TY  - JOUR
A1  - Folie, Sandra
T1  - Mutoni im Un/Happyland : die Bürde weißer Retter*innen in Tete Loepers Roman "Barfuß in Deutschland"
T2  - Genealogy+Critique
N2  - In Tete Loeper's novel "Barefoot in Germany" (2020), Black first-person narrator Mutoni from Rwanda recounts her experiences as a marriage migrant, sex worker, maid, and caregiver in Germany, a supposed "Happyland" where racism is considered the offense of "others": bad individuals and Nazis. However, Loeper's white savior characters are both nice people and (unwitting) racists, while some of Mutoni's Black sisters behave in discriminatory ways as well. Drawing on critical race theory and imagology, this article shows how the novel deconstructs and appropriates stereotypical images from "'colorblind' Europe" on both a thematic and formal-aesthetic level. By engaging with a comparative and transnational frame of reference that goes beyond a monolingual white canon of theory and literature, the article reveals the novel's connections to other Black texts and genres, as well as its literary strategies in dealing with identity (politics).
KW  - Einwanderung <Motiv>
KW  - Rassismus <Motiv>
KW  - Critical race theory
KW  - Loeper, Tete
KW  - Loeper, Tete: Barefoot in Germany
KW  - Imagology
KW  - White saviorism
KW  - Slave narrative
KW  - African European literature
KW  - Imagologie
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/83548
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-835481
SN  - 2755-0923
N1  - Gefördert durch die Europäische Union (ERC, AFROPEA, Grant agreement no. 101075842)
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
SP  - 2
EP  - 22
PB  - Open Library of Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
CY  - London
ER  -