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
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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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Turkish-German film; gender; ethnic stereotypes; bicultural identity; patriarchalism; diaspora; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > German |
Item ID: | 11477 |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17411548.2014.972670 |
Depositing User: | Cordula Böcking |
Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2019 16:20 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Studies in European Cinema |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/11477 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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