Rezgui / Sturtz / Windsor Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany

Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80543-378-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 244, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Essays on and interviews with minoritized writers of contemporary Germany, mostly women or non-binary, whose literary interventions write radical diversity into the dominant culture and challenge fixed frames of identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rezgui, Selma

Sturtz, Laura Marie

Windsor, Tara Talwar

Weitere Mitwirkende

Colvin, Sarah

Daldrup, Alrik

Essa, Leila

Heim, Lea Laura

Layne, Priscilla

Oholi, Jeannette

Twist, Joseph

Ünsal, Nadiye

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar Windsor

PART I. SUBJECTIVITIES, SOLIDARITIES, GENEALOGIES
1. Acting from Within: Inclusive Literature and the Power of Writing. A Conversation with Sasha Marianna Salzmann - Selma Rezgui and Laura Marie Sturtz
2. Twin Novels: Re-Negotiating Self and Other in Sasha Marianna Salzmann's Außer Sich and Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst - Laura Marie Sturtz
3. New Black German Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century - Priscilla Layne
4. Talking Back, Paying Forward: Dialogism and Literary Genealogies in May Ayim and Olivia Wenzel - Selma Rezgui
5. Black Poetry Matters: A Conversation with Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo - Jeannette Oholi and Nadiye Ünsal

PART II. DISRUPTIONS, SUBVERSIONS, INTERACTIONS
6. Subversive Aesthetics, Embodied Language, and the Politics of Literature: A Conversation with Özlem Özgül Dündar - Joseph Twist
7. De-integrative Rewriting of the Bildungsroman: Social Criticism from a Postmigrant Perspective in Fatma Aydemir's Ellbogen (2017) - Lea Laura Heim
8. Reorienting Knowledge of Structural Systems of Violence in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Adas Raum and Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau - Alrik Daldrup
9. Epistolary Interventions, Epistemic Insurrections: Open Letters and Solidarity with the "Womxn, Life, Freedom" Movement in Contemporary Postmigrant Germany - Tara Talwar Windsor
10. Seen as Friendly, Seen as Frightening? A Conversation on Visibilities, Kinship, and the Right Words with Mithu Sanyal - Leila Essa

Afterword: Rewriting Identities: Conversations about What Might Be - Sarah Colvin
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rezgui Selma:
SELMA REZGUI, MA Oxford, is an editor, translator, and project organizer at the literary institutions LCB and Lettrétage in Berlin, Germany.Sturtz Laura Marie:
LAURA MARIE STURTZ, MA Oxford, is a PhD candidate and research assistant at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg, Germany.Windsor Tara Talwar:
TARA TALWAR WINDSOR is Postdoctoral Research Associate in German at the University of Cambridge, UK.Layne Priscilla:
PRISCILLA LAYNE is Professor of German, with an adjunct appointment in African, African American and Diaspora Studies, at the University of North Carolina.