Rewriting Germany from the Margins

ISBN-13: 9780773522503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 176 str.

Petra Fachinger

Opis

The margins in Petra Fachinger's work are occupied largely by second-generation migrant writers from Spain, Italy and Turkey, German-Jewish writers of diverse ethnic origins, and writers born in the GDR. Fachinger demonstrates that during the 1980s and 1990s writers from various cultural backgrounds engaged in oppositional discourse to construct their own version of Germany and write back to the German canon. While most studies of texts by minority writers in Germany favour content over form, Fachinger focuses on identifying counter-discursive strategies, and applies postcolonial theory concerned with textual resistance to the German situation. In doing so, this study relates marginal writing in Germany to similar forms of writing in other national and cultural contexts.