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This essay focuses on the contemporary German literary public spheres, zooming in on the relation between a republic and its reading public. In the fraught political topography of contemporary Germany, marked by the arrival and eventual acceptance of over one million Syrian refugees since 2015, the rise of the extreme right-wing party Alternatives for Germany, resurgence of discussion on German colonialism in Africa, and extended public debate around the controversial Humboldt Forum in Berlin, the essay centralizes questions of race, colonialism, and migration. Connecting these key terms with current debates on decolonizing and diversifying the literary canon, the essay argues that decolonization is a direction, not a destination; it is a method, not a product, and attempts to decolonize a national literary canon must be conducted in connection with the larger public spheres, indeed by decompartmentalizing the classroom and the society.
本文以当代德国文学公共领域为研究对象，聚焦于一个共和国与其阅读大众之间的关系。自2015年以来，超过100万叙利亚难民抵达并最终接受了当代德国，极端右翼政党德国替代方案(alternative for Germany)的崛起，关于德国在非洲殖民主义的讨论重新抬头，以及围绕柏林有争议的洪堡论坛(Humboldt Forum)展开的公开辩论，这些都是当代德国令人担忧的政治格局，本文集中讨论了种族、殖民主义和移民问题。本文将这些关键术语与当前关于非殖民化和文学经典多样化的辩论联系起来，认为非殖民化是一个方向，而不是一个目的地;它是一种方法，而不是一种产品，要使一种民族文学经典非殖民化，必须与更大的公共领域联系起来进行，实际上是通过使课堂和社会去分化。
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Widely considered the top journal in its field, New German Critique is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German studies and publishes on a wide array of subjects, including literature, film, and media; literary theory and cultural studies; Holocaust studies; art and architecture; political and social theory; and philosophy. Established in the early 1970s, the journal has played a significant role in introducing U.S. readers to Frankfurt School thinkers and remains an important forum for debate in the humanities.
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