TY  - CHAP
A1  - Zocco, Gianna
T1  - The fall of the Berlin Wall transnational : images and stereotypes in Yadé Kara's "Selam Berlin" and Paul Beatty's "Slumberland"
T2  - New perspectives on imagology / edited by Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco ; Studia Imagologica ; 30
N2  - The fall of the Berlin Wall and its literary representations have often been described as a purely (white) German affair, as a discourse regarding (East/West) German identity. Taking on Leerssen's claim for a trans-/postnational imagology, this article provides an analysis of two novels depicting the fall of the Berlin Wall from transnational, not-(only)-German perspectives: Yadé Kara's "Selam Berlin" (2003) and Paul Beatty's "Slumberland" (2008). Comparing images and stereotypes used by both the Turkish-German narrator of Kara's and the African American narrator of Beatty's novel, it aims to undertake an exemplary case study of how imagology may be employed in contexts characterized by complex interferences of national, ethnic/racial, and urban ascriptions of belonging.
KW  - Kara, Yadé
KW  - Selam Berlin
KW  - Beatty, Paul
KW  - Wiedervereinigung <Deutschland>
KW  - Berlin <Motiv>
KW  - Beatty, Paul: Slumberland
KW  - Transnationalism
KW  - German reunification
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70987
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-709874
UR  - https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004513150/BP000016.pdf
SN  - 978-90-04-51315-0
SN  - 978-90-04-45012-7
SN  - 0927-4065
SP  - 131
EP  - 150
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden ; Boston
ER  -