German 697MV - InterGerm:MinVcesInGerm1960-Pr

This seminar will examine cultural production by minorities in Germany since the 1960s. A central question concerns how texts by minorities from different backgrounds not only voice alternative perspectives on Germany's present, but also develop unique ways of accessing and reconstructing its past. While the main focus is on literature, music and visual objects will be considered as well. Course materials will be theorized as staging various cultural, national, ethnic, and political contexts thereby altering the parameters of established discourses, on key issues such as integration, German national identity, memory and remembrance. In addition to the primary sources, course materials include theoretical texts on concepts of diaspora, exile, and transnationalism as well as secondary sources on minority writing, music, and the history of labor migration. Conducted in German.