Turkish German Muslims and comedy entertainment settling into mainstream culture in the 21st century
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 G...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leuven (Belgium)
Leuven University Press
2020, 2020
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| Series: | Current issues in Islam
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9789462702387 9462702381 9461663420 |