Comparative Literature and Intercultural Communication: an Imagological Analysis of Iris Alanyali`s Work Gebrauchsanweisung Für die Türkei

Authors : Alper KELEŞ

Pages : 16-33

Doi:10.38060/kare.939283

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Publication Date : 2021-07-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Multicultural societies are one of the research objects that social sciences researchs are particularly focused on. In these societies, cultural, sociological phenomena and problematics are analyzed by many different sciences by various methods and some conclusions are reached. As an important representative of these disciplines comparative literature creates a research area on these societies with the contributions of both imagology and intercultural literary theories. In fact according to various definitions, comparative literature which plays a major role in the providing of intercultural communication examines the relationship of the individual with the `other` in social and psychological dimensions, especially with its one of the research methods imagology oriented studies and focuses on differences and phenomena which are described as foreign through images. In this study, primarily a general definition of comparative literature is given in a theoretical context, and then imagology discussions and the concept and theories of intercultural literature are mentioned in a descriptive way. In application part of this study, the work of Iris Alanyalı who is considered one of the representatives of intercultural literature in Germany, named Gebrauchsanweisung für die Türkei is examined. The most important reason for this work to be chosen is to determine how effective the bicultural identity which is carried by the author in the work written for the German readership about Turkey and Turkish culture. For this research, various concepts of intercultural literary theories and imagology are used. Thus, with its imagological analysis, in the name of intercultural communication what kind of contribution it has is exhibited.
Keywords : Comparative Literature, Imagology, Interculturality, Intercultural Communication