De-Integrate!: A Minority Survival Guide for the 21st Century - Hardcover

Czollek, Max

 
9781632063182: De-Integrate!: A Minority Survival Guide for the 21st Century
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1632063182 ISBN 13: 9781632063182
Verlag: Restless Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past―and a handbook for minorities on how to embrace their difference and resist rising nationalism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and racism.

Max Czollek’s De-Integrate! is a polemical, often humorous examination of Jewish life in contemporary Germany that speaks to the position of minorities the world over. Rooted in sociological theory, the book offers an engaging and approachable critique of Germany’s much-lauded traditions of memory culture and Vergangenheitsbewältigung―its “successful” negotiation of its Nazi past.

Although modern Reunified Germany presents itself as having overcome historical trauma and integrated its now diverse, multicultural society, Czollek argues that this public image is merely a “Theater of Integration”: showcasing those minoritized stories to bolster Germany’s positive self-image, while sidelining the true potential of the country’s radical diversity. Czollek posits that today’s German minorities must embrace their differences and “de-integrate” from mainstream society in order to counter the rise of rightwing nationalism.

On the one hand a stirring look at integration, belonging, and cultural diversity, and on the other a passionate denunciation of bigotry and virulent nationalism, De-Integrate! speaks across cultural, racial, and national divisions and points to a livelier future for all of us.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Max Czollek is a poet, publicist, and political scientist. He received his doctorate from the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technische Universität Berlin and is particularly well known for his theatrical and essayistic work surrounding memory culture, integration, and Jewish identity in post-war Germany.

Jon Cho-Polizzi is an educator, activist, and freelance literary translator. Beginning in Fall 2022, he will be a Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor of German at the University of Michigan. Jon received his PhD from UC Berkeley in German and Medieval Studies after studying Translation, History, and Literature in Heidelberg and Santa Cruz. He lives and works between Ann Arbor, Northern California, and Berlin.

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Verlag
Restless Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1632063182
ISBN 13 
9781632063182
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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