Research Project
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Change of Language – Change of Perspective? Multilingualism and Cultural Diversity of Voices in contemporary German-language LiteratureProf. Dr. Gabriella Pelloni / Prof. Dr. Ievgeniia Voloshchuk Funded by the Publikationsfonds für Open-Access-Monografien des Landes Brandenburg and the Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere der Universität Verona |
| Project duration |
2021-2023 |
| Description | The project, in which literary scholars from Germany, Italy, Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic are participating, is being realized as part of a cooperation between the Chiellino Research Centre for Literature and Migration at the Axel Springer Chair for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Exile and Migration at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and the University of Verona. The study focuses on literary voices that articulate the experiences of those who are different or multilingual on the German-language literary stage and thus question seemingly established linguistic constellations. The starting point of the project is the thesis that works by authors with experiences of migration can develop a cultural and aesthetic potential that dissolves homogeneous concepts of identity, undermines national paradigms, and overcomes diverse borders. The contributions to the anthology address the question of the forms and functions in which literary multilingualism is expressed in the processes of transculturation. The specific quality and character of literary multilingualism as well as the interactions with so-called "transcultural writing" among authors with a migration background are examined.
The project results are to be presented in an anthology of the same name, which is currently being prepared for publication by [transcript] Verlag. |
| Publications | Gabriella Pelloni/ Ievgeniia Voloshchuk (Hg.): Sprachwechsel – Perspektivenwechsel? Mehrsprachigkeit und kulturelle Vielstimmigkeit in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2023 |
| Team | Prof. Dr. Ievgeniia Voloshchuk (project leader, EUV Frankfurt/Oder) Prof. Dr. Gabriella Pelloni (project leader, University Verona) Dr. habil. Natalia Blum-Barth (Institute for Technology in Karlsruh) Prof. Renata Cornejo (J.E. Purkyně-University Ústí nad Labem) Prof. Dr. Marek Jakubów (Catholic University Lublin) Prof. Dr. Primus-Heinz Kucher (until 2022 University Klagenfurt) Prof. Dr. Jolanta Pacyniak (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Lublin) Dr. Monika Riedel (Technical University Dortmund) |