Kyung‐ho Cha
Biographic Data
| ID | 4425491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyung‐ho Cha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyung‐ho |
| FAMILY NAME | Cha |
| SIGNATURE | CHA K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz‐Zentrum für Literatur‐ und Kulturforschung Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6162-412X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ghanaian Folk Thought, Akan Religion and an Ethic of Care in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Adas Raum
In this article I will analyse how cosmological myths, proverbs and pictorial symbols from Ghanaian folk thought and religion are adapted in Sharon Dodua Otoo's novel Adas Raum . I will focus primarily on the idea of the transmigration of the soul, which comes from the religion of the Akan people, and on the Sankofa symbol, which stands for a certain attitude towards history. In the novel, Ghanaian wisdom poetry, which traditionally deals with th…
Die ‘Gottesrechte Des Menschen
Heinrich Heine shows in his essays on France and Germany that human rights have a religious prehistory. For him, ‘Menschheitsrechte’ are not merely secular rights but secularised rights. The human rights proclaimed in the American and French Revolutions are the secularised historical form in which the fundamental ‘Urrechte der Menschheit’ manifest themselves. This article takes as its starting point the observation that, for Heine, religions have…
The bad migrant. The crisis of democratic education and the decolonization of the curriculum in French and German school dramas
The high school drama is a popular genre in France and Germany that often portrays the integration of young migrants into society. This essay compares the French film La journée de la jupe (Skirt Day, 2009) and its German adaptation for the stage, Verrücktes Blut (Crazy Blood, 2010), in which the civic education intended to turn young migrants into model citizens and form their democratic subjectivity fails. The analysis of La journée de la jupe …
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Ghanaian Folk Thought, Akan Religion and an Ethic of Care in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Adas Raum
In this article I will analyse how cosmological myths, proverbs and pictorial symbols from Ghanaian folk thought and religion are adapted in Sharon Dodua Otoo's novel Adas Raum . I will focus primarily on the idea of the transmigration of the soul, which comes from the religion of the Akan people, and on the Sankofa symbol, which stands for a certain attitude towards history. In the novel, Ghanaian wisdom poetry, which traditionally deals with th…
Die ‘Gottesrechte Des Menschen
Heinrich Heine shows in his essays on France and Germany that human rights have a religious prehistory. For him, ‘Menschheitsrechte’ are not merely secular rights but secularised rights. The human rights proclaimed in the American and French Revolutions are the secularised historical form in which the fundamental ‘Urrechte der Menschheit’ manifest themselves. This article takes as its starting point the observation that, for Heine, religions have…
The bad migrant. The crisis of democratic education and the decolonization of the curriculum in French and German school dramas
The high school drama is a popular genre in France and Germany that often portrays the integration of young migrants into society. This essay compares the French film La journée de la jupe (Skirt Day, 2009) and its German adaptation for the stage, Verrücktes Blut (Crazy Blood, 2010), in which the civic education intended to turn young migrants into model citizens and form their democratic subjectivity fails. The analysis of La journée de la jupe …
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