Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany
Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions
1st Edition
Published on 29. October 2024
256 pages
978-1-80543-378-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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Selma Rezgui | Laura Marie Sturtz | Tara Talwar Windsor
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Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions
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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.
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.
Content
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
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
