Research Guides: INQ 300 Headline Literature Spring 2018: Germany

Relevant Books about African Immigration into Germany

The African Diaspora by Patrick Manning
Call Number: DT16.5 .M35 2009
ISBN: 9780231144704
Publication Date: 2009-05-19
Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories together, Manning shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shape across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces five central themes: the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community; discourses on race; changes in economic circumstance; the character of family life; and the evolution of popular culture. His approach reveals links among seemingly disparate worlds. In the mid-nineteenth century, for example, slavery came under attack in North America, South America, southern Africa, West Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and India, with former slaves rising to positions of political prominence. Yet at the beginning of the twentieth century, the near-elimination of slavery brought new forms of discrimination that removed almost all blacks from government for half a century. Manning underscores the profound influence that the African diaspora had on world history, demonstrating the inextricable link between black migration and the rise of modernity, especially in regards to the processes of industrialization and urbanization. A remarkably inclusive and far-reaching work, The African Diaspora proves that the advent of modernity cannot be imaginatively or comprehensively engaged without taking the African peoples and the African continent as a whole into account.
African Migrations by Abdoulaye Kane; Todd H. Leedy
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 0253005833
Publication Date: 2013-02-18
Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how Africans re-create community and strive to maintain ethnic, gender, national, and religious ties to their former homes.
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration by Albert Kraler (Editor); Eleonore Kofman (Editor); Martin Kohli (Editor); Camille Schmoll (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9789089642851
Publication Date: 2013-03-15
Family-related migration is moving to the center of political debates on migration, integration, and multiculturalism in Europe. Still, strands of academic research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from--and sometimes ignorant of--each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divide. Collectively, the authors address the need to better understand the diversity of family-related migration and its resulting family forms and practices, to question simplistic assumptions about migrant families in public discourse, to study family migration from a mix of disciplinary perspectives, and to acknowledge the state's role in shaping family-related migration, practices, and lives.
Muslims in Western Europe by Jonas Otterbeck; Jørgen S. Nielsen
Call Number: eBook chapter from JSTOR
ISBN: 9781474409339
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
This introduction to the story of Muslims in Western Europe describes their early history and outlines the causes and courses of modern Muslim immigration. It explains how Muslim communities have developed in individual countries, their origins, present-day ethnic composition, distribution andorganisational patterns, and the political, legal and cultural contexts in which they exist are explored. There is also a comparative consideration of issues common to Muslims in all Western European countries including the role of the family, and the questions of worship, education and religiousthought.
Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration Between West Africa and Europe by Stanislaw Grodz (Volume Editor); Gina Gertrud Smith (Volume Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9004271562
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
In this book the contributors analyse the ways in which the Senegalese, Ghanaian and Fulbe migrants in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland negotiate their religious and ethnic identities.

Reviews and Criticism of "Go, Went, Gone"

Erpenbeck, Jenny: GO, WENT, GONE.(Book review)

Is Part Of: Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2017
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1948-7428
Source: Cengage Learning, Inc.

'Go Went Gone', by Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. (from German) Susan Bernofsky - review

Author: Webb, Kate
Is Part Of: The Spectator
Description: The title of Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone , and the autumnal tone of its beginning -- a classics professor retires, leaving him at home raking leaves, mulling over memories of his wife and wondering about the body in a nearby lake -- suggests that this will be a book of endings, something akin to Anita Brookner's stories of self-absorbed people in the twilight of their lives. The body submerged in the lake and Richard's interest in underground systems (escape routes from the Nazis, tunnels from the Middle Ages) suggest that beneath the 'veneer' of reality, much in life is hidden or suppressed. Richard's dawning awareness brings to mind Ted Hughes's epiphany, the fruit of his engagement with East European dissidents, about the 'spoilt brats of Western civilisation... deprived of the revelations of necessity'.
Publisher: The Spectator (1828) Limited
Creation Date: Jan 20, 2018
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 00386952
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Strangers Among Us.(Jenny Erpenbeck's 'Go, Went, Gone')(Book review)

Author: Wood, James
Subjects: Erpenbeck, Jenny
Is Part Of: The New Yorker, Sept 25, 2017, Vol.93(29), p.92
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0028-792X
Source:

Go, Went, Gone (Book Review)

Author: Robert Lemon
Is Part Of: World Literature Today, 1 October 2017, Vol.91(5), pp.64-66
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 01963570 ; E-ISSN: 19458134 ; DOI: 10.7588/worllitetoda.91.5.0064
Source: Current Journals (JSTOR)

Go, Went, Gone.(Book review)

Author: Pete, Joseph S.
Subjects: Erpenbeck, Jenny ; Bernofsky, Susan
Is Part Of: ForeWord, August 27, 2017
Publisher: ForeWord
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1099-2642
Source: Cengage Learning, Inc.

Lives Other Than His Own
From New York Times December 12, 2017
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck review – humanising migration
From The Guardian September 23, 2017
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck – review
From The Guardian September 10, 2017
Go, Went, Gone: a profound, beautiful and deeply affecting novel of migration
From New Statesman October 17, 2017
‘Go, Went, Gone,’ a Tale of Refugees in Berlin
From Wall Street Journal October 27, 2015
Migration and identity in a new German novel
From The Economist September 30, 2017
Go, Went, Gone
From Foreign Affairs March/April 2018
BOOKS Jenny Erpenbeck finds a novel way to tackle the migrant problem
From The Spectator January 20, 2018
#RivetingReviews: Rosie Goldsmith reviews GO, WENT, GONE by Jenny Erpenbeck
From European LIterature Network September 15, 2017