{"product_id":"the-right-to-difference-9780472132751","title":"The Right to Difference","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines novels that depict human rights violations in order to explore causes of intergroup violence within diverse societies, using Germany as a test case. In these texts, the book shows that an exaggeration of difference between minority and majority groups leads to violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeginnings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitical Contexts: Right-Wing Extremism in Contemporary Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Diversity to Interculturality in German Studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrganization of the Book\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Difference-The Link Between Interculturality and Human Rights\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDefinitions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThinking Human Rights from a Right to Difference\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA New Model of Intercultural Competence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHuman Rights Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmpathy for Intercultural Competence: Insights from Cognitive Criticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoving Forward: Reading Human Rights Texts with an Intercultural Lens\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Other Neighbors: Genocide as a Crime of Cultural Exclusion in Bernhard Schlink's \u003ci\u003eThe Reader \u003c\/i\u003eand Nicol Ljubic's \u003ci\u003eThe Stillness of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Genocide as a Crime of Cultural Exclusion and Its Remediation through Trials and Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSchlink's and Ljubic's Literary Case Studies\u003cbr\u003e Schlink's \u003ci\u003eThe Reader: \u003c\/i\u003eCultural Ignorance and Universalist Empathy for a Perpetrator Generation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLjubic's \u003ci\u003eThe Stillness of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e: Intercultural Answers to Cultural Exclusion\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Thoughts and Pedagogical Approaches: Universalism and Interculturality for Spaces of Reconciliation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Imprisoning Others: Captivity and Alienation in Herta MÜller's \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Angel \u003c\/i\u003eand Abbas Khider's \u003ci\u003eDie Orangen des PrÄsidenten\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Imprisonment of Rightless Others\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMÜller's and Khider's Transnational Narratives of Captivity\u003cbr\u003e MÜller's \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Angel\u003c\/i\u003e: Losing Oneself, Language, and Certitudes\u003cbr\u003e Khider's \u003ci\u003eDie Orangen des PrÄsidenten: \u003c\/i\u003eThe Political Prison as a Universal Rightless Space\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Thoughts and Pedagogical Approaches: Deconstructing Exclusion through Alienation and Difference\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Exclusive Communities: Expulsion in Sabrina Janesch's \u003ci\u003eKatzenberge \u003c\/i\u003eand GÜnter Grass's \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Toad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeimat \u003c\/i\u003eIdeologies and Cultural Exclusion in Intercultural Eastern Europe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanesch's and Grass's Literatures of Expulsion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanesch's \u003ci\u003eKatzenberge\u003c\/i\u003e: The Re-Interculturalization of Silesia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrass's \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Toad\u003c\/i\u003e: Intercultural Layers of Expulsion\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Thoughts and Pedagogical Approaches: Deconstructing \u003ci\u003eHeimat \u003c\/i\u003eand Nostalgia in Reflective Intercultural Texts\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Becoming other: Refugees in Germany in Jenny Erpenbeck's \u003ci\u003eGo, Went, Gone \u003c\/i\u003eand Shida Bazyar's \u003ci\u003eNachts ist es leise in Teheran\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefugee Rights and the Performance of Threat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eErpenbeck's and Bazyar's Refugee Narratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eErpenbeck's \u003ci\u003eGo, Went, Gone: \u003c\/i\u003eUniversalist Empathy for o\/Others\u003cbr\u003e Bazyar's \u003ci\u003eNachts ist es leise in Teheran: \u003c\/i\u003eIntercultural Perspectives of Migration and Exile\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Thoughts and Pedagogical Approaches: Telling Stories of Difference for an Intercultural German Society\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Literatures of Uncertainty for an Uncertain World\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"LUP - University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037190422871,"sku":"9780472132751","price":64.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780472132751.jpg?v=1750934722","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-right-to-difference-9780472132751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}