African Diasporas: Afro-German Literature in the Context of the African American ExperiencePosted in Books, Europe, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Monographs, United States on 2011-11-11 04:57Z by Steven |
African Diasporas: Afro-German Literature in the Context of the African American Experience
Lit Verlag
2006
144 pages
ISBN: 3-8258-9612-9
Aija Poikane-Daumke
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.