This article examines changing discourses of exclusion/inclusion between writers of a non-German background and those whose families have traditionally lived in Germany. Referring to the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, it critiques discourses of difference used in recent decades to describe “migrant” writers in Germany and evaluates some reactions to their writings by the German reading public. With reference to the concept of print-capitalism, the article explores the “new semantic vistas” opened up by migrant writers and the implications of their writing styles for both linguistic and national boundaries. Drawing on original ethnographic interviews with migrant authors, it queries the relevance of binary logic at the beginning of the twenty-first century and argues for greater recognition of the contribution of these writers to the literary landscape in Germany and beyond.
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“Migrant” Writing and the Re-Imagined Community: Discourses of Inclusion/Exclusion
Máiréad Nic Craith
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Jun 2015
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- Research Article
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- 84–99 (15 total)
Belonging in a New Myanmar
Identity, Law, and Gender in the Anthropology of Contemporary Buddhism
Juliane Schober
kingship or even modern print capitalism provided effective social and political rationales. Equally insightful is the work of Birgit Meyer (2009) , who shows that mediated contexts in the contemporary era engender social formations that are informed by
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 158–172 (15 total)
Imagining Peru and the Motherland from the Barracks
Memory, Text, and Image in the 1942 First Year Level Military Manual
Lourdes Hurtado
army to spread their ideas about an imagined community. In his seminal work, Imagined Communities , Benedict Anderson argues that in the nineteenth century, print capitalism (the technological mass production of newspapers and novels and the spread of
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 80–98 (19 total)
Social Intimacy
Andrew Dawson and Simone Dennis
are enabled especially by the consumption of common things and texts (2008). Of course, and as Benedict Anderson (1991) highlighted a long time ago, the key modern form of collectivity enabled by such forms of consumption (largely print capitalism in
Staging Sassoun
Memory and Music Video in Post-Soviet Armenia
Rik Adriaans
truths in the everyday lives of subjects. Nevertheless, they point at the connections between media and national memory in the present age, much like ‘print-capitalism’ was central to imagining the nation in an earlier age ( Anderson 1991 ). Moreover, the
Günter Grass's Literary Nationalism
The Kulturnation from Westphalia to Berlin
Alex Donovan Cole
powers.” But as Benedict Anderson rightly argues, it is not the War alone, but “print-capitalism” that helped create the material conditions for the modern nation-state to emerge. 7 The War represents a point of departure from “pre-modernity” and the
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 86–110 (25 total)
Expectations of the Gift: Toward a Future-Oriented Taxonomy of Transactions
Article with comments and response
Guido Sprenger, Anthony J. Pickles, Ilana Gershon, Joel Robbins, Rebecca Bryant, and Marilyn Strathern
: Money and the Morality of Exchange .” In Money and the Morality of Exchange , ed. Jonathan Parry and Maurice Bloch , 1 – 32 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Pels , Peter . 2018 . “ Anthropology as Science Fiction, or How Print