Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale

Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Fascicolo | 54 | 2020
Articolo | „Türke von Geburt“ und „Staatsbürger der Bundesrepublik“

„Türke von Geburt“ und „Staatsbürger der Bundesrepublik“

Überlegungen zum irregulären Lebenslauf von Jakob Arjounis Privatermittler Kemal Kayankaya

Abstract

With his first crime novel Happy birthday, Turk! (1985) Jakob Arjouni established a private investigator with a migration background, but whose lifestyle does not differ from that of the indigenous population. The aim of my contribution is to use statements by Jakob Arjouni himself, as well as a collage of the biographical data on Kemal Kayankaya scattered throughout the five crime novels, to show that while the serial hero has developed a bicultural self-confidence, often stylized as a metaphor of his cultural hybridity, more importantly he takes a post-integrative perspective, resulting from his gradual assimilation into German culture and society which began in his childhood and was completed in the course of his adolescence.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 10 Giugno 2020 | Accettato: 29 Luglio 2020 | Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2020 | Lingua: de

Keywords Third PersonGerman Crime NovelThird SpaceKemal KayankayaJakob ArjouniHybrid IdentityMigrant Literature


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