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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kofer, Martina
• Zhang, Chunjie

Titel

From Colonialism to Contemporary Racism: Retelling (Male) Master Narratives from the Perspective of Marginalized Women in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Fictional Texts

Ist Teil von

• Gender and German Colonialism, 2024, p.260-282

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "meine heimat/ist/heute/der raum zwischen/gestern und morgen" (my homeland/today/is/the space between/yesterday and tomorrow), Afro-German poet May Ayim proclaims in the first line of her poem "Auskunft" (Information).1 The space-or spaces-between yesterday and tomorrow, and their decisive influence on the present moment and on individual subjectivity, are also central to the texts of Sharon Dodua Otoo, a Black British writer who lives in Berlin and was the first Black author to be awarded the renowned Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her short story, Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin (Herr Gröttrup takes a seat) in 2016. The use of creative and at times surreal narrators is one, but by no means the only, literary device Dodua Otoo experiments with. Particularly her 2021 novel, Adas Raum (Ada's Realm) works with complex temporal strategies and juggles multiple storylines, interweaving characters and historical events.