Questioning the Canon : : Counter-Discourse and the Minority Perspective in Contemporary German Literature / / Christine Meyer.
To what extent do minority writers feel represented by the literary canon of a nation and its body of "great works"? To what extent do they adhere to, or contest, the supposedly universal values conveyed through those texts and how do they situate their own works within the national tradit...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture & Conflict ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 343 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Endorsements
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Translation
- Introduction
- PART I. The Forms and Foci of Canon Critique
- Chapter 1 Postcolonialism and the Canon
- Chapter 2 Counter-Discursive Strategies: From Metatextuality to Rewriting
- PART II. The Canon and Its Discontents: Palimpsestic Re- Inscriptions in Schami, Özdamar, and Zaimoglu
- Chapter 3 Writing Back from the East: Schami’s Corrective Reading of European Classics
- Chapter 4 Özdamar’s Keloglan in Alamania: The National Tradition Tested by Diversity
- Chapter 5 Reading against the National Grain: Özdamar’s Commitment to Oppositional Literature
- Chapter 6 Claiming Access to the German Canon: Zaimoglu’s Conquering Down-Top Approach
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Notions