The Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s German without childhood. Analysis of a rhetorical-literary text in a world of displacements and inequality
Cultural rhetoric can be a powerful tool to think one of the biggest problems of the last decades: massive displacements pushed by hunger, misery and, in one word, the inequality that defines globalisation. Thus, we could approach this problem on the basis of the study of different cultural producti...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/717434 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/717434 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | cultural rhetoric transferential critique Emine Sevgi Özdamar migration literature displacement globalisation Filología |
| Sumario: | Cultural rhetoric can be a powerful tool to think one of the biggest problems of the last decades: massive displacements pushed by hunger, misery and, in one word, the inequality that defines globalisation. Thus, we could approach this problem on the basis of the study of different cultural productions. In this study we are aiming at the analysis of a hybrid text, between the rhetorical and the literary, as it is the Emine Sevgi Özdamar acceptance speech of the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 1999 “Meine deutschen Wörter haben keine Kindheit. Eine Dankrede”. This prize is conceived to award authors who write in German, being different from their mother tongue. Özdamar’s discourse highlights this change of language and has profound roots in her displacement. We will study this “Dankrede” in its cultural, rhetorical, literary, and social dimension, seeking to show how the structure and the different mechanisms convey a view about a society marked by displacements of a young Turkish woman writer that finds her place in the German language and thanks for it. From a transferential critique anchored in the interdiscursive analysis we will not only prove useful the application of cultural rhetoric to a text with literary elements, as well as the application of literary categories to a text with rhetorical characteristics. We will also study the (critical) position of the text in a universe of displacements and inequality and we will access to the understanding of Özdamar as ectopic author which finds a lifeline in the German language |
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