Posted on Jan 28, 2005

Karin
Hamm-Ehsani, assistant professor of German,
has authored an article, “Screening Transnational Turkish Community in Fatih Akýn's Kurz und Schmerzlos
(Short Sharp Shock)” in the January 2005 issue of Culture &
Communication (Kültür ve Iletiþim). Issued by the University of Ankara, Turkey, the journal
publishes critical work in the fields of communication, cultural criticism, and
social thought. The article elucidates the film's significance
for the crucial (if slow and subtle) changes manifest in
self-definitions of Germany's
Turkish diaspora
and its self-representations in the narrative of Germany
after the fall of the Wall.