| Abstrakt: |
Bearing in mind the question posed by Gavatri Chakravorty Spivak, ›Can the subaltern speak?‹, Sabine Skubsch looks for the narratives of subaltern migrants in Germany. She finds them with the help of ›International Women Space‹, a group of Berlin feminists whose aim it is to strengthen the voice of the voiceless. In her article, Skubsch presents one of their books, in which eight women tell of their escapes or migrations, and of their lives in their home countries and Germany. What Skubsch discovers in this book is the ›subversive listening‹ that Spivak demands, a form of listening that comes with a real interest in the other. The narrating women stand out from the seemingly homogeneous mass of migrants, as differentiable human beings with all their flaws. For Skubsch, making these women recognizable as humans is a step away from the dichotomy between the long-established and the refugees, a dichotomy constructed by rightwing populists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
