Zafer enocak

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Zafer enocak is the most prominent and versatile German Turkish writer today. A prize-winning poet, translator, editor, political and philosophical essayist, and fiction writer, enocak is the most challenging voice of the Turkish population in united Germany. His stylish and provocative essays explore taboo and repressed aspects of relations between Occident and Orient, Europe and Islam. His fiction has won him international acclaim, especially the post-unification novel Gefahrliche Verwandtschaft (1998), which deals with the German-Jewish-Turkish-Armenian complex. But poetry is always at the heart of his work. This is the first book in any language devoted to Zafer enocak. It is intended both as an introduction for the general reader and as a resource for the specialist. The volume includes a brief biography, previously unpublished poetry, and an interview with the author held during his period as writer-in-residence at University of Wales Swansea in May 2000.

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'...this volume makes a significant and timely contribution to ethnic-minority writing in German. The fact that the essays effectively complement each other ...further recommends the volume. It will serve fellow researches as a rich resource.' Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 'This vibrant anthology is the necessary starting point for any study of Zafer Senocak's works ... an excellent point of entry for any study of Turkish-German literature.' Gegenwarts Literature

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The series editor is Professor Rhys Williams of the University of Wales, Swansea. Tom Cheeseman is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Wales, Swansea and Karin Yesilada is a leading Turkish-German critic in Munich.