Susanne Gehrmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 128574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Gehrmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Gehrmann |
| SIGNATURE | GEHRMANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concern Worldwide US |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4462-7836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hommage à Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
La genèse des traductions allemandes de Senghor au prisme des archives berlinoises
À partir de lectures de documents issus des archives de Janheinz Jahn et d’Erica de Bary conservées à la Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, cet article retrace la genèse des traductions allemandes de l’œuvre poétique de Léopold Sédar Senghor. Alors qu’Erica de Bary n’a pas réussi à publier les poèmes de Senghor qu’elle avait traduits dans le cadre de son projet visant à élaborer une version allemande intégrale de l’Anthologie de 1948, son travail a …
The world is a bar
Taking recent debates on ‘How to write Africa’ in general and the allegations of sexism in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s novel Tram 83 in particular as a starting point, I analyze three texts by the Austria-based Congolese author in this article. Considering the scope of each text, namely Tram 83 (2014), the play Zu der Zeit der Königinmutter (The Times of the Queen Mother, 2018), and the latest novel La danse du vilain (The Dance of the Villain, 2020),…
Alem, Kangni
Der erste Roman des zuvor als Theaterautor bekannten Autors spielt in dem fiktiven westafrikanischen Staat TiBrava und in Rückblenden und Vorausschau in Frankreich. Durch den Titel und das vorangestellte Zitat „Now into the Jungle“ aus der Togo Brava Suite von Duke Ellington werden von vornherein Bezüge zum Heimatland des Autors sowie zum Jazz als stilbildendem Element des Romans hergestellt.
Ken Bugul
Der dritte autobiographische Roman der Autorin, Schlusstitel einer Trilogie, erzählt von Ken Buguls Ehe mit einem polygamen Islamgelehrten, die sie nach ihrer Rückkehr aus Europa nach Senegal einging.
Alem, Kangni
Studium der Literaturwissenschaft in Lomé; 1989 Gründung des Atelier Théâtre de Lomé; Dramaturg und Schauspieler; in den 1990er Jahren Exil; 1999 Promotion über den algerischen Autor R. Boudjedra in Bordeaux; nach dem Regimewechsel 2005 Rückkehr nach Togo; Romancier, Theaterautor, Übersetzer und Professor für Literatur an der Universität Lomé, Initiator des größten Literaturfestivals Togos; Politikberater und Mitglied in internationalen Gremien d…
Diop, David
Ken Bugul
Das 1981 in Dakar erschienene Erstlingswerk der Autorin war ein Skandalerfolg, schrieb doch das erste Mal eine Senegalesin freimütig über vielfältige sexuelle Erfahrungen.
Mengestu, Dinaw
Congolese Child Soldier Narratives for Global and Local Audiences
The article examines narratives by and about former child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a hitherto neglected corpus despite the topicality of child soldiering in African literatures after 2000. Critical readings of three testimonial texts that have been published in France are juxtaposed with the analysis of one testimonial narrative and one youth novel that have been published in Kinshasa. The editorial framing and narrative …
Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitanism’s ambivalent mobilities
This paper explores some aspects of the controversy which is now surrounding Afropolitanism, and examines the philosophical and literary output in relation to the concept. Mobility between spaces, in the cosmopolitan tradition, as well as digital mobility and visibility through the use of social media, are considered as key elements of Afropolitanism as a diasporic movement. So Afropolitanism can be described as a form of cosmopolitanism with Afr…
Remembering colonial violence
This article explores the Congolese remembering of the experienced colonial violence through the medium of literature. Although criticism of colonialism is not a favourite topic of Congolese writers, there exists an important corpus of texts, especially when the literary production of Congo Kinshasa and Congo Brazzaville with their politically distinct though sometimes similar experiences is taken into account. Three main strategies of writing ab…
Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitanism's ambivalent mobilities
This paper explores some aspects of the controversy which is now surrounding Afropolitanism, and examines the philosophical and literary output in relation to the concept. Mobility between spaces, in the cosmopolitan tradition, as well as digital mobility and visibility through the use of social media, are considered as key elements of Afropolitanism as a diasporic movement. So Afropolitanism can be described as a form of cosmopolitanism with Afr…
