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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “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
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
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