SELMA REZGUI is an editor, translator, and project organizer, and has an MSt in German Studies from the University of Oxford LAURA MARIE STURTZ is a PhD candidate in the research group "Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures" at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg TARA TALWAR WINDSOR is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. PRISCILLA LAYNE is Professor of German, with an adjunct appointment in African, African American and Diaspora Studies, at the University of North Carolina.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar Windsor PART I. SUBJECTIVITIES, SOLIDARITIES, GENEALOGIES1. Acting from Within: Inclusive Literature and the Power of Writing. A Conversation with Sasha Marianna Salzmann - Selma Rezgui and Laura Marie Sturtz2. Twin Novels: Re-Negotiating Self and Other in Sasha Marianna Salzmann's Außer Sich and Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst - Laura Marie Sturtz3. New Black German Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century - Priscilla Layne4. Talking Back, Paying Forward: Dialogism and Literary Genealogies in May Ayim and Olivia Wenzel - Selma Rezgui5. Black Poetry Matters: A Conversation with Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo - Jeannette Oholi and Nadiye Ünsal PART II. DISRUPTIONS, SUBVERSIONS, INTERACTIONS6. Subversive Aesthetics, Embodied Language, and the Politics of Literature: A Conversation with Özlem Özgül Dündar - Joseph Twist7. De-integrative Rewriting of the Bildungsroman: Social Criticism from a Postmigrant Perspective in Fatma Aydemir's Ellbogen (2017) - Lea Laura Heim8. Reorienting Knowledge of Structural Systems of Violence in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Adas Raum and Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau - Alrik Daldrup9. Epistolary Interventions, Epistemic Insurrections: Creative Writers, Open Letters and Solidarity with the "Womxn, Life, Freedom" Movement in Contemporary Postmigrant Germany - Tara Talwar Windsor10. Seen as Friendly, Seen as Frightening? A Conversation on Visibilities, Kinship, and the Right Words with Mithu Sanyal - Leila EssaAfterword: Rewriting Identities: Conversations about What Might Be - Sarah ColvinNotes on the ContributorsIndex

The contributions . . . are all worthwhile reading and are fastidious in argumentation and editing. . . . The interviews with authors Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo, Özlem Özgül Dündar, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, and Mithu Sanyal are particularly enlightening, as they give first-person insights into the challenges and rewards of participating in the German literary industry as writers from minoritized groups. . . . The scholarly chapters delve deeply into works by some of the most consequential writers today. . . . [A] beautifully conceived and executed volume.

SELMA REZGUI is an editor, translator, and project organizer, and has an MSt in German Studies from the University of Oxford LAURA MARIE STURTZ is a PhD candidate in the research group "Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures" at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg TARA TALWAR WINDSOR is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. PRISCILLA LAYNE is Professor of German, with an adjunct appointment in African, African American and Diaspora Studies, at the University of North Carolina.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar Windsor PART I. SUBJECTIVITIES, SOLIDARITIES, GENEALOGIES1. Acting from Within: Inclusive Literature and the Power of Writing. A Conversation with Sasha Marianna Salzmann - Selma Rezgui and Laura Marie Sturtz2. Twin Novels: Re-Negotiating Self and Other in Sasha Marianna Salzmann's Außer Sich and Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst - Laura Marie Sturtz3. New Black German Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century - Priscilla Layne4. Talking Back, Paying Forward: Dialogism and Literary Genealogies in May Ayim and Olivia Wenzel - Selma Rezgui5. Black Poetry Matters: A Conversation with Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo - Jeannette Oholi and Nadiye Ünsal PART II. DISRUPTIONS, SUBVERSIONS, INTERACTIONS6. Subversive Aesthetics, Embodied Language, and the Politics of Literature: A Conversation with Özlem Özgül Dündar - Joseph Twist7. De-integrative Rewriting of the Bildungsroman: Social Criticism from a Postmigrant Perspective in Fatma Aydemir's Ellbogen (2017) - Lea Laura Heim8. Reorienting Knowledge of Structural Systems of Violence in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Adas Raum and Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau - Alrik Daldrup9. Epistolary Interventions, Epistemic Insurrections: Creative Writers, Open Letters and Solidarity with the "Womxn, Life, Freedom" Movement in Contemporary Postmigrant Germany - Tara Talwar Windsor10. Seen as Friendly, Seen as Frightening? A Conversation on Visibilities, Kinship, and the Right Words with Mithu Sanyal - Leila EssaAfterword: Rewriting Identities: Conversations about What Might Be - Sarah ColvinNotes on the ContributorsIndex

The contributions . . . are all worthwhile reading and are fastidious in argumentation and editing. . . . The interviews with authors Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo, Özlem Özgül Dündar, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, and Mithu Sanyal are particularly enlightening, as they give first-person insights into the challenges and rewards of participating in the German literary industry as writers from minoritized groups. . . . The scholarly chapters delve deeply into works by some of the most consequential writers today. . . . [A] beautifully conceived and executed volume.

SELMA REZGUI is an editor, translator, and project organizer, and has an MSt in German Studies from the University of Oxford LAURA MARIE STURTZ is a PhD candidate in the research group "Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures" at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg TARA TALWAR WINDSOR is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. PRISCILLA LAYNE is Professor of German, with an adjunct appointment in African, African American and Diaspora Studies, at the University of North Carolina.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar Windsor PART I. SUBJECTIVITIES, SOLIDARITIES, GENEALOGIES1. Acting from Within: Inclusive Literature and the Power of Writing. A Conversation with Sasha Marianna Salzmann - Selma Rezgui and Laura Marie Sturtz2. Twin Novels: Re-Negotiating Self and Other in Sasha Marianna Salzmann's Außer Sich and Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst - Laura Marie Sturtz3. New Black German Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century - Priscilla Layne4. Talking Back, Paying Forward: Dialogism and Literary Genealogies in May Ayim and Olivia Wenzel - Selma Rezgui5. Black Poetry Matters: A Conversation with Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo - Jeannette Oholi and Nadiye Ünsal PART II. DISRUPTIONS, SUBVERSIONS, INTERACTIONS6. Subversive Aesthetics, Embodied Language, and the Politics of Literature: A Conversation with Özlem Özgül Dündar - Joseph Twist7. De-integrative Rewriting of the Bildungsroman: Social Criticism from a Postmigrant Perspective in Fatma Aydemir's Ellbogen (2017) - Lea Laura Heim8. Reorienting Knowledge of Structural Systems of Violence in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Adas Raum and Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau - Alrik Daldrup9. Epistolary Interventions, Epistemic Insurrections: Creative Writers, Open Letters and Solidarity with the "Womxn, Life, Freedom" Movement in Contemporary Postmigrant Germany - Tara Talwar Windsor10. Seen as Friendly, Seen as Frightening? A Conversation on Visibilities, Kinship, and the Right Words with Mithu Sanyal - Leila EssaAfterword: Rewriting Identities: Conversations about What Might Be - Sarah ColvinNotes on the ContributorsIndex

The contributions . . . are all worthwhile reading and are fastidious in argumentation and editing. . . . The interviews with authors Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo, Özlem Özgül Dündar, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, and Mithu Sanyal are particularly enlightening, as they give first-person insights into the challenges and rewards of participating in the German literary industry as writers from minoritized groups. . . . The scholarly chapters delve deeply into works by some of the most consequential writers today. . . . [A] beautifully conceived and executed volume.