Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction - Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar WindsorPART I. SUBJECTIVITIES, SOLIDARITIES, GENEALOGIES 1. Acting from Within: Inclusive Literature and the Power of Writing. A Conversation with Sasha Marianna Salzmann - Selma Rezgui and Laura Marie Sturtz 2. Twin Novels: Re-Negotiating Self and Other in Sasha Marianna Salzmann's Außer Sich and Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst - Laura Marie Sturtz 3. New Black German Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century - Priscilla Layne 4. Talking Back, Paying Forward: Dialogism and Literary Genealogies in May Ayim and Olivia Wenzel - Selma Rezgui 5. Black Poetry Matters: A Conversation with Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo - Jeannette Oholi and Nadiye ÜnsalPART II. DISRUPTIONS, SUBVERSIONS, INTERACTIONS 6. Subversive Aesthetics, Embodied Language, and the Politics of Literature: A Conversation with Özlem Özgül Dündar - Joseph Twist 7. De-integrative Rewriting of the Bildungsroman: Social Criticism from a Postmigrant Perspective in Fatma Aydemir's Ellbogen (2017) - Lea Laura Heim 8. Reorienting Knowledge of Structural Systems of Violence in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Adas Raum and Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau - Alrik Daldrup 9. Epistolary Interventions, Epistemic Insurrections: Creative Writers, Open Letters and Solidarity with the "Womxn, Life, Freedom" Movement in Contemporary Postmigrant Germany - Tara Talwar Windsor 10. Seen as Friendly, Seen as Frightening? A Conversation on Visibilities, Kinship, and the Right Words with Mithu Sanyal - Leila Essa Afterword: Rewriting Identities: Conversations about What Might Be - Sarah Colvin Notes on the Contributors Index

Edited by Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar Windsor