Right to Difference

Right to Difference

Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature

Coleman, Nicole

The University of Michigan Press

10/2021

280

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Inglês

9780472132751

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction
Beginnings
Political Contexts: Right-Wing Extremism in Contemporary Germany
From Diversity to Interculturality in German Studies
Organization of the Book
Chapter 1: Difference-The Link Between Interculturality and Human Rights
Definitions
Thinking Human Rights from a Right to Difference
A New Model of Intercultural Competence
Human Rights Literature
Empathy for Intercultural Competence: Insights from Cognitive Criticism
Moving Forward: Reading Human Rights Texts with an Intercultural Lens
Chapter 2: Other Neighbors: Genocide as a Crime of Cultural Exclusion in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Nicol Ljubic's The Stillness of the Sea
Genocide as a Crime of Cultural Exclusion and Its Remediation through Trials and Literature
Schlink's and Ljubic's Literary Case Studies
Schlink's The Reader: Cultural Ignorance and Universalist Empathy for a Perpetrator Generation
Ljubic's The Stillness of the Sea: Intercultural Answers to Cultural Exclusion
Concluding Thoughts and Pedagogical Approaches: Universalism and Interculturality for Spaces of Reconciliation
Chapter 3: Imprisoning Others: Captivity and Alienation in Herta MUEller's The Hunger Angel and Abbas Khider's Die Orangen des PrAEsidenten
The Imprisonment of Rightless Others
MUEller's and Khider's Transnational Narratives of Captivity
MUEller's The Hunger Angel: Losing Oneself, Language, and Certitudes
Khider's Die Orangen des PrAEsidenten: The Political Prison as a Universal Rightless Space
Concluding Thoughts and Pedagogical Approaches: Deconstructing Exclusion through Alienation and Difference
Chapter 4: Exclusive Communities: Expulsion in Sabrina Janesch's Katzenberge and GUEnter Grass's The Call of the Toad
Heimat Ideologies and Cultural Exclusion in Intercultural Eastern Europe
Janesch's and Grass's Literatures of Expulsion
Janesch's Katzenberge: The Re-Interculturalization of Silesia
Grass's The Call of the Toad: Intercultural Layers of Expulsion
Concluding Thoughts and Pedagogical Approaches: Deconstructing Heimat and Nostalgia in Reflective Intercultural Texts
Chapter 5: Becoming other: Refugees in Germany in Jenny Erpenbeck's Go, Went, Gone and Shida Bazyar's Nachts ist es leise in Teheran
Refugee Rights and the Performance of Threat
Erpenbeck's and Bazyar's Refugee Narratives
Erpenbeck's Go, Went, Gone: Universalist Empathy for o/Others
Bazyar's Nachts ist es leise in Teheran: Intercultural Perspectives of Migration and Exile
Concluding Thoughts and Pedagogical Approaches: Telling Stories of Difference for an Intercultural German Society
Conclusion: Literatures of Uncertainty for an Uncertain World
Notes
Bibliography
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contemporary German literature; human rights; intercultural competence; refugees; migrants; migration; intercultural literature; migrantliterature; German culture; diversity; decolonization; intercultural pedagogy; anti-racist pedagogy; social justice; cultural difference; genocide; imprisonment, torture, expulsion, nationalism, racism; Jenny Erpenbeck; Shida Bazyar; Sabrina Janesch; Abbas Khider; Günter Grass; NicolLjubic; Bernhard Schlink; Herta Müller; the Mediterranean; Middle East; Iran; Iraq; Poland; Bosnia; Germany