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TheManyVoicesofEurope Culture & Conflict Edited by Isabel Capeloa Gil, Catherine Nesci and Paulo de Medeiros Editorial Board ArjunAppadurai⋅ClaudiaBenthien⋅ElisabethBronfen⋅JoyceGoggin⋅ BishnupriyaGhosh⋅LawrenceGrossberg⋅AndreasHuyssen⋅AnsgarNünning⋅ NaomiSegal⋅MárcioSeligmann-Silva⋅AntónioSousaRibeiro⋅RobertoVecchi. SamuelWeber⋅LilianeWeissberg⋅ChristophWulf⋅LongxiZhang Volume 15 ISBN978-3-11-061526-5 e-ISBN(PDF)978-3-11-064578-1 e-ISBN(EPUB)978-3-11-064610-8 ISSN2194-7104 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationNumber:2019949479 BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableontheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. ©2020WalterdeGruyterGmbH,Berlin/Boston Coverimage:EdmundLowePhotography/Moment/GettyImages Typesetting:IntegraSoftwareServicesPvt.Ltd. Printingandbinding:CPIbooksGmbH,Leck www.degruyter.com This book is dedicated in loving memory to our dear colleague, mentor, and friend, Gisela Brinker-Gabler, whose warmth and wisdom have inspired many andwillbeforevermissed. Contents GiselaBrinker-GablerandNicoleShea Introduction 1 Part I:CrossingBorders: (Re)configuring Identities VanessaD.Plumly LinkedSecurityand“RhetoricalEthics”:BreakingFramesandOpening CracksofIdentificationthroughtheNarrativeFissuresofOlumide PopoolaandAnnieHolmes’sbreach(2016) 13 RebeccaForney Negotiation/négationofDoubleNamesinAssiaDjebar’s“Lecorpsde Félicie” 30 NasimDarouie ImageandIdentityintheDiasporicGraphicAutobiographyPersepolis 40 Part II:Shifting Frontiersof NationalBelonging GiovanniDettori NewCulturesofItalianMigration 53 JocelynWright IntegrationandtheFrenchBanlieue:ReadingAhmedDjouder’s Désintégration(2006)andPhilippeFaucon’sDésintégration(2012) 62 GiselaBrinker-Gabler TranslocalConstellations:NavigationsofMobilityandEmplacementand EmineSevgiÖzdamar’sStory“TheCourtyardintheMirror” 73 Part III:ANewEuropeOn DifferentGrounds JeroenGerrits RaúlRuiz’sAdaptationofTheBlindOwl:AnExilicModelforEurope 85 VIII Contents RenataSchellenberg ThePost-YugoslavLiteratureofDubravkaUgrešić 103 ElkeSegelcke OccidentandOrient:“PoeticsofMovement”intheWorksofZafer Şenocak 115 Part IV: MaxiObexer,Playwright, Novelist,Activist FriederikeEigler RefugeeandMigrantVoicesOnandOfftheDocumentaryTheaterStage: RecentWorksbyMaxiObexer 129 MaxiObexer TheLongestSummer 150 AstridWeigert “RevealingThatWhichIsHidden:”InterviewwithMaxi(Margareth) Obexer:Playwright,Novelist,Activist 159 NotesonContributors 171 Index 175 GiselaBrinker-Gablerand NicoleShea Introduction Aswecomeclosertothebeginningofthethirddecadeofthetwenty-firstcentury, the lives of millions of people have been shaped by the experiences of mobility andmigration.Forthefirsttimeinhumanhistory,allcontinentsareinvolvedin themassmovementsofpeople.Thisanthologyattendstothe criticalmomentof these wide-ranging processes with a specific focus on the accelerated pace of changes across Europe in recent years as well as the emerging interactions be- tweenEuropeandtheworldshapingnewformsofliteratureandculture,theories andcriticism.Theessaysofthiscollectionexploretheevolving,richbodyofcon- temporaryculturalpracticesaswellasreflectionsonacommonEuropeanproject of diversity. The authors herein interrogate new dialogic dynamics between and acrossculturesinEuropeaswellasEurope and itsrelationshipswiththeworld. The Many Voices of Europe includes essays by promising junior researchers and senior scholars presented at two international conferences organized by the CouncilforEuropeanStudies:aconferenceinGlasgow,UnitedKingdom,in2017 andinChicago,USA,in2018. The unique contribution of our collection in the field of literary studies of Europeliesinits interdisciplinary,transnationalandcomparative perspective, which will invite manyreaders fromdiverse disciplinary directionsand stimu- late new research on the ambitious writing and thinking across borders of the