Novels of Turkish German Settlement

A broad view of the impact of Turkish German writers' "literature of settlement" on the German literary scene and on German society. Germany has become home to some 2.5 million people of Turkish background since mass recruitments in the 1960s and 1970s to man the "economic miracle." An increasingly settled Turkish German population now asserts a permanent placein Germany: over a third were born there, and a third have German citizenship. At the same time, Turkish German writers have become integ