Description
Book SynopsisText in German. Much research has been and is being done on Turkish-German relations. However, the individual disciplines rarely meet to discuss their results for intercultural practice in Germany and Turkey. This volume aims to help close this gap: It brings together contributions from the fields of linguistics, literature and media studies, sociology, political science and other Turkish -German contact fields. Scholars from Turkey, Germany and the USA address, for example, the EU accession negotiations, the God Warrior configurations in contemporary German-language literature and the image of Germany in Turkish films, German-Turkish brain drain, intercultural learning and literary didactics, Turkish schools in Germany, as well as multilingualism and literary translation. Controversial aspects in Turkish-German contact also come into focus, because neither an emphasis on supposedly insurmountable contradictions nor a harmonising suppression of conflicts is expedient when it comes to improving Turkish-German relations.
