Migration, Fremdheitserfahrung und Integration in Sten Nadolnys "Selim oder die Gabe der Rede"

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Moderne Literatur, Note: 17/20, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Migration of human beings and properties from one place to another is an important

factor of globalization. Through this mobility, many people find themselves in countries

other than theirs, having different laws and cultures. As such, the problem of integration

of these strangers in their host arises from this situation. The challenge of these migrants

is to change their language, culture everything, while being oneself. Such is the situation

of former Turkish migrants who constitute the majority of the foreign population in

Germany. At the time when the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan declares

that Turkish should not longer be considered as foreigners, xenophobia is widespread in a

conservative German society. It is in that streamline that this work is carried out with the

aim of showing in what ways the novel Selim oder die Gabe der Rede of Sten Nadolny is

a fundamental tool which advocates for the integration of Turkish in Germany. To attain

our goal, we will use the deconstruction according to Derrida on the one hand and

according to De Man on the other hand. This work can therefore be considered as a plea

for Turkish integration in Germany.