262 KB37 KB200720252016Žigon, Tanjaletnik:10številka:2str. 121-135ISSN:1854-9632COBISSID:63107170URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-1LDJT1Q9slZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakulteteArs et humanitasintegracija tujcevKureyshi, Meralmigracijepriseljenska književnostŠvicašvicarska književnostIntegracija v švicarsko družbo| primer Meral Kureyshi|Meral Kureyshi is a resident of Bern, Switzerland, and a recent nominee for the Schweizer Buchpreis literary award for her debut novel Elefanten im Garten (Elephants in the Garden). Born in 1983 in Prizren, Kosovo, in what was then Yugoslavia as a member of the Turkish minority, she moved with her parents to Switzerland in 1992. Her novel is a universal story of a family that left its native multicultural city of Prizren behind for Switzerland in search of a better life. In the novel, the author paints a vivid, no-holds-barred picture of immigrant life in Switzerland, a land known in her "first motherland" of Kosovo as a land of milk and honey, although the reality of immigrant life in Switzerland is far from perfect. This paper uses the novel as a lens through which to examine the status of immigrants in a host country and investigates whether, considering the new reality in which Europe now finds itself, we are capable of realising that heterogeneity and diversity are primarily a mutually beneficial experience, one we can learn a great deal from and use to create a more tolerant world, rather than insurmountable challengesMeral Kureyshi živi v Bernu in je bila lani s svojim prvencem, romanom Elefanten im Garten (Sloni na vrtu), nominirana za švicarsko književno nagrado Schweizer Buchpreis. Meral Kureyshi se je rodila leta 1983 v nekdanji Jugoslaviji, v Prizrenu na Kosovu, kot pripadnica turške manjšine in je s starši leta 1992 prišla v Švico. V svojem romanu tematizira univerzalno zgodbo družine, ki je zapustila rodni multikulturni Prizren in se s trebuhom za kruhom podala v Švico. Avtorica v romanu slikovito in neolepšano prikazuje razmere na področju priseljevanja v Švico, ki v njeni "prvi domovini", na Kosovu, velja za "obljubljeno" deželo, medtem ko je resničnost za priseljence vse prej kot rožnata. Prispevek na podlagi romana obravnava položaj migrantov v tuji deželi in se sprašuje, ali smo sposobni v novih razmerah, v katerih se je v zadnjih letih znašla Evropa, razumeti, da sta različnost in raznolikost ne le nepremostljivi oviri, temveč predvsem izkušnja, ki nas bogati, iz katere se lahko veliko naučimo in ustvarimo strpnejši svetTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete