Writing from the margins - and beyond

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2006

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Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa

Abstract

In 1987 Jos� F. A. Oliver published his first poetry volume Auf-Bruch in Germany. His standing as a German-speaking poet from Spanish-Andalusian stock was linked to the Gastarbeiterliteratur, or migrant worker literature in Germany, a literature that writes from the margins of both the literary and economic world of the Federal Republic of Germany. Developments within Oliver's oeuvre over the past twenty years, how ever, indicate a movement away from the literary periphery into main-stream German literature. This article explores these dynamics, using Jos� F. A. Oliver's writings to illustrate this conjecture.

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Migrant writings in Germany, German poetry

Citation

van Ryneveld, H.E. (2006). Writing from the margins - and beyond. Journal for the Study of Religion, 19 (2): 115-124.