Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Subjectivities, Solidarities, Genealogies
6. 1: Acting from Within: Inclusive Literature and the Power of Writing. A Conversation with Sasha Marianna Salzmann 37
7. 2: Twin Novels: Renegotiating Self and Other in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s Außer sich and Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Serpentinen Angst 56
8. 3: New Black German Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century 83
9. 4: Talking Back, Paying Forward: Dialogism and Literary Genealogies in May Ayim and Olivia Wenzel 109
10. 5: Black Poetry Matters: A Conversation with Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo 135
11. Part II Disruptions, Subversions, Interactions
12. 6: Subversive Aesthetics, Embodied Language, and the Politics of Literature: A Conversation with Özlem Özgül Dündar 145
13. 7: Deintegrative Rewriting of the Bildungsroman: Social Criticism from a Postmigrant Perspective in Fatma Aydemir’s Ellbogen (2017) 162
14. 8: Reorienting Knowledge of Structural Systems of Violence in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum and Antje Rávik Strubel’s Blaue Frau 187
15. 9: Epistolary Interventions, Epistemic Insurrections: Creative Writers, Open Letters, and Solidarity with the “Womxn, Life, Freedom” Movement in Contemporary Postmigrant Germany 209
16. 10: Seen as Friendly, Seen as Frightening? A Conversation on Visibilities, Kinship, and the Right Words with Mithu Sanyal 241
17. Afterword: Rewriting Identities: Conversations about What Might Be 255
18. Contributors 261
19. Index 265