The Orient-Occident analogy in Kurban Said’s novel Das Mädchen vom Goldenen Horn
This paper presents a historical and literary evaluation based on Kurban Said’s novel Das Mädchen vom Goldenen Horn, which was written in German in 1938. In this fictional book, Said provides a literary, scientific statement on the cultural clash between the Occident and the Orient, which is embodie...
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| description | This paper presents a historical and literary evaluation based on Kurban Said’s novel Das Mädchen vom Goldenen Horn, which was written in German in 1938. In this fictional book, Said provides a literary, scientific statement on the cultural clash between the Occident and the Orient, which is embodied through the book’s protagonist, Asiadeh. The novel begins in the Western World, in Berlin, and ends with a desire for the East, the Orient. Contrasts are highlighted between the cultures of Berlin and Istanbul, representing the Western and Eastern Furthermore, Said describes the cultural, oriental , and feminine potential of the Turkish society in the diaspora and defines their visions. In addition , historical and political facts are included. This study defines the literary perspectives of Eastern, Western, and Turkish cultures. The writer achieved a respectable reputation in his field during theWeimar Republic, after the magazine Die literarische Welt (LiteratureWorld) published in Germany, named him an ‘Oriental expert’. One interesting aspect is that Das Mädchen vom Goldenen Horn is one of the first books to deal with the issues of multiculturalism and cross-cultural perspectives. The story, which is likely based on some of the author’s experiences, shows how the characters, who live far from home, survive and what tactics they follow to handle life. In order to understand this strategy, it is necessary to examine Western imagery through the eyes of an ‘Oriental’ and, simultaneously, the situations a person displaced from the Orient faces in the Western World. In this article, the question of what the Oriental concept means – whether it is an imaginary place in the literary world or a geographical reality – will be answered in line with the views of Banse and Huntington. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a473b2679a13432e8bf1f146142fdd6a2025-08-20T02:27:50ZdeuIstanbul University PressStudien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur2619-98902023-12-0150667610.26650/sdsl2023-1348167123456The Orient-Occident analogy in Kurban Said’s novel Das Mädchen vom Goldenen HornMutlu Er0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8703-2114Max Florian Hertschhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8814-4230Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, TurkiyeThis paper presents a historical and literary evaluation based on Kurban Said’s novel Das Mädchen vom Goldenen Horn, which was written in German in 1938. In this fictional book, Said provides a literary, scientific statement on the cultural clash between the Occident and the Orient, which is embodied through the book’s protagonist, Asiadeh. The novel begins in the Western World, in Berlin, and ends with a desire for the East, the Orient. Contrasts are highlighted between the cultures of Berlin and Istanbul, representing the Western and Eastern Furthermore, Said describes the cultural, oriental , and feminine potential of the Turkish society in the diaspora and defines their visions. In addition , historical and political facts are included. This study defines the literary perspectives of Eastern, Western, and Turkish cultures. The writer achieved a respectable reputation in his field during theWeimar Republic, after the magazine Die literarische Welt (LiteratureWorld) published in Germany, named him an ‘Oriental expert’. One interesting aspect is that Das Mädchen vom Goldenen Horn is one of the first books to deal with the issues of multiculturalism and cross-cultural perspectives. The story, which is likely based on some of the author’s experiences, shows how the characters, who live far from home, survive and what tactics they follow to handle life. In order to understand this strategy, it is necessary to examine Western imagery through the eyes of an ‘Oriental’ and, simultaneously, the situations a person displaced from the Orient faces in the Western World. In this article, the question of what the Oriental concept means – whether it is an imaginary place in the literary world or a geographical reality – will be answered in line with the views of Banse and Huntington.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/6AD777B148D24013B22FA6095AED58B0kurban saidorientoccidentintercultural literatureorientalism |
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| title | The Orient-Occident analogy in Kurban Said’s novel Das Mädchen vom Goldenen Horn |
| title_full | The Orient-Occident analogy in Kurban Said’s novel Das Mädchen vom Goldenen Horn |
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