Series | Diaspore
Volume 20 | Edited book | Literature of (Post-)Migration
Literature of (Post-)Migration
Questions of Complexity and Identity in German-Language Literature in a Globalised Age
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Marta Rosso - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Stefania Sbarra - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
This volume brings together contributions from the international conference "Literatur zwischen Migration und Globalisierung. Formen der Komplexität in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur", which took place in May 2022 at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. It aims to reflect on the literature of migration of the last thirty years and to situate it in the increasingly complex world of our globalised present, crossed by the movements of people and cultures.
The reflections of the individual essays take, as point of departure, the common observation that the literature of (post)migration is characterised by careful linguistic research and radical aesthetic experimentation, capable of interrogating our intercultural reality and of restoring a likewise complex image of the world and of society. The contributors that have converged in the present volume focus on examining the issues of complexity and identity, which, in the texts they discuss, are inextricably linked to the narration of spaces, borders, and movements. In the works of Uljana Wolf, Olga Grjasnowa, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Michael Stavarič, Terézia Mora, Emilia Smechowski, Feridun Zaimoglu, and Sasha Marianna Salzmann, the literary language variously becomes a means to explore new possibilities of meaning, to recover what has been erased, to reconstruct the biographical stratifications inscribed in the bodies, to feel at home in a foreign world, to criticise the historical memory of society, to register bilingualisms, conflicts, and ‘in-betweenness’, and hence to narrate the new forms of identity, of hybrid identity, of postidentity, and of gender identity that are formed as a result of first, second, or third generation migrations and in correspondence with precise geographical and human spaces.
Keywords Postmigrant society • Ellis Island • Postidentity • Geschichts- und Erinnerungskultur • Space and literature • Multikulturalismus • Memory culture • Rückkehr nach Polen • Postmigration • Postmigrantisch • Dance • Biography • Multiculturalism • Identity • Intersectionality • Poetic speech act • Alle Tage • Body • Wir Strebermigranten • Komplexität • Postmigrantische Gesellschaft • Olga Grjasnowa • German literature • Intercultural literature • Normalisation • Sexuality • Control • Tanz • Postmigrantische Literatur • Complexity • Körper • Sasha Marianna Salzmann • Postmigrant • Kontrolle • Austrian literature • Postmonolingualism • Michael Stavarič • “Berliner Republik” • German-Polish relations • Identität • Narrative discourse • Mother tongue • Berlin Republic • Gender • Trauma and literature • Identity and alterity • Grenze • Emilia Smechowski • Border • Postmigrant literature • “Normalisierung” • Multilingualism • Trauma • Migration
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