Seeing the World Anew: German Women Writers in Global Perspective with Brent Peterson, PhD, A&S '71

Course Title: Seeing the World Anew: German Women Writers in Global Perspective

Instructor: Brent Peterson, PhD, A&S '71

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January 26, 2026 - March 2, 2026 (6 Sessions) 

Monday,  5:30PM ET - 7:00PM ET 

Virtual via Zoom

Course Description: As literary critic Peter Brooks put it, characters in literature “serve as optics on the world: They offer what Proust (1871-1922) called the only true adventure—to see the world through another’s eyes.” This course looks at how German women authors with migration backgrounds view Germany. 

Renan Demirkan's Black Tea with Three Sugar Cubes (1991) looks at the experience of a woman who arrived in Germany in 1962 as a seven-year old from Turkey. It ends with the birth of her multi-ethnic child in an increasingly diverse Germany. Fatma Aydemir's Djinns (2023, the word means goblin) is less optimistic: Turning expectations and stereotypes of the immigrant experience on their side, Aydemir shows how we all grapple with power and beauty, the holes in our lives, and the demons that hover just out of sight.

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