Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts: The Postmigrant Condition

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This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and students to the new concept of ‘postmigration’, offering a review of the origin of the concept (in Berlin) and how it has taken on a variety of meanings and works in different ways within different national, cultural and disciplinary contexts. The authors explore postmigrant theory in relation to the visual arts, theater, film and literature as well as the representation of migration and cultural diversity in cultural institutions, offering case studies of postmigrant analyses of contemporary works of art from Europe (mainly Denmark, Germany and Great Britain). Contents List of Illustrations Preface • Moritz Schramm Part I: Postmigration as a Concept (Reception, Histories, Criticism) Introduction: From Artistic Intervention to Academic Discussion • Anne Ring Petersen, Moritz Schramm and Frauke Wiegand 1 Academic Reception • Anne Ring Petersen, Moritz Schramm and Frauke Wiegand 2 Comparing Histories: The United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark • Anne Ring Petersen, Moritz Schramm and Frauke Wiegand 3 Criticism and Perspectives • Anne Ring Petersen, Moritz Schramm and Frauke Wiegand Part II: Postmigration as a Perspective (Art, Literature, Film) Introduction: Towards a Postmigrant Frame of Reading • Sten Pultz Moslund and Anne Ring Petersen 4 ‘Say It Loud!’ A Postmigrant Perspective on Postcolonial Critique in Contemporary Art • Anne Ring Petersen 5 Towards a Postmigrant Reading of Literature: An Analysis of Zadie Smith’s NW • Sten Pultz Moslund 6 Expanding the Concept of Heimat: A Postmigrant Perspective on Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen • Hans Christian Post and Moritz Schramm Part III: Sites of Negotiation (Identity, Language, Institutions) Introduction: Reinventing Identities, Languages and Institutions • Mirjam Gebauer, Sabrina Vitting-Seerup and Frauke Wiegand 7 Identity and Cultural Representations in the Postmigrant Condition • Anne Ring Petersen and Sabrina Vitting-Seerup 8 Postmonolingual Struggles and the Poetry of Uljana Wolf • Mirjam Gebauer 9 Organizing Postmigration in Cultural Institutions: Diversity Work as Intrusion, Potential or Fact? • Sabrina Vitting-Seerup and Frauke Wiegand Part IV: Envisioning the Future 10 Postmigration: From Utopian Fantasy to Future Perspectives • Sten Pultz Moslund, Moritz Schramm and Sabrina Vitting-Seerup Index