During the first decade of this millennium Germany's largest ethnic
minority-Turkish Germans-began to enjoy a new cultural prominence
in German literature, film, television and theater. While
controversies around forced marriage and "honor" killings have
driven popular interest in the situation of Turkish-German women,
popular culture has played a key role in diversifying portrayals of
women and men of Turkish heritage. This book documents the
significance of marriage in 21st-century Turkish-German culture,
unpacking its implications not only for the cultural portrayals of
those of Turkish background, but also for understandings of German
identity. It sheds light on the interactions of gender, sexuality
and ethnicity in contemporary Germany. This book explores four
notions of marriage in popular culture: forced marriage; romantic
marriage; intercultural marriage; and gay marriage. Over five
chapters, the book shows that in popular culture marriage is
conventionally portrayed as little more than a form of oppression
for Turkish-German women and gay men. The state of Turkish
matrimony is seen as characterized by coercion, lack of choice,
familial duty and "honor," even violence. In German culture, by
contrast, marriage stands for individual choice, love and equality.
However, within comedy genres such as "chick lit", "ethno-sitcom"
and wedding film, there have been attempts to challenge the
monolithic power of these gender stereotypes. This study finds
that, in grappling with the legacy of these stereotypes, these
genres reveal a yearning within German popular culture for the very
kinds of "traditional" gender roles Turkish Germans are imagined to
inhabit. The book provides a comprehensive account of the multiple
ways in which the diverse portrayals of marriage shape views of
Turkish Germans in popular culture, and are also revealing of the
role of gender in contemporary Germany. It investigates some key
genres-autoethnography, chick lit, ethno-sitcom, wedding film,
"gay" Bildungsroman, documentary theater-within which questions of
gender and cultural difference are "framed". In new and innovative
close readings of literary, filmic, television and dramatic texts,
the work reveals the broad significance of cultural portrayals of
Turkish-German intimacy.
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