The Child Soldier’s Soliloquy. Voices of a New Archetype in African Writing
The Child Soldier’s Soliloquy. Voices of a New Archetype in African Writing. Un article de la revue Études littéraires africaines (L’enfant-soldat : langages & images) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Black Masculinity, Migration and Psychological Crisis — A Reading of Simon Njami’s
The construction of African male blackness is read against the backdrop of Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, a text that informed the writings of Simon Njami as well as of authors such as Dambudzo Merechara, Dillibe Onyeama, and Daniel Biyaoula. Njami’s African Gigolo exposes the ‘pathological patterns’ of male behaviour and the mythical image of black male sexuality to be structurally rooted in (historically established) reciprocal assumptions ab…
Empires and boundaries
List of Figures. 1. Introduction: Empires, Boundaries and the Production of Difference. Harald Fischer-Tine and Susanne Gerhmann. 2. Education for Work in Colony and Metropole: The Case of Imperial Germany, c. 1880-1914. Sebastian Conrad. 3. Hierarchies of Punishment in Colonial India: European Convicts and the Racial Dividend (c. 1860-1890). Harald Fischer-Tine. 4. Boundaries of Race: Representations of Indisch in Colonial Indonesia Revisited. V…
La traversée du Moi dans l'écriture autobiographique francophone
Cet article élabore le concept de la traversée du Moi en tant qu'outil méthodologique d'interprétation des écritures autobiographiques francophones actuelles. Concept qui s'érige contre l'expression de la quête d'identité, la traversée du moi souligne la pluralité ouverte du sujet esquissé dans les textes autobiographiques de Assia Djebar, Ken Bugul et Patrick Chamoiseau
Written Orature in Senegal
Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitanism's ambivalent mobilities
This paper explores some aspects of the controversy which is now surrounding Afropolitanism, and examines the philosophical and literary output in relation to the concept. Mobility between spaces, in the cosmopolitan tradition, as well as digital mobility and visibility through the use of social media, are considered as key elements of Afropolitanism as a diasporic movement. So Afropolitanism can be described as a form of cosmopolitanism with Afr…
The Child Soldier’s Soliloquy. Voices of a New Archetype in African Writing
The Child Soldier’s Soliloquy. Voices of a New Archetype in African Writing. Un article de la revue Études littéraires africaines (L’enfant-soldat : langages & images) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
La traversée du Moi dans l'écriture autobiographique francophone
Cet article élabore le concept de la traversée du Moi en tant qu'outil méthodologique d'interprétation des écritures autobiographiques francophones actuelles. Concept qui s'érige contre l'expression de la quête d'identité, la traversée du moi souligne la pluralité ouverte du sujet esquissé dans les textes autobiographiques de Assia Djebar, Ken Bugul et Patrick Chamoiseau
Written Orature in Senegal
Written Orature in Senegal
La traversée du Moi dans l'écriture autobiographique francophone
Cet article élabore le concept de la traversée du Moi en tant qu'outil méthodologique d'interprétation des écritures autobiographiques francophones actuelles. Concept qui s'érige contre l'expression de la quête d'identité, la traversée du moi souligne la pluralité ouverte du sujet esquissé dans les textes autobiographiques de Assia Djebar, Ken Bugul et Patrick Chamoiseau
Empires and boundaries
List of Figures. 1. Introduction: Empires, Boundaries and the Production of Difference. Harald Fischer-Tine and Susanne Gerhmann. 2. Education for Work in Colony and Metropole: The Case of Imperial Germany, c. 1880-1914. Sebastian Conrad. 3. Hierarchies of Punishment in Colonial India: European Convicts and the Racial Dividend (c. 1860-1890). Harald Fischer-Tine. 4. Boundaries of Race: Representations of Indisch in Colonial Indonesia Revisited. V…
Black Masculinity, Migration and Psychological Crisis — A Reading of Simon Njami’s
The construction of African male blackness is read against the backdrop of Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, a text that informed the writings of Simon Njami as well as of authors such as Dambudzo Merechara, Dillibe Onyeama, and Daniel Biyaoula. Njami’s African Gigolo exposes the ‘pathological patterns’ of male behaviour and the mythical image of black male sexuality to be structurally rooted in (historically established) reciprocal assumptions ab…
