Bocking, Cordula
(2014)
Beyond binary identity politics? Ethnic, cultural
and gendered othering in Feo Aladağ’s Die Fremde.
Studies in European Cinema, 11 (3).
pp. 212-222.
ISSN 1741-1548
Abstract
This paper examines how Feo Aladağ’s Die Fremde (2010) simultaneously perpetuates
and undermines stereotypes of Turkish-German gender constructs and in doing
so engages in a form of othering that, drawing on a long-established discourse in
Turkish-German cinema, conflates the Other in terms of gender with the Other in
terms of ethnicity and culture. Lauded for eschewing well-worn clichés of traditional
Turkish-Muslim patriarchy, Die Fremde represents diasporic identity construction and
with it clashes of culture among first- and second-generation Turkish migrants in
Germany. Does Aladağ manage to escape the binary economies implied by tropes
such as the oppressed Turkish woman, the German saviour and the Turkish oppressor;
and do the filmic devices she uses subvert a ghettoization of those values that
deviate from the Leitkultur of the majority culture? With the stigmatization of
Muslim men emerging as the flipside of female oppression, Die Fremde, I will argue,
goes beyond re-creating earlier stereotypes and instead shines a critical light on how
such othering is an integral part of German national post-war narrative.
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