of Matrimony in the New Millennium

Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture: States of Matrimony in the New Millennium

Heather Merle Benbow

4.9/5 (27856 ratings)

Description:During the first decade of this millennium Germany s largest ethnic minority Turkish Germans began to enjoy a new cultural prominence in German literature, film, television and theater. While controversies around forced marriage and honor killings have driven popular interest in the situation of Turkish-German women, popular culture has played a key role in diversifying portrayals of women and men of Turkish heritage. This book documents the significance of marriage in 21st-century Turkish-German culture, unpacking its implications not only for the cultural portrayals of those of Turkish background, but also for understandings of German identity. It sheds light on the interactions of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in contemporary Germany. This book explores four notions of marriage in popular culture: forced marriage; romantic marriage; intercultural marriage; and gay marriage. Over five chapters, the book shows that in popular culture marriage is conventionally portrayed as little more than a form of oppression for Turkish-German women and gay men. The state of Turkish matrimony is seen as characterized by coercion, lack of choice, familial duty and honor, even violence. In German culture, by contrast, marriage stands for individual choice, love and equality. However, within comedy genres such as chick lit, ethno-sitcom and wedding film, there have been attempts to challenge the monolithic power of these gender stereotypes. This study finds that, in grappling with the legacy of these stereotypes, these genres reveal a yearning within German popular culture for the very kinds of traditional gender roles Turkish Germans are imagined to inhabit. The book provides a comprehensive account of the multiple ways in which the diverse portrayals of marriage shape views of Turkish Germans in popular culture, and are also revealing of the role of gender in contemporary Germany. It investigates some key genres autoethnography, chick lit, ethno-sitcom, wedding film, gay Bildungsroman, documentary theater within which questions of gender and cultural difference are framed . In new and innovative close readings of literary, filmic, television and dramatic texts, the work reveals the broad significance of cultural portrayals of Turkish-German intimacy."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture: States of Matrimony in the New Millennium. To get started finding Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture: States of Matrimony in the New Millennium, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1498522637

Description: During the first decade of this millennium Germany s largest ethnic minority Turkish Germans began to enjoy a new cultural prominence in German literature, film, television and theater. While controversies around forced marriage and honor killings have driven popular interest in the situation of Turkish-German women, popular culture has played a key role in diversifying portrayals of women and men of Turkish heritage. This book documents the significance of marriage in 21st-century Turkish-German culture, unpacking its implications not only for the cultural portrayals of those of Turkish background, but also for understandings of German identity. It sheds light on the interactions of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in contemporary Germany. This book explores four notions of marriage in popular culture: forced marriage; romantic marriage; intercultural marriage; and gay marriage. Over five chapters, the book shows that in popular culture marriage is conventionally portrayed as little more than a form of oppression for Turkish-German women and gay men. The state of Turkish matrimony is seen as characterized by coercion, lack of choice, familial duty and honor, even violence. In German culture, by contrast, marriage stands for individual choice, love and equality. However, within comedy genres such as chick lit, ethno-sitcom and wedding film, there have been attempts to challenge the monolithic power of these gender stereotypes. This study finds that, in grappling with the legacy of these stereotypes, these genres reveal a yearning within German popular culture for the very kinds of traditional gender roles Turkish Germans are imagined to inhabit. The book provides a comprehensive account of the multiple ways in which the diverse portrayals of marriage shape views of Turkish Germans in popular culture, and are also revealing of the role of gender in contemporary Germany. It investigates some key genres autoethnography, chick lit, ethno-sitcom, wedding film, gay Bildungsroman, documentary theater within which questions of gender and cultural difference are framed . In new and innovative close readings of literary, filmic, television and dramatic texts, the work reveals the broad significance of cultural portrayals of Turkish-German intimacy."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture: States of Matrimony in the New Millennium. To get started finding Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture: States of Matrimony in the New Millennium, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture: States of Matrimony in the New Millennium

Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture: States of Matrimony in the New Millennium

More Books

Food, Culture and Identity in Germany's Century of War

Food, Culture and Identity in Germany's Century of War

Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity

Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity

Other Encounters: European Writers and Gender in Transnational Context

Other Encounters: European Writers and Gender in Transnational Context

The Beginnings of Modern Gendered Discourse in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Literary, Philosophical, and Popular Portrayals of Female Orality

The Beginnings of Modern Gendered Discourse in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Literary, Philosophical, and Popular Portrayals of Female Orality

Geheimnisse | Secrets: Festschrift für Alison Lewis (Limbus. Australisches Jahrbuch 15) (German Edition)

Geheimnisse | Secrets: Festschrift für Alison Lewis (Limbus. Australisches Jahrbuch 15) (German Edition)

Geheimnisse/ Secrets: Festschrift Fur Alison Lewis (Limbus. Australisches Jahrbuch Fur Germanistische Literatur Und Kulturwissenschaft Ulimbus/ ... Studies, 15) (English and German Edition)

Geheimnisse/ Secrets: Festschrift Fur Alison Lewis (Limbus. Australisches Jahrbuch Fur Germanistische Literatur Und Kulturwissenschaft Ulimbus/ ... Studies, 15) (English and German Edition)

Anxious Journeys: Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 202)

Anxious Journeys: Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 202)

Anxious Journeys

Anxious Journeys