"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 at home and abroad, these essays acquire a critical urgency. Senocak reconfigures the Turkish diaspora and the German nation by mapping a "tropical Germany."

Atlas of a Tropical Germany: Essays on Politics and Culture, 1990-1998 (Texts and Contexts)

Literature & Fiction

Şenocak, Zafer

History & Criticism

University Of Nebraska Press

Born in Ankara in 1961, Zafer Senocak has lived in Germany since 1970. Over the years, he has become a leading voice in the German discussions on multiculturalism and national identity. His volume of essays Atlas of the Tropical Germany is currently included on the American Association of University Professors list of books to further our understanding of issues surrounding 9/11.
Between 1996 and 2000, Senocak was writer-in-residence at four US universities and was a featured author at the 2007 PEN World Festival in New York City. Door Languages contains material from four of Senocak’s recent German collections.
“His Story”
when there were no secret parts writing was devised on a woman’s body no part left undescribed men and their dirty fingers mixed up one character with the other until the letters couldn’t be read they had never gotten around to reading they became doubters of script looking for the lost language burned all books short of their own body out of the ashes fashioned their dream dame veiled it deep black are illiterates still Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright’s translations of contemporary German poets have been featured in numerous journals. She was the winner of Agni’s William J. Arrowsmith Translation Award, and she has received fellowships from the NEA, the American Literary Translators Association, and the University of Arkansas Fulbright College. A selection of her translations of Zafer Senocak appeared in the PIP Anthology of World Literature of the 20th Century (Green Integer) and in the 2007 Zoland Poetry annual.

Door Languages (German Edition)

Poetry

Zephyr Press

First Light

Deutschsein [hardcover] Zafer Senocak [Jan 01, 2011]

Deutschsein: Eine Aufklärungsschrift

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Edition Körber

Der Erottomane: Ein Findelbuch (German Edition)

Babel

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