Kokou Alangue (Post-)Migration, Flucht und Gewalt – Literarische und ästhetische Repräsentationen

About this book

Migration, flight and violence are among the current and burning issues that resonate in public and political discourses and in the media worldwide. The present work represents a competent and important contribution to the question of how the current political and social key question of flight and migration can be presented in a literary manner from a postcolonial and postmigrant perspective using texts from contemporary literature that were lying in the fog before 2010 and earlier have worked through issues of migration policy, refugee issues and violence.

The work refers in a meaningful way to the Hanoverian Germanist Leo Kreutzer's paradigm of the "double view", with which in this case a Francophone African (Togolese) and a German text are brought into a dialogue. The subject of this study is the indirect, unrecognizable, subtle and yet destructive forms of violence built into structures, systems and laws such as structural, cultural and symbolic ones, in which no immediate actor can be identified.

The dissertation deals with the two spectacular texts, how they generally deal with the discrepancy between the globalization-oriented cross-border mobility, the (natural) right to freedom of movement and its criminalization and the scandal of flight and migration between the Global South and Europe in the deal with particular issues, thereby leaving conventional levels of representation and using avant-garde and post-modern means of design, impressionistic and surrealistic styles, mythological and symbolic language patterns and thus enriching the political discourse in an impressive way in terms of literary aesthetics.

The narrative-theoretical, inter-/transtextual and reception-aesthetic analysis of the fate of figures who have fled and migrated from the Global South shows how they are exposed to biopolitical migration politics, torn between deterministic and existentialist actions and suffer precarisation, outlawry and disenfranchisement in the process.