Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990

Ela Gezen is Associate Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

“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

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne, Jonathan SkolnikChapter 1. Refugee-Migrant-ImmigrantEsther DischereitChapter 2. “Strange Stars” in Constellation: Özdamar, Lasker-Schüler, and the ArchiveKristin DickinsonChapter 3. Jewish Tales from a Muslim Turkish Pen: Feridun Zaimoğlu and Moses in OberammergauJoshua ShellyChapter 4. Schwarz tragen: Blackness, Performance, and the Utopian in Contemporary German TheaterOlivia LandryChapter 5. German Comedians Combatting Racist Stereotypes and Discrimination: Oliver Polak, Dave Davis, and Serdar SomuncuBritta KallinChapter 6. Dialogue and Intersection in German Holocaust Memory Culture: Stumbling Blocks and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of EuropeNick BlockChapter 7. Young, Diverse, and Polyglot: Ilker Çatak and Amelia Umuhire Track the New Urban Sound of EuropeBerna GueneliChapter 8. Subjunctive Remembering; Contingent Resistance: Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht EstherMaya CaspariChapter 9. Posthumanism and Object-Oriented Ontology in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Synchronicity (2014) and Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin (2016)Evan TornerChapter 10. Future Narrative as Contested Ground: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s “On the Train” and Michael Götting’s ContrapunctusLeslie AdelsonIndex