The Child Soldier’s Soliloquy. Voices of a New Archetype in African Writing
The Child Soldier’s Soliloquy. Voices of a New Archetype in African Writing. Un article de la revue Études littéraires africaines (L’enfant-soldat : langages & images) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitanism's ambivalent mobilities
This paper explores some aspects of the controversy which is now surrounding Afropolitanism, and examines the philosophical and literary output in relation to the concept. Mobility between spaces, in the cosmopolitan tradition, as well as digital mobility and visibility through the use of social media, are considered as key elements of Afropolitanism as a diasporic movement. So Afropolitanism can be described as a form of cosmopolitanism with Afr…
Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitanism’s ambivalent mobilities
This paper explores some aspects of the controversy which is now surrounding Afropolitanism, and examines the philosophical and literary output in relation to the concept. Mobility between spaces, in the cosmopolitan tradition, as well as digital mobility and visibility through the use of social media, are considered as key elements of Afropolitanism as a diasporic movement. So Afropolitanism can be described as a form of cosmopolitanism with Afr…
Remembering colonial violence
This article explores the Congolese remembering of the experienced colonial violence through the medium of literature. Although criticism of colonialism is not a favourite topic of Congolese writers, there exists an important corpus of texts, especially when the literary production of Congo Kinshasa and Congo Brazzaville with their politically distinct though sometimes similar experiences is taken into account. Three main strategies of writing ab…
Alem, Kangni
Der erste Roman des zuvor als Theaterautor bekannten Autors spielt in dem fiktiven westafrikanischen Staat TiBrava und in Rückblenden und Vorausschau in Frankreich. Durch den Titel und das vorangestellte Zitat „Now into the Jungle“ aus der Togo Brava Suite von Duke Ellington werden von vornherein Bezüge zum Heimatland des Autors sowie zum Jazz als stilbildendem Element des Romans hergestellt.
Ken Bugul
Der dritte autobiographische Roman der Autorin, Schlusstitel einer Trilogie, erzählt von Ken Buguls Ehe mit einem polygamen Islamgelehrten, die sie nach ihrer Rückkehr aus Europa nach Senegal einging.
Alem, Kangni
Studium der Literaturwissenschaft in Lomé; 1989 Gründung des Atelier Théâtre de Lomé; Dramaturg und Schauspieler; in den 1990er Jahren Exil; 1999 Promotion über den algerischen Autor R. Boudjedra in Bordeaux; nach dem Regimewechsel 2005 Rückkehr nach Togo; Romancier, Theaterautor, Übersetzer und Professor für Literatur an der Universität Lomé, Initiator des größten Literaturfestivals Togos; Politikberater und Mitglied in internationalen Gremien d…
Diop, David
Ken Bugul
Das 1981 in Dakar erschienene Erstlingswerk der Autorin war ein Skandalerfolg, schrieb doch das erste Mal eine Senegalesin freimütig über vielfältige sexuelle Erfahrungen.
Mengestu, Dinaw
Congolese Child Soldier Narratives for Global and Local Audiences
The article examines narratives by and about former child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a hitherto neglected corpus despite the topicality of child soldiering in African literatures after 2000. Critical readings of three testimonial texts that have been published in France are juxtaposed with the analysis of one testimonial narrative and one youth novel that have been published in Kinshasa. The editorial framing and narrative …
The world is a bar
Taking recent debates on ‘How to write Africa’ in general and the allegations of sexism in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s novel Tram 83 in particular as a starting point, I analyze three texts by the Austria-based Congolese author in this article. Considering the scope of each text, namely Tram 83 (2014), the play Zu der Zeit der Königinmutter (The Times of the Queen Mother, 2018), and the latest novel La danse du vilain (The Dance of the Villain, 2020),…
La genèse des traductions allemandes de Senghor au prisme des archives berlinoises
À partir de lectures de documents issus des archives de Janheinz Jahn et d’Erica de Bary conservées à la Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, cet article retrace la genèse des traductions allemandes de l’œuvre poétique de Léopold Sédar Senghor. Alors qu’Erica de Bary n’a pas réussi à publier les poèmes de Senghor qu’elle avait traduits dans le cadre de son projet visant à élaborer une version allemande intégrale de l’Anthologie de 1948, son travail a …
Hommage à Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
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