Queer, Working-Class and Kurdish Experiences: Narrative Interventions in Contemporary German Literature
This IWD panel offered 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, the panel aimed to foreground intersectional perspectives on postmigrant experiences. At the centre of the discussion were听Aydemir鈥檚 Dschinns (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. The event was generously supported by 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, the 海角社区 Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement and Newnham College.
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