Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been asking for decades what it means to be German and what it means for Turkish Germans, Muslims of the second and third generations, to call Germany their home.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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ISBN-13
978-94-6270-238-7 (9789462702387)
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Benjamin Nickl is Researcher in Transnational Pop Culture Studies and lectures in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney.
Preface
INTRODUCTION Finding a Voice of Their Own
CHAPTER I Germanness, Othering and Ethnic Comedy
CHAPTER II
Clash Films
CHAPTER II
Television Narratives of Ottoman Invasion and Cohabitation
CHAPTER IV Bridget Jones's Halal Diary
CHAPTER V Funny Online Kanakism
CHAPTER VI
Settling into "Post-Migrant" Mainstream Culture
CONCLUSION European Muslims' Issues: Turkish German Comedy in a Global Entertainment and Identity Politics Framework
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