Atlas of a Tropical Germany Essays on Politics and Culture, 1990-1998

Name: Atlas of a Tropical Germany Essays on Politics and Culture, 1990-1998
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ISBN: 9780803292758

ISBN-10: 0803292759

ISBN-13: 9780803292758

Edition: 2000

Authors: Zafer Senocak, Leslie A. Adelson, Leslie A. Adelson

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"Germany long ago became part of us German Turks," Zafer Senocak observes. "Are we also a part of Germany?" Gathered here for the first time in English translation, these essays chart a new orientation for German life, culture, and politics beyond the Cold War and at the dawn of an unprecedented era. The 1990s began with national unification between East and West and closed with a radical liberalization of German citizenship law; many questions about the largest minority in this multicultural Germany have yet to be asked. This decade also reeled with war in the Persian Gulf and "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans. As Germans imagine themselves as westerners interacting with Muslim populations…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 11/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 145
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



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Coordinates of Orientation: An Introduction



To My Readers in the United States



Germany--Home for Turks? A Plea for Overcoming the Crisis between Orient and Occident



Was Adolf Hitler an Arab? On the Language of Experts When Confronted with Blank Spots


"Orient" and "Occident": At the Crossroads?


The Island: A Travelogue


What Does the Forest Dying Have to Do with Multiculturalism?


Tradition and Taboo translated



Dialogue about the Third Language: Germans, Turks, and Their Future


The Poet and the Deserters: Salman Rushdie between the Fronts


The Concept of Culture and Its Discontents


Germany Is More a Language Than a Land


May One Compare Turks and Jews, Mr. Senocak?


Thoughts on May 8, 1995


Between Orient and Occident


Beyond the Language of the Land


Paul Celan


The One and the Other Child


Territories


Which Myth Writes Me?


War and Peace in Modernity: Reflections on the German-Turkish Future (1994/1998)


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