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About the project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, we carried out the [poco.lit.space] project and received funding from the Lotto Foundation Berlin for it. We invited numerous creatives to share their perspectives on postcolonial topics in our online magazine, or at our events and workshops. The project focused on three different themes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) What is postcolonialism?
2) Ideas that travel
3) Being from (indigeneity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this page you can find all of the reviews, essays and interviews that we published as part of the project.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Aquariums \u2013 sitting perfectly at the intersection between a family chronicle and a pandemic tale, interwoven with the disastrous progression of the climate catastrophe - offers both indecisive and openminded readers alike a bridge between historical fiction and science fiction. <\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n [poco.lit.space] – a year in review <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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The year 2024 is coming to an end and [poco.lit.space] with it. We zoomed in on several aspects of postcolonialism in our online magazine, but also at our events and workshops.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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A life-sucking horror haunts dreams of female kinship and the prairies in a suspenseful First Nations novel from Canada. <\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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In my family, caste was mostly a far away concept. As an adult, I am trying to constantly interrogate my positionality within my Indian identity and that includes acknowledging the privileged aspects.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n \n Devika Singh-Kohler <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

When a book can make you look up at the sky once in a while, pause, draw in your breath, and gaze at the rustling leaves of the tree outside your window, what does it mean? That it is not gripping enough, or rather I believe that it wants everything around you to grip you completely.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Ashok Ferry on writing Sri Lanka and his younger selves <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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"This society is fragmented \u2013 it\u2019s a product of colonialism, but it\u2019s also just a fact of paradise island.\u201d<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Wright did not create a story that is simply about the Aboriginal town of Praiseworthy in Northern Australia, she created a wholly Indigenous novel.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Neither Indigenous nor colonial: Identured Labourers at the boundaries of postcolonial categories <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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When over 1 million indentured labourers left the sub-Indian continent to work in the British colonies of the world, they had to redefine their cultural identity\u2026<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Clayton Thomas-M\u00fcller\u2019s Life in the City of Dirty Water, A Memoir of Healing is a must read, especially for people interested in climate justice, but it can also help non-Indigenous people to understand the struggles of Indigenous communities, particularly the ones in urban areas in North America.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Cozy reading and writing workshop: giving gifts <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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Warm invitation to our cozy online workshop to welcome winter. We\u2019ll read and write with Giuliana Kierz.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n \u201cIt’s the language of the colonizer\u201d \u2013 An interview with jarral Boyd about indigeneity and language <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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jarral Boyd grew up on Turtle Island and is the child of Indigenous and Black parents. Since they have lived in Berlin, jarral has worked in schools, created community structures for diversity and inclusion, given workshops as an allyship trainer at conferences...<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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As part of the Barrio Berlin festival, Hopscotch Reading Room, and poco.lit. co-program an evening at the cemetery caf\u00e9 Lisbeth. Several dozen people squeeze into the building for a reading by Avrina Prabala-Joslin, a Tamil poet, and Maya Saravia, a Guatemalan artist. <\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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The recent novel by US-American writer Louise Erdrich centres on an Ojibwe woman called Tookie, grappling with her own past in the midst of the pandemic, protests and upheaval in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n An Ordinary Day at the Museum <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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Before I let you in on the strange journey that we were about to commence, I must share my history with you. I was borne by a boulder up in S\u00e1pmi, a land the S\u00e1mi has lived on sine the ice started revealing the land.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Tayi Tibble\u2019s Po\u016bkahangatus is a vivid, often playful examination of her own family history, becoming an adult and the tensions that exist in her lived experience as a young M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n \u201cPeople are read differently depending on where they are”: A conversation with Rapha\u00eblle Red on the principle of the road novel <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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Rapha\u00eblle Red is an author currently living in Berlin who writes in French, German and English. She is also doing her PhD on literature in the African diaspora. We had the pleasure of speaking with her about her French-language debut novel Adikou, its protagonist\u2019s journey and its context from one language to the next. The German translation of the novel by Patricia Klobusiczky\u00a0 was published in September 2024 by Rowohlt Verlag.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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I rarely voluntarily choose to read stories about time travel, even though when done well they not only create narrative potential, but also orchestrate and scrutinize connections between the past and present. And this is exactly what Sanyal accomplishes with Antichristie.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Takeaway Party Anyone? Chef\u2019s Kitchen Chinese takeaway in El Cerrito, California was a beloved after school institution when I was in high school. There was only a small counter, no indoor seating, and an open kitchen. Every so often a burst of fire would shoot up from one of the furiously moving woks. There aren\u2019t […]<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Physical bodies travel across oceans, mountains, and borders. Ideas too can travel from place to place, context to context. Here are 5 books that we think represent how an idea can travel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Join us for an evening with the 2 storytellers and artists, avrina prabala-joslin and Maya Saravia, who will share their approaches to open questions of belonging.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Ideas can travel in different contexts, but they also reach their limits. 5 essays about traveling ideas and their barriers.