For many decades Germany has had a sizeable Turkish minority that lives in an
uneasy co-existence with the Germans around them and as such has attracted
considerable interest abroadwhere it tends to be seen as a measure of German
tolerance. However, little is known about theactual situation of the Turks. This
volume provides valuable information, presented in a mostoriginal manner in that
it combines literary and cultural studies with social and political analysis.It
focuses on the Turkish-born writer Emine Sevgi Özdamar, who writes in German and
whosework, especially her highly acclaimed novel Das ist eine Karawanserei, is
examined criticallyand situated in the context of German "migrant