Do Not Disturb My Circles
Face-to-Face Encounters with Refugees in Jenny Erpenbeck'sGo, Went, Goneand Bodo Kirchhoff'sWiderfahrnis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3971747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David N Coury (University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, corresponding author), David Coury (University of Wisconsin–Green Bay) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-67 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2020.1832342 |
| OpenAlex | W3092500807 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The 2015 immigration wave brought profound changes to European society in the form of a welcoming culture (Willkommenskultur) on the one hand, and in the rise of xenophobia and of right-wing populism on the other. Over the past few years, much attention has rightly been paid to literary and essayistic works by immigrant writers dealing with the challenges they have encountered in “Fortress Europe.” At the same time, there has been a reckoning within the privileged classes in Europe once their complacent reality had been disturbed by confrontations with war and poverty and the immigration these have caused. This article explores two recent highly-acclaimed novels on the subject of immigration and its effects on German society—Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone and Bodo Kirchhoff’s Widerfahrnis—and by drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, analyzes how encounters with refugees both disturb their protagonists’ lives and lead to their personal transformation
German · Immigration · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Populism · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Xenophobia · Gender Studies · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · German legal, social, and political studies · History · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |