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

Lifelong Learning Logo 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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ABOUT Brent Peterson

Brent Peterson, Emeritus Professor of German, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI; author of Literature and Community in Die Abendschule: Popular Narratives and Ethnic Identity (1991), History, Fiction, and Germany: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation (2005), Beyond the Myth of 1955: Rethinking Migration and German Culture (manuscript under review), and numerous articles on topics on German history, literature, and culture, 1700 to the present. Co-Director of NEH Summer Seminar for Teachers in Berlin, Germany, 2010, 2012, 2014. Hopkins, BA in History, 1971.

Event Date
Starts:
Monday, January 26, 2026
5:30pm EST

Ends:
Monday, March 2, 2026
7:00pm EST

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

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100% refund: Prior to the start of the course and after the first class.

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