Overview
- Examines the discipline’s ability to help equip its learners with critical tools to dismantle oppressive forces of our present time
- Helps facilitate criticality in the spirit of diversity and decolonialization discourses
- Combines German Studies with critical pedagogy aligned with critical race, gender, sexuality, migration, and disability studies
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
— Jennifer Redmann, Professor of German, Franklin & Marshall College, USA
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Regine Criser is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of North Carolina Asheville, USA, where she also serves as the coordinator of the First Year Seminars and the Director of the UNCA Prison Education Program. She is a co-founder of the Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum (DDGC) scholarly collective. Her research focuses on cultural representations of the GDR in contemporary Germany, inclusive pedagogy, and conceptualizations of belonging.
Ervin Malakaj is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is a co-founder of the Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum (DDGC) scholarly collective. He specializes in late-18th- to 21st-century German media and cultural history. His research focuses on 19th-century literary cultures, film history, narrative theory, queer theory, and critical pedagogy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies
Editors: Regine Criser, Ervin Malakaj
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34342-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34341-5Published: 14 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34344-6Published: 14 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34342-2Published: 13 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 366
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Theory, European Culture, Language Education, German, Cultural Studies