Aufklärung: Entfremdung Von Der Tradition? Zafer Şenocaks Reflektion Der Türkischen Kultur - Ein Wandlungsprozess

Abstract

Social, political, religious and literary changes are inevitable when it comes to migration. With migration, people leave their country and move to another one. Thus, they are confronted with a new culture, a new language and a new way of living. With the coming together of different cultures, it is possible to see the reflections of issues such as identity, culture, homeland, language, foreigner, other and self in literary works. Therefore, this study considers the book written in the prose genre and experimenting with a new genre, which is one of the last works of Zafer Şenocak, a Turkish-German writer of Turkish origin, consisting of 5 essay collections of essays that he considers important, in the light of the concepts mentioned above. In addition, the author was interviewed and asked questions from the literary works analysed in this study. The aim of the study is to shed light on Zafer Şenocak’s works and to reveal the main themes and intercultural aspects in order to position them within Turkish-German literature. For this purpose, interpretation theory and reception theory were used to read the works of Zafer Şenocak, who sees the world as a collection of signs. Within the scope of the results of the research, it has been seen that the subjects addressed in the author’s collections of essays continue in his prose work and give results here. In addition, the results of this study can provide a better understanding of Zafer Şenocak’s ideas in German as well as in Turkish and make them accessible to people.