Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990

by Ela Gezen (Editor), Priscilla Layne (Editor), Jonathan Skolnik (Editor)

Overview

While German unification promised a new historical beginning, it also stirred discussions about contemporary Germany’s Nazi past and ideas of citizenship and belonging in a changing Europe. Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990 explores the intersections and divergences between Black German, Turkish German, and German Jewish experiences, with reflections on the evolving academic paradigms with which these are studied. Informed by comparative approaches, the volume investigates social and aesthetic interventions into contemporary German public and political discourse on memory, racism, citizenship, immigration, and history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800734272
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	04/08/2022
Series:	Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association , #23
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Ela Gezen is Associate Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Priscilla Layne is Associate Professor of German and Adjunct Associate Professor of African and African American Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jonathan Skolnik is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990
Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne, Jonathan Skolnik

Chapter 1. Refugee-Migrant-Immigrant
Esther Dischereit

Chapter 2. “Strange Stars” in Constellation: Özdamar, Lasker-Schüler, and the Archive
Kristin Dickinson

Chapter 3. Jewish Tales from a Muslim Turkish Pen: Feridun Zaimoğlu and Moses in Oberammergau
Joshua Shelly

Chapter 4. Schwarz tragen: Blackness, Performance, and the Utopian in Contemporary German Theater
Olivia Landry

Chapter 5. German Comedians Combatting Racist Stereotypes and Discrimination: Oliver Polak, Dave Davis, and Serdar Somuncu
Britta Kallin

Chapter 6. Dialogue and Intersection in German Holocaust Memory Culture: Stumbling Blocks and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Nick Block

Chapter 7. Young, Diverse, and Polyglot: Ilker Çatak and Amelia Umuhire Track the New Urban Sound of Europe
Berna Gueneli

Chapter 8. Subjunctive Remembering; Contingent Resistance: Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht Esther
Maya Caspari

Chapter 9. Posthumanism and Object-Oriented Ontology in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Synchronicity (2014) and Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin (2016)
Evan Torner

Chapter 10. Future Narrative as Contested Ground: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s “On the Train” and Michael Götting’s Contrapunctus
Leslie Adelson

Index

Editorial Reviews

“The strengths of the volume are based in the depth and breadth of the analyses…The chapters function as stand-alone analyses. At the same time, they share a commitment to reading, writing, and thinking across and beyond the borders of white Germanistik…Each contributor is carefully and differently attuned to the need to decolonize German studies from a spectrum of positions, with reference to a growing archive of creative, performative, and political interventions from German-speaking and polylin-gual Europe.” • German Studies Review

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