Abstract:
This study aims to examine the identity politics in the Turkish-German
autobiographical documentary I Am my Mother’s Daughter by Seyhan Derin (1996,
Germany). The main focus of the study is to analyze the construction of female
subjectivity and the autobiographical subject in the film. By moving from the
Turkish-German minority identity, identity politics in the documentary film will be
further studied in relation to Western discourses on Third World difference. The way
the film constructs gender identity will be analyzed from the perspective of the
theories on culture and identity.
