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- Title
Heterogene Stadträume der Globalisierung: Slums in Texten Meineckes, Tawadas und Trojanows.
- Authors
SCHAUB, CHRISTOPH
- Abstract
Against the backdrop of a new transnational discourse about slums since the early 2000s, the article analyses representations of slums located in South Africa, India, and Brazil in texts of three contemporary writers: Thomas Meinecke, Yoko Tawada, and Ilija Trojanow. Their works are engaged in a positive recoding of the cultures of slums as sites of multilingualism, hybridity, and cosmopolitanism. They provide alternative literary representations of slums and add to the existing knowledge about them. The article identifies narrative, thematic, and cultural-political elements that are characteristic for these authors' representations of slums. These elements may serve as steppingstones for a more comprehensive treatment of such heterogenous urban spaces of globalization in literary studies.
- Subjects
GLOBALIZATION; SLUMS; URBAN planning; COSMOPOLITANISM; URBAN renewal
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Interkulturelle Germanistik, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
1869-3660
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14361/zig-2020-110107