Queer, Working-Class and Kurdish Experiences. Narrative Interventions in Contemporary German Literature
Date: 8 March 2023, 5.00-6.30 p.m. (GMT)
A hybrid event: In person (Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College) & online
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On International Womxn鈥檚 Day, writers Fatma Aydemir and Karosh Taha will join Dr Maha El Hissy, Miriam Schwarz and Dr Tara Talwar Windsor to talk about representations of Queer, working-class and postmigrant, especially Kurdish, experiences in German literature.
This panel will offer a space to think critically about the kind of marginalised voices and stories that can be told in the contemporary German literary scene. As considerations of queerness and gender currently tend to be left out of discussions around racist realities in Germany, this panel aims to foreground intersectional perspectives on postmigrant experiences. At the centre of the discussion will be Aydemir鈥檚 Dschinns听(Hanser, 2022) [Djinns] and Taha鈥檚 Im Bauch der K枚nigin (DuMont, 2020) [In the Belly of the Queen, V&Q Books, 2023, trans. by Grashina Gabelmann]. With innovative aesthetics and narrative structures, Aydemir鈥檚 and Taha鈥檚 writing intervenes in traditional forms of storytelling and opens new pathways of thinking and analysis.听
The event will be in English. Drinks reception after the event.听
With generous support from the 海角社区 DAAD Research Hub, the Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland, Women in German Studies, the Schroeder fund, the Tiarks fund, the 海角社区 Q+ Network and Newnham College.
