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Internationalen Schulleistungsuntersuchungen wie PISA und PIRLS zufolge lesen österreichische Schüler/innen weder gern noch besonders oft oder gut. Nachdem die Einführung der Zentralmatura im Schuljahr 2014/15 Ängste schürte, dass die Literatur gänzlich aus dem Unterricht verschwinden könnte, gab Wiens (damalige) Stadtschulratspräsidentin Susanne Brandsteidl eine allgemein verbindliche Leseliste für Schüler/innen in Auftrag. Mit dem rund 200 Werke umfassenden Ergebnis beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag. Nach einer Erörterung jener Gründe, die zur Initiierung der Liste geführt haben, wird durch eine intersektionale Analyse mit Fokus auf die Geschlechterverteilung und Herkunft der Autor/innen und literarischen Protagonist/innen die stereotypenreproduzierende Gefahr eines Literaturkanons aufgezeigt, dessen Durchschnittspublikationsjahr im frühen 19. Jahrhundert liegt und dessen Werke hauptsächlich von weißen Männern stammen.
Mutoni im Un/Happyland : die Bürde weißer Retter*innen in Tete Loepers Roman "Barfuß in Deutschland"
(2023)
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).
This contribution gathers eight interviews with international scholars of different generations and disciplines who study Black European literatures: Elisabeth Bekers, Jeannot Moukouri Ekobe, Polo B. Moji, Deborah Nyangulu, Jeannette Oholi, Anne Potjans, Nadjib Sadikou, and Dominic Thomas. The aim is to make literary research on Black Europe more visible to scholars in comparative literature and to contribute to a discussion on research perspectives, theories, and future challenges and needs.
The introduction informs about Black literary imaginations of Europe that reverse or complicate the (neo-)colonialist European gaze at the "African Other". It reviews the state of research and provides an overview of the aims and sources of the special issue, whose individual contributions take into account both national specificities and transnational contexts. Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco emphasise the important role of comparative literature for the field of African European studies (and vice-versa).
This article compares Chika Unigwe's novel "On Black Sisters' Street" and Sudabeh Mortezai's film "Joy", both about Nigerian women trafficked for sex work to Belgium and Austria respectively. They share a genre genealogy with slave narratives but are primarily concerned with European (neo-)colonialism. Drawing on postcolonial and intersectional theory as well as imagology, this article analyses the Black female re-imagination and strategic exoticisation of Europe in the two narratives.