manyvoicesofEuropetoday. AcrossEurope,therearecontinuouscallsfortraditionalnationalidentities as well as proposals for new forms of trans/national/cultural identities and communities, assertions of regionalized identities, proclamations of multicul- turalism and declarations of multilingualism. Several essays in this collection attendtothiscriticalmomentwiththeanalysisoftherecentliteratureofmigra- tionasa(re)writingofEuropeansubjects.Fromavarietyoftheoreticalandcrit- ical standpoints that have been developed in the last decades, they engage many questions. How are migrants writing new identities into and against the old national (meta)narratives? Through what means are they interrogating the grounds of multiple identity constructions? What experimentations with form inliterature–e.g.thegraphicnovelorinavant-gardefilm–emergeinthisun- stablecontext?Finally,whatimpactmightnewformsofsubjectivityhaveupon the(de)constructionofnationalidentitiesinthenewEurope? A transcultural reflection on new forms of mobile and migrant literature and a European project of diversity requires a careful consideration of the ter- minologyusedandtheconceptsapplied,aswellasanawarenessoftheorigins https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110645781001 2 GiselaBrinker-GablerandNicoleShea and motivations for particular approaches. Therefore, this collection also at- tendstothefollowingquestions:Howdocriticalapproaches,suchastransna- tionalism and transculturality, cosmopolitanism and hybridity, blur political borders and cultural edges and call attention to the reality of cultural, artistic and political diffusion, influence and integration of a new Europe thereby af- fectingsocietiesatlarge?Howdorecenttheoreticalreflectionsonliteraturesof migration and their possible contributions to a cultural production of Europe influence nations and their partnerships within and without, that is, partner- ships with their neighbors, and the relationships with the world moving for- ward? The essays of The Many Voices of Europe respond to expectation and demand for a Europe becoming more diverse and inclusive, reclaiming spaces of creation and representation for trans/national subjects and underrepre- sentedgroups.Theneedfordiversityandinclusionisallthemoreimportantin this political moment of rising xenophobia and increased challenges of reli- giousandcivilizationalconflictsintoday’sEurope. 1 Crossing borders, (re)configuring identities IncurrentWesterndiscourse,especiallyinEuropeandtheUnitedStates,secu- rityandhow to secure bordershave takencenterstage asfundamental topics. Asweexperiencetoday(inlate2018),thealarminganddistressingnewsofthe move of thousands of immigrants, named the “caravan,” which keeps the Mexican-USborderinthenews,and,in2016,thechannelbetweenFranceand EnglandandthebordercityofCalaishavebecometopnews.Migrantsandref- ugees streaming into Europe since 2015 have clustered around the French site and built a tent city known as “The Jungle,” hoping to settle in Britain. The publisher Meike Ziervogel commissioned Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes togotothecampandcollectstoriesofpeopletherewiththeirhopes,escapes, desperationsandsurvivalstrategies.VanessaPlumblyfocusesonPopoolaand Holmes’ book breach, a polyphonic fictional text that incorporates eight short storiesbasedoninterviewscompletedin“TheJungle”andarticulatestheambi- guityofa“borderfence.”Thepoliticallyunsettlingcollectionwithdiverseand nuanced stories aroused immediate attention and inspired debates on how to dealwiththishumanitarianchallengeandhowtoshoweffectiveengagement. Drawingonnewnarrativemodelsthatemphasizea“breach”orcracksandfis- sures as powerful tools for recognizing and understanding trans/national sub- jectsandspaces,Plumbly’sessaydemonstratesthepositiveaffectandeffectof expandingnetworksandconnectionsforanewlyconstructedalteredreality.

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