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BLACK-Red-Gold in “der bunten Republik”: Constructions and Performances of Heimat/en in Post-Wende Afro-/Black German Cultural Productions

Plumly, Vanessa D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439562438

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2015, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Germanic Languages and Literature.
While the Afro-/Black German population in the Federal Republic of Germany continues to seek national recognition, the volume and diversity of their cultural output has begun to receive its own international attention. This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study that assesses the multiplicity of the discursive constructions and performances of the imagined, yet real concept of Heimat in Black German cultural productions. These productions introduce a decolonization of the culturally and politically laden, as well as hegemonically and heteronormatively conceived, exclusionary space of (German) Heimat. In studying these re-imaginings and reconfigurations and the performative acts that constitute them in select Black German political and aesthetic works, I contend that Heimat is not only performed in resistance to a singularly imagined German origin and space of whiteness, but is also revealed to be a more vital construct than other forms of imagined communities. Black Germans, while rooted by their German cultural inheritance, simultaneously traverse the borders of the bounded German nation and interact on a global scale in the realm/s of the transnational Black diaspora. Heimat encompasses elements of both of these imagined communities; yet, it still can be distinguished from them. Persisting through contradictions, the plural Heimat/en of Black Germans become geographically situated, but also internalized (non-)spaces/places that are simultaneously individual and collective (corporeal in both senses of the `body’), voluntary and involuntary, inclusive and exclusive, local, national, and transnational, and dangerous and safe.
Tanja Nusser, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Tina Marie Campt, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Jana Braziel, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Katharina Gerstenberger, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Harold Herzog, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
331 p.
Germanic Literature
Black German; Afro-German; post-Wende; German Heimat; African Diaspora; Nation

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  • Plumly, V. D. (2015). BLACK-Red-Gold in “der bunten Republik”: Constructions and Performances of Heimat/en in Post-Wende Afro-/Black German Cultural Productions [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439562438

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Plumly, Vanessa. BLACK-Red-Gold in “der bunten Republik”: Constructions and Performances of Heimat/en in Post-Wende Afro-/Black German Cultural Productions. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439562438.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Plumly, Vanessa. "BLACK-Red-Gold in “der bunten Republik”: Constructions and Performances of Heimat/en in Post-Wende Afro-/Black German Cultural Productions." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439562438

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