Selim Ozdogan's Novel Die Tochter des Schmieds: The Opportunities of Women's Selfrealization

Abstract

The literature of Turkish migrants in Germany is in a permanent transformation. Both the alternation in generations and the form and subject of works of every single author are concerned in this transformation. The aim of this study is to illustrate, how the form and subject of Ozdogan's novels are changed. As a result, the paper focuses on Ozdogan's last novel, on Die Tochter des Schmieds (2005) in differentiation from his early novels. In this context, it is assumed that the transformation in Ozdogan's work is distinctive one, because his last novel focuses on three female figures of the third generation in a family which the female figures play an importent role in. As a sample of the migration literature, the novel doesn't describe the life of the Turkish migrants in Germany, but it describes their life in Turkey up to emigration to Germany.