Taberner, S orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-9363 (2019) Towards a ‘Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism’: Rethinking Solidarity with Refugees in Olga Grjasnowa’s Gott ist nicht schüchtern. Modern Language Review, 114 (4). pp. 819-840. ISSN 0026-7937
Abstract
This article examines Olga Grjasnowa's depiction of the 2015 'refugee crisis' in Gott ist nicht schüchtern (2017), focusing on how this German-language writer of Russian Jewish extraction offers a nuanced understanding of refugees’ motives for flight. Further to this, the article explores the novel's implied critique of cosmopolitan memory and multidirectional memory (Levy/Sznaider; Rothberg) as an underpinning of contemporary humanitarian activism and empathy with refugees. Gott ist nicht schüchtern instead promotes a ‘pragmatic cosmopolitanism’ that in harking back to states’ obligations under the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention recalls Hannah Arendt and present-day political philosophers such as Seyla Benhabib.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Modern Humanities Research Association 2019. This is an author produced version of an article published in Modern Language Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > German (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2019 10:44 |
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Modern Humanities Research Association |
Identification Number: | 10.5699/modelangrevi.114.4.0819 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:143091 |