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Widening the Gothic World in\u00a0Kohraa\u00a0(1964)\u00a0 <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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What\u2019s great about cinema though - lest you thought I wasn\u2019t going to mention books versus movies - is that it has helped to diversify this aesthetic of storytelling. So I was especially thrilled when I first came across Biren Nag\u2019s\u00a0Kohraa, (\u2018The Fog\u2019) a film from 1964 which is an adaptation of\u00a0Rebecca\u00a0the novel by Daphne du Maurier and film by Alfred Hitchcock.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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In her second essay, Sophie Yukiko continues her critical examination of the German Ballroom culture. She observes that it holds huge potential because from its earliest days, it has always been a space for discussion, criticism, adjustment and conversation.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Community Event 2024 with Giuliana Kiersz, Ben Osborn and the \u201cMacht Sprache\u201d Book <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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Warm invitation to our second community event! We would like to meet you all in person and have a chat over a drink. First we will introduce ourselves, poco.lit. and our newly published book \u201cMacht Sprache: Ein Manifest f\u00fcr mehr Gerechtigkeit\u201d. And then, we will be able to enjoy a performance by poet Giuliana Kiersz and musician Ben Osborn.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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German-American writer, performance artist and cultural curator Sophie Yukiko looks back on a decade of creating and experiencing Ballroom Culture in Germany. With a critical look on the reproduction of powerdynamics, she tries to find out what happened between 1980\u2019s Harlem and today while diving into the conflicts and potentials of the German scene.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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A Passage North takes its readers along on a contemplative journey through a Sri Lanka traumatised by a decades long civil war.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Call for Submissions – Being from <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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This is our third call for submissions and we are looking for pieces about being from. Please send us your pitch!<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Jessica J. Lee's third book, Dispersals, On Plants, Borders and Belonging, consists of fourteen personal essays about plants crossing borders and putting down roots in new places. Lee chooses several trees, shrubs and algae, which hold meaning in her own life, to engage with their history and journeys into different parts of the world. In doing so, she questions under what circumstances species are considered either cosmopolitan or invasive.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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After the revolution, a woman and a man become acquainted in a caf\u00e9 in Cairo. A romance develops between the two of them, but it then takes a violent turn.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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To travel is a privilege not afforded to all. While that might seem a bit hyperbolic in times like these, it is in fact a reality for most of the world.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Meera Syal's Life isn\u2019t All Haha Heehee follows the lives of three best friends who grew up together in the Punjabi community of East London. <\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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We moved to Mumbai when I was 5 years old, already speaking Hindi, English, and crumbs of Nepalese, dregs of infancy passed in Kathmandu.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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The novel, by writer and literary historian Ahmet Hamdi Tanp\u0131nar (1901-1962) is considered one of the most meaningful works of modern Turkish literature and offers a satirical glimpse into the processes of modernization during the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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In the Old Testament, the story of The Tower of Babel is told: in reaction to the hubris of humankind, God spreads people across the world and muddles up their languages. The barriers to understanding thus become the penalty for humankind\u2019s hubris. R. F. Kuang\u2019s Babel takes place in a similar time of human arrogance: in 1836, Oxford \u2013 with its fictive Royal Institute for Translation, informally known as Babel \u2013 is at the centre of the British Empire.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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In Meera Syal\u2019s semi-autobiographical novel, Meena Kumar is the only Indian girl in the former British mining village of Tollington. While her parents wait in vain for their daughter\u2019s sudden and definitive metamorphosis into the model Indian girl, all Meena wants is to be a Tollington wench.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n From Text Choice to the Individual Word \u2013 the Political Decisions of a Translator <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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Within the framework of the Resonance program organized by the Goethe-Institutes in France, Justine Coquel and Anna von Rath chatted with Lucie Lamy, who, together with Jean-Philippe Rossignol, translated May Ayim's works into French. <\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Issa, who lives in Frankfurt am Main, is pregnant and desperate. The situation with her child's father is complicated as is with her mother. No longer knowing what to do, and at the urging of her mother, she flies to see her grandmother and great-grandmother in Cameroon.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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If your interests lie with the postcolonial, Shakespeare might seem like an unlikely port of call. Or rather, he might seem representative of a lot of the things a postcolonial approach would be interested in working against. He could, for instance, represent what needs to be removed in calls to \u2018decolonize the university\u2019: a dead […]<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n 7 introductory essays on postcolonialism <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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One of our aims with poco.lit. is to try to demystify some of the core ideas in and around postcolonial studies. Here we\u2019ve compiled 7 introductory essays that discuss different aspects of postcolonialism.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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Around 12,000 kilometers apart are two places that could hardly be more different and yet share the same name: L\u00fcderitz in the north of Saxony-Anhalt and L\u00fcderitz in the southwest of Namibia. The two towns of L\u00fcderitz act as a visual setting for negotiations of the past. <\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Where to begin?\u00a05 postcolonial classics <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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If you are interested in postcolonial literature but don't really know where to begin, we put together a list of 5 postcolonial classics for you.\u00a0<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Culture Wrappings: An Excerpt from\u00a0“The Mourners” <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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Like any respectable Indian family, the Shantis didn\u2019t use the house kitchen, they cooked in their garage.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Kurdistan in VHS – The postcolonial questions of Kurdish films <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Destina Yildirim <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

