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On the poetics of language-mixing in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s writingThis article focuses on the poetics of language-mixing (Sprachmischung) inEmine Sevgi Özdamar‟s writing, paying particular attention to the surface andmateriality of her texts. Özdamars‟s ways of interweaving language(s) consist notonly in mixing German and Turkish elements but also include allusions to Arabicand Ottoman, references to oral and scriptural traditions, and are closely linked tothe practices of transcription and translation. By reading Özdamar‟s writing as a“site of multiple translation” (Azade Seyhan) different dimensions of languagemixing (for example spelling, onomatopoeia, translation of idioms and names) areexplored. The article concludes with the plea for a broadening of the perspectiveon language-mixing in literature and the creation of a comparative poetics ofSprachmischung.