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The "margins" in Petra Fachinger's work are occupied largely by second-generation migrant writers from Spain, Italy, and Turkey, German Jewish writers of diverse ethnic origins, and writers born in the GDR. She demonstrates that during the 1980s and 1990s writers from various cultural backgrounds engaged in oppositional discourse to construct their own version of Germany and write back to the German canon. While most studies of texts by minority writers in Germany favour content over form, Fachinger focuses on identifying counter-discursive strategies, and applies postcolonial theory concerned with textual resistance to the German situation. In doing so, this study effectively relates marginal writing in Germany to similar forms of writing in other national and cultural contexts. The oppositional impulse, whether manifested in counter-canonical discourse, postcolonial picaresque, hybridity, rewriting of genre, or grotesque realism, is prompted by the exclusionary politics of the dominant culture. The discursive strategies used by the authors discussed to rewrite Germany expose the assumptions that underlie German public discourse and destabilize notions of Germanness, Jewishness, and Turkishness. Fachinger's reading of texts by marginal writers in Germany, all of whom endeavour to resist marginalization while simultaneously experiencing or even celebrating the margin as a site of empowerment, was motivated by the absence of comparative studies of such writing. Rewriting Germany from the Margins demonstrates the necessity and usefulness of comparative approaches to minority discourses across national and cultural borders.
German literature --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors
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American drama --- Commonwealth drama (English) --- Decolonization in literature --- English drama --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Intercultural communication in literature --- Minorities in literature --- Postcolonialism --- Theater --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- History
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This text is designed to introduce students not only to ethnic American writers, but also to the cultural contexts and literary traditions in which their work is situated.
American literature --- Minorities --- African Americans in literature --- Mexican Americans in literature --- Asian Americans in literature --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Minorities in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Indians in literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life
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Some of the most innovative writers of contemporary literature are writing in diaspora in their second or third language. Here Azade Seyhan describes the domain of transnational poetics they inhabit. She begins by examining the works of selected bilingual and bicultural writers of the United States (including Oscar Hijuelos, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eva Hoffman) and Germany (Libuse Moníková, Rafik Schami, and E. S. Özdamar, among others), developing a new framework for understanding the relationship between displacement, memory, and language. Considering themes of loss, witness, translation, identity, and exclusion, Seyhan interprets diasporic literatures as condensed archives of cultural and linguistic memory that give integrity and coherence to pasts ruptured by migration. The book next compares works by contemporary Chicana and Turkish-German women writers as innovative and sovereign literary voices within the larger national cultures of the United States and Germany. Seyhan identifies in American multiculturalism critical clues for analyzing new cultural formations in Europe and maintains that Germany's cultural transformation suggests new ways of reading the American literary mosaic. Her approach, however, extends well beyond these two literatures. She creates a critical map of a "third geography," where a transnational, multilingual literary movement is gathering momentum. Writing Outside the Nation both contributes to and departs from postcolonial studies in that it focuses specifically on transnational writers working outside of their "mother tongue" and compares American and German diasporic literatures within a sophisticated conceptual framework. It illustrates how literature's symbolic economy can reclaim lost personal and national histories, as well as connect disparate and distant cultural traditions.
82:3 --- 82.03 --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Vertalen. Literaire vertaling --- Immigrants' writings --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Multiculturalism. --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors --- 82.03 Vertalen. Literaire vertaling --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Multiculturalism --- Writings of immigrants --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Government policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism --- Minority authors&delete&
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American literature --- American literature --- American literature --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Literature and history --- Memory in literature. --- Minorities in literature. --- Minority women in literature. --- Minority women --- Women and literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Intellectual life. --- History
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City and town life in literature --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Ethnische groepen in de literatuur --- Groupes ethniques dans la littérature --- Los Angeles (Calif.) dans la litterature --- Los Angeles (Calif.) in de literatuur --- Los Angeles (Calif.) in literature --- Minderheden in de literatuur --- Minorities in literature --- Minorités dans la littérature --- Race dans la littérature --- Race in literature --- Ras in de literatuur --- Stadsleven in de literatuur --- Vie urbaine dans la littérature --- American literature --- Authors, American --- City and town life in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Ethnic groups --- Minorities in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Homes and haunts --- History and criticism --- California --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Intellectual life
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English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- English fiction --- Commonwealth fiction (English) --- Postcolonialism --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Exoticism in literature. --- Canon (Literature) --- Postcolonialism. --- Roman anglais --- Roman du Commonwealth (anglais) --- Postcolonialisme --- Multiculturalisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Groupes ethniques dans la littérature --- Exotisme dans la littérature --- Chefs-d'oeuvre (Littérature) --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Auteurs issus des minorités --- Histoire et critique --- 82:93 --- Literatuur en geschiedenis --- Fiction --- Man Booker Prize --- Appreciation --- History --- Publishing --- History. --- 82:93 Literatuur en geschiedenis --- Canon (Literature). --- History and criticism --- Multiculturalisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Groupes ethniques dans la littérature --- Exotisme dans la littérature --- Chefs-d'oeuvre (Littérature) --- Auteurs issus des minorités --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Exoticism in literature --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Booker McConnell Prize --- Booker Prize --- Literary prizes --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- Minority authors&delete& --- Philosophy --- Decolonisation dans la litterature --- Minorites ethniques --- Multiculturalisme dans la litterature --- Orientalisme (litterature)
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