German-Turkish Identity in Fatih Akin’s Head-On: Transgressing Gender Boundaries, Redefining Home and Belonging

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. ‘Home’ and ‘Belonging’ in Diaspora Studies Now
5. Homi K. Bhabha in Interview with Klaus Stierstorfer on “Diaspora and Home”¹ 11
6. Extraterritorial: Exile, Diaspora, and the Ground under Your Feet 21
7. The Boundaries of Diaspora: A Critical Response to Brubaker 35
8. Mutations of the Trans-Migrare: Reflections on the Aesthetics of Individuation and Un-Homing on the Other Side of Belonging 53
9. Diasporic Selves: Memory, Identity, Agency
10. Hyphenated Homes: Elizabeth Jane Weston and the Diaspora of Early Modern English Catholics 73
11. East German Constructions of Home in the Context of Intra-German Migration Movements Since 1989 89
12. Reflections on the Korean Diaspora in Manchuria 111
13. Home Work: Post-Fukushima Constructions of Furusato by Japanese Nationals Living in Belgium 123
14. Diasporic Individuals – A Hidden Peace Building Capacity? 147
15. The Process of Integration among German Expellees in the GDR 163
16. Notions of Home and Belonging for Alteinwanderer and Neueinwanderer in the German-Speaking Community in Ottawa 183
17. Home and Belonging in a Semi-Diasporic Setting: Converts to ‘Reflexive Islam’ in West European Societies 207
18. Home-Making: Space, Virtuality, Ideology
19. Being Home through Learning Palestinian Sociality: Swedish-Palestinian Houses in the West Bank 229
20. The Sanctification of Home in Late Medieval England 249
21. Constituting Transareal Convivence via Portable Collection Books: Home and Belonging in Times of Uprootedness and Increased Mobility 265
22. At Home Abroad? International House New York and the Cité Universitaire in Paris: Cosmopolitan versus Diasporic Internationalism 279
23. “Unfortunately, there is no plural for ‘Heimat’ in German”: Home and Belonging in German Naturalization Ceremonies 297
24. Becoming an American: Rethinking the United States Naturalization Policy 315
25. Chris Abani’s GraceLand: Constructing a Diasporic Space in a Postcolonial Metropolis 331
26. No Place like Home? Conceptualizations of ‘Home’ in Salman Rushdie’s “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers” and Roshi Fernando’s Homesick 349
27. Narratives of Belonging: (Hi‐)stories, Boundaries, Trajectories
28. Beyond the Hall: Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging in Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer 369
29. (Non)Autochthonous Origins and the Question of Home and Exile in Nineteenthto Mid-Twentieth-Century English and Hebrew Literature 389
30. Geographies of Home: Constructions of Home and Belonging in Contemporary Emerging Adult Fiction 409
31. It All Depends on What You Mean by Home: Metaphors of Return in Chinese American Travel Memoirs from the 1980s to 2010s 427
32. Too Chinese/Too Cuban: Emotional Maps and the Quest for Happiness in Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting 447
33. Diasporic ‘Home’ and Transnational Identities in Gail Jones’ Five Bells 465
34. German-Turkish Identity in Fatih Akin’s Head-On: Transgressing Gender Boundaries, Redefining Home and Belonging 479
35. Shared Pleasures and Strange Elisions: Three Types of Queer Ambiguity and ‘Return-Migration’ in Afrosporic Fiction 499
36. List of Contributors 513
37. Index 523