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From: "Hall K." <[log in to unmask]>
Call for Papers
Colloquium on the work of Esther Dischereit
Centre for Contemporary German Literature
University of Wales Swansea
5-6 September 2003
The prolific writer, poet, dramatist and essayist Esther Dischereit has
played a prominent literary and cultural role in Germany since the
1980s. Her groundbreaking novel Joëmis Tisch (1988) addresses questions
of Jewish/German identity from the diverse perspectives of women living
in post-war Germany in the shadow of the Holocaust. Her most recent
collection of writings, Eichmann an der Börse, was published in 2002.
This colloquium aims to explore all aspects of Dischereit's work,
placing it in the context of key political, historical and cultural
events, as well as the work of other contemporary Jewish German
writers. Selected papers will appear in the proceedings of the
colloquium in the 'Contemporary German Writers' series, published by
the University of Wales Press.
Esther Dischereit will be present at the colloquium, which will also
feature Dr Karen Remmler as a keynote speaker.
200-word proposals for papers, in English or German, are invited on all
areas of Dischereit's work. Suggested topics include:
- representations of female identity and experience
- representations of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation Jewish/German identity
- conceptualisations of history and memory; remembering and forgetting;
guilt, loss and alienation
- links to other Jewish German writers such as Barbara Honigmann, Irene
Dische, Katja Behrens, Maxim Biller and Rafael Seligmann
- perceptions of the role of the (Jewish) writer
- the relation of Dischereit's prose writing to her poetry, and of her
fiction to her non-fiction
Papers will be 30 minutes long, to be followed by discussion. Please
send proposals, by Feb 1 2003, to Dr. Katharina Hall, Department of
German, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP,
or to <[log in to unmask]>.
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