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Flüchtlinge und Fluchterfahrungen in der Gegenwartsliteratur

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The essays focus both on autofictions by authors who recently fled to German speaking countries and on literary depictions of refugees by established authors; they analyze works by a range of writers, from Anna Seghers to Peter Handke, from Sasa Stanisic to Abbas Khider. The contributions to the volume examine how refugee movements challenge traditional concepts of identity and nation but also call into question epistemic and legal conventions. While examining narrative constructions of the ´refugee´, the articles focus especially on literary texts that criticize entrenched patterns of thought and stereotypes, often in a satirical manner. Contemporary literature searches for a language and narration by which to represent the particular states of exception which characterize the refugee experience.

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Alker-Windbichler, Stefan
Dr. Stefan Alker ist Leiter der Fachbereichsbibliothek Germanistik der Universität Wien.

Hardtke, Thomas
Dr. Thomas Hardtke ist seit 2016 Studienrat am Hölderlin-Gymnasium in Nürtingen. Er hat an der Friedrich Schlegel-Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien an der Freien Universität Berlin promoviert.

Kleine, Johannes
Johannes Kleine promoviert an der Friedrich Schlegel-Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien der Freien Universität Berlin.

Payne, Charlton
Prof. Dr. Charlton Payne ist derzeit als Visiting Assistant Professor an der UC Berkeley tätig.

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