Atlas Of A Tropical Germany: Essays On Politics And Culture, 1990-1998; Author: Senocak, Zafer; Author: Translator Adelson, Leslie A.; Paperback

Author: Senocak, Zafer; Author: Translator Adelson, Leslie A.
Texts and Contexts; Paperback
142 pages
Published: December 2000
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803292759

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 neworientation 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 at home and abroad, these essays acquire a critical urgency. Senocak reconfigures the TurkReconfigures the Turkish diaspora and the German nation by mapping a 'tropical Germany'. Germany long ago became part of us German Turks, Zafer Senocak observes. Are we also a part of Germany? Gathered here 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.