I think the avoidance of self-revelation is a good topic. There are many examples of this, the abortions being perhaps the most glaring but even the prison experience is not rendered in expected ways. That in itself is a bit of a split self, don’t you think? The revealed self and the inner self? If you want to move the paper in this direction, this would be fine. Think about what she reveals and does not (intimate sexual or work-life details but not some other events) and what we expect from the first-person narrative (vs. what she delivers). Is she holding the reader at a distance? Does this have something to do with Brecht’s alienation technique?

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You should look at the e-book at CSI librarynon German Turkish writers by Leslie Adelson. There is also another e-book about German Turkish authors. I’m not able to check on the article below at the moment, but if you don’t have enough experience doing research, it would be a good idea to sit down with a research librarian, tell her/him your topic, and have him/her guide you. It will make things easier for you. You can just walk into the library and ask for a research librarian.

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