Publication

2020 - Leuven University Press

Language

English

Word Count

58,000 words, Guess

Page Count

232 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789462702387
  • ISBN-109462702381
  • Better World Books9789462702387
  • Open LibraryOL33810479M

Description

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. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the dynamics that underpin these questions in the still-evolving popular culture space of German mainstream humour in the 21st century. The first book-length study on the topic to combine close readings of film, television, literary and online comedy, and transnational culture studies, Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment presents the argument that Turkish German humour has moved from margin to mainstream by intervening in cultural incompatibility and Islamophobia discourse.

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Other Editions

  • Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment: Settling into Mainstream Culture in the 21st CenturyLeuven University Press2020-01-01

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