Interculturality and identity crisis in German literature

Interculturality and identity crisis in German literature after reunification This book examines the problems of interculturality and identity crisis in German literature after reunification. The author takes Christa Wolf's Medea. Voices as his starting point, a novel that depicts the relationships between the patriarchal West (Corinth) and the matriarchal East (Colchis); In other words, two spaces and two cultures (customs and traditions) are in conflict. The dreamt-of, idyllic West is impervious to the mixing of cultures. There, mixed-race children are killed and their mothers banished. This leads to a partopia, a neither-nor situation for Medea; all she has left is her longing for her homeland; the foreign culture is at least an opportunity and a trial run for this character to evaluate her own culture. Another characteristic feature of this book is the fact that Jason - the father of the killed mixed-race children - is nevertheless regarded as a citizen of the world (citoyen du monde). This book also addresses the German-German question after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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NGUEJIP Y. Gérard-Yoyo was born in Batoufam in 1984. After graduating from high school in 2003, he studied trilingual literature (French, English and German) and political science at the University of Dschang, then attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure Maroua, where he studied German as a foreign language. Since 2011, he has been working as a German teacher at several secondary schools.