Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Anja Schwalen Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 76 ISBN: 9783838374314
Описание
Since the 1970s, interest in ethnic and women’s autobiographies has increased significantly. In the USA, a high percentage of these are written by Latinas, while in Germany women writers from the Middle East, especially Turkey, have emerged. This study compares the autobiographies of Esmeralda Santiago and Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, focusing on ethnic identity, gender, history, and memory. The argument is that both works not only reflect the cultural conflicts and traumas of the writer, but also each host country''s social realities and conflicts during the sixties and seventies. Santiago''s work stresses the division of American society along racial and ethnic lines, but also the chance to reinvent oneself overcoming racial and social boundaries, while Ozdamar reflects on cultural conflicts among Germans as a result of recent history linking them to political oppression and social division in her native Turkey. Both authors find a way to reconcile their personal and social conflicts...
