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Rafik Schami: Die geheime Mission des Kardinals
No full textThis article examines the last famous book written by Rafik Schami Die geheime Mission des Kardinals, 2019. This paper analyzes how the German-Syrian author tells of faith and love, superstition and murder and how Rafik Schami leads us deep into the conflicts of Syrian society
Del origen del vampiro a un vampiro entre emigrantes en Die Wahrheit über Vampire und knoblauch de Rafik Schami
No full textResumen:
El objetivo de este ensayo es analizar la figura del vampiro que Rafik Schami utiliza en su relato Die Wahrheit über Vampire und Knoblauch (La verdad sobre los vampiros y el ajo). Después de presentar los primeros documentos sobre vampiros escritos en lengua alemana, se intenta contextualizar al autor y su obra –y su representación en diversas formas discursivas- a la par de dar respuesta a los siguientes interrogantes: ¿Por qué elige Rafik Schami precisamente esta figura para su narración? ¿De qué fuentes y estrategias narrativas se sirve? ¿Cómo lo caracteriza y qué función tiene?
Palabras clave: Vampiro, Rafik Schami, Alemania, emigración.
Abstract:
The aim of this essay is to analyze the vampire in Rafik Schami’s Die Wahrheit über Vampire und Knoblauch. After presenting the first documents about vampires written in German it will contextualize the author and his work –and its representation in different cultural discourses- , trying to answer the following questions: Why does Schami choose the vampire for his story? What sources and narrative strategies does the author use? What are the characteristics and what is the function of Schami’s vampire?
Keywords: Vampire, Rafik Schami, Germany, migration
Concept of German-Arabic literature in the internal German-Syrian context. The work of Rafik Schami.
No full textThis bachelor thesis deals with the German-Arabic literature, especially with its part - German- Syrian literature, which is in detail described on the work of Rafik Schami, the Syrian Author, who writes in German. The theoretically part devote to the phenomenon of migration literature, political situation in Syria and in Germany and the biography of Rafik Schami. The practical part analyses his three works
Del origen del vampiro a un vampiro entre emigrantes en Die Wahrheit über Vampire und knoblauch de Rafik Schami
No full textResumen:
El objetivo de este ensayo es analizar la figura del vampiro que Rafik Schami utiliza en su relato Die Wahrheit über Vampire und Knoblauch (La verdad sobre los vampiros y el ajo). Después de presentar los primeros documentos sobre vampiros escritos en lengua alemana, se intenta contextualizar al autor y su obra –y su representación en diversas formas discursivas- a la par de dar respuesta a los siguientes interrogantes: ¿Por qué elige Rafik Schami precisamente esta figura para su narración? ¿De qué fuentes y estrategias narrativas se sirve? ¿Cómo lo caracteriza y qué función tiene?
Palabras clave: Vampiro, Rafik Schami, Alemania, emigración.
Abstract:
The aim of this essay is to analyze the vampire in Rafik Schami’s Die Wahrheit über Vampire und Knoblauch. After presenting the first documents about vampires written in German it will contextualize the author and his work –and its representation in different cultural discourses- , trying to answer the following questions: Why does Schami choose the vampire for his story? What sources and narrative strategies does the author use? What are the characteristics and what is the function of Schami’s vampire?
Keywords: Vampire, Rafik Schami, Germany, migration
A formação da identidade transcultural, a exemplo de Rafik Schami
No full textAt a time when the individual identity serves as a basis to comprehend the relations between
individuals in a society, it can be taken into account that the individual‟s formation process
springs up as a response derived from internal and external experiences. Through a theoretical
approach to Wolfgang Welsch‟s transcultural model, it is our purpose to verify how this
contact takes place. In order to illustrate these relations, the literary project of the Syrian author
Rafik Schami will be analyzed, whose oeuvre is characterized by a transcultural character.À une époque où l‟identité individuelle sert de base pour comprendre les relations entre les
individus d‟une société, on peut considérer que le processus de formation de l‟individu émerge
comme une réponse dérivée des expériences internes et externes. Grâce à une approche
théorique du modèle transculturel de Wolfgang Welsch, cet article a pour but de vérifier
comment ce contact a lieu. Afin d‟illustrer ces relations, nous analyserons le projet littéraire de
l‟auteur syrien Rafik Schami dont l‟œuvre se caractérise par un caractère transculturel.Em uma época em que a identidade individual serve de base para compreender as relações
entre os indivíduos de uma sociedade, pode-se levar em consideração que o processo de
formação do indivíduo surge como uma resposta oriunda de experiências internas e externas.
Por meio de uma abordagem teórica acerca do modelo de transculturalid
ade de Wolfgang Welsch, pretende-se verificar como esse contato se realiza. De modo a
ilustrar essas relações, far-se-á uso do projeto literário do autor sírio Rafik Schami, cuja obra se
caracteriza por uma natureza transcultural.En una época donde la identidad individual sirve como base para comprender las relaciones
entre los individuos en una sociedad, se puede considerar que el proceso de formación del
individuo surge como una respuesta producto de las experiencias internas y externas. Partiendo
del modelo teórico transcultural de Wