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Article: Petra Fachinger. Rewriting Germany from the Margins: "Other" German Literature of the 1980s and 1990s.
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- Germano-Slavica
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xii + 164pp. $65.00.
Petra Fachinger's book is a collection of seven essays dealing mainly with specific works of authors who are in some way outside the mainstream of contemporary German society, yet are nevertheless writing for a German-speaking audience. The authors treated fall into three different groups: minority culture authors (Franco Biondi, Akif Pirincci, Zehra Cirak, Jose Oliver, Renan Demirkan, Feridun Zaimoglu), Jewish-German authors (Barbara Honigmann, Lea Fleischmann, Richard Chaim Schneider), and German-speaking authors who have some claim to marginalization (Kerstin Jentzsch and Thomas ...