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Author Fachinger, Petra, 1958-

Title Rewriting Germany from the margins : "other" German literature of the 1980s and 1990s / Petra Fachinger
Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 159 pages)
Contents Writing back to Keller and Goethe: Franco Biondi and Akif Pirinçci -- (Post)colonial picaresque: Kerstin Jentzsch and Thomas Brussig -- Re-placing language: the poetry of Zehra Çirak and José Oliver -- Rewriting home: the border writing of Barbara Honigmann and Renan Demirkan -- Rewriting autobiography: Lea Fleischmann and Richard Chaim Schneider -- Rewriting Turkey: Barbara Frischmuth and Hanne Mede-Flock -- Writing back to liberal discourse: Feridun Zaimoglu's grotesque realism
Summary "The "margins" in Petra Fachinger's work are occupied largely by second-generation migrant writers from Italy, Spain, 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."--Jacket
Analysis Deutsch Minderheitenliteratur Deutsche (Motiv) Ethnische Identität (Motiv) Geschichte 1980-2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-155) and index
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Subject German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
German literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
German literature
Minderheit Motiv
Minderheitenliteratur
Ethnische Identität Motiv
Literatur
Letterkunde.
Duits.
Migranten.
Deutsche Literatur -- Geschichte 1945-2000.
Minderheitenliteratur -- deutsche -- Geschichte 1945-2000.
Migrantenliteratur -- Deutsch -- Geschichte -- 1980-2000.
Deutsch.
Deutsche <Motiv>
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773569553
0773569553
1282859560
9781282859562