The postcolonial occupation with art enables a negotiation that positions itself permanently against the colonial gaze, and in doing so can actually be and become a form of resistance.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Call for Submissions – Ideas That Travel <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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For our online magazine, we are looking for contributions on the topic of "Ideas that Travel".<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Cahier d\u2019un retour au pays natal <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Fabienne Imlinger <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

Cahier d\u2019un retour au pays natal by Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire blows up literary and political categories: it is a long poem, but at times it reads like a manifesto; it describes the journey and the search for identity of a young man from Martinique, has autobiographical features, and yet is also a journey into the past that recalls, among other things, the transatlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Europe\u2019s Nightmare: The Practice of Decoloniality <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Naz Al-Windi <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

Current power relations are the direct result of the colonial division of the world and, in particular, the organization and state of labor since the colonization of the Americas. It is why today we can no longer speak of colonialism, but of coloniality. And identifying coloniality creates an intervention.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Culture Wrappings IV: Closeted Puja\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Priya Singh <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

The home mandir is integral to daily living. It\u2019s your \u2018last stop\u2019 before you start your day and before you go to bed. If something good happens, you go here to show your gratitude. When something challenging or terrible happens, you come here for comfort and strength.\u00a0<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n How Colonialism Continues to Shape Thinking in Germany Today <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Carolina Eidt <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

Many people who grow up in Germany believe that colonialism belongs to the distant past and has no influence on them. However, this is not true. Postcolonialism is reflected in the Eurocentric worldview, the media, language and in consumer behaviour.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Season of the Shadow <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Fabienne Imlinger <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

Season of the Shadow\u00a0reads like a crime novel, and its dark historic background unfolds only little by little: the history of the transatlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Go Tell It on the Mountain <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Michaela Maria Mueller <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

\u201eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u00a0is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else. I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal, above all, with my father.\u00a0\u201c, James Baldwin said of his autobiographical debut novel, published in 1953.\u00a0<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n White Spots <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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Lena Albrecht\u2019s novel Wei\u00dfe Flecken (\u2018White Spots\u2019 in English) is an excellent example of a critical examination of one\u2019s own whiteness. The novel shows how a young white woman gets the impetus to question the typical narration of German history, takes her newly acquired perspective personally and deals with the entanglements of her own family.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Postcolonialism and a Critique of Humanism <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Lukas Kiemele <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

In discussing humanism, one is talking about the dignity of human beings and the moral imperative for humane actions. As much as we can justly perceive these hard-earned principles as standards to be maintained, we, as advocates committed to these universally conceived principles, must equally admit their historically ambivalent and abusive role.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Neighbours and Other Stories <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Julia Rosche <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

There is perhaps no other art form that makes time travel so vividly possible as literature. In Diane Oliver\u2019s collection of short stories Neighbours and other stories, we are in the USA of the 1960s, a decade known for protest and political upheaval. The so-called racial segregation. which determines everyday life in the USA, especially in the southern […]<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Culture Wrappings III:\u00a0\u00a0Please Keep Your Beautiful Feet Away from my Beautiful Books\u00a0 <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Priya Singh <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

Granted, the cartoon sidewalks are usually spotless apart from the occasional pile of leaves and errant chewing gum, but that doesn\u2019t mean it would have been any better if they\u2019d taken their shoes off. Feet on books? No. Just, NO.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Schwarz. Deutsch. Weiblich. <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Susi Peter <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

In her current book\u00a0Schwarz. Deutsch. Weiblich \u2013 Warum Feminismus mehr als Geschlechtergerechtigkeit fordern muss(Black. German. Female \u2013 Why feminism must demand more than gender equality in English), Natasha A. Kelly traces the history of Black women in Germany, which she skilfully weaves together with her own life story.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n The God of Small Things <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Ayse Yildiz <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

Arundhati Roy\u2019s\u00a0The God of Small Things\u00a0(1997)\u00a0\u00a0is\u00a0one of the most widely known\u00a0postcolonial\u00a0novels. It won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages.<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Culture Wrappings: Sanskar aur Parampara (Culture and Tradition) <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
\n \n \n Priya Singh <\/a>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/header>\n \n

I would argue that we were raised to see the best parts of our culture and that some of it was made visible via Bollywood. However, this was a world we visited rather than took at face value as the life we should be expected to lead. It is that which has allowed me to hold these films dear whilst still being critical. <\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n Vertraulichkeiten (Confidentialities) <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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In Max Lobe\u2018s novel Vertraulichkeiten (Confidentialities, not yet translated into English), a nameless first-person narrator who lives in Switzerland travels to Cameroon, where he grew up, and in a village somewhere on the road between Duala and Jaunde, an old woman tells him about the Cameroonian struggle for independence. <\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n

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\n \n poco.lit.’s new project for 2024: [poco.lit. space] <\/a>\n <\/h1>\n\n
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Thanks to the kind support of the Lotto Foundation Berlin, we will start a new project next year: [poco.lit. space].<\/p>\n more...<\/a>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n \n\n\n\n

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