African Diasporas: Afro-German Literature in the Context of the African American ExperienceLit, 2006 - 136 pages This book investigates the development of Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience and shows the decisive role of literature for the emergence of the Afro-German Movement. Various Afro-German literary and cultural initiatives, which began in the 1980s, arose as a response to the experience of being marginalized - to the point of invisibility - within a dominant Eurocentric culture that could not bring the notions of "Black" and "German" together in a meaningful way. The book is a significant contribution to the understanding of German literature as multi-ethnic and of the the transatlantic networks operating in the African Diasporas. |
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Heritage Lost and Found | 32 |
Fragment | 43 |
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