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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

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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...

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Published in: German as a Foreign Language
Published: 2008
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