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For Feridun Zaimoglu’s Leyla. Crime Facts and Fictions
Tom Cheesman
German as a Foreign Language, Volume: 3, Pages: 4 - 25
Swansea University Author: Tom Cheesman
Abstract
Feridun Zaimoglu was accused of committing acts of plagiarism and symbolic matricide in his novel Leyla (2006). The accusations are groundless. The controversy exposes misconceptions among German critics regarding the nature of literary fiction in general, and literary fiction by ethnic minority or...
| Published in: | German as a Foreign Language |
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| Published: |
2008
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21714 |
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Feridun Zaimoglu was accused of committing acts of plagiarism and symbolic matricide in his novel Leyla (2006). The accusations are groundless. The controversy exposes misconceptions among German critics regarding the nature of literary fiction in general, and literary fiction by ethnic minority or migrant writers in particular. This paper examines the allegations, sets Leyla in the context of some of Zaimoglus other work, and analyses some contested passages in relation to passages in the allegedly plagiarized novel Das Leben ist eine Karawanserai (1992) by Emine Sevgi zdamar. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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4 |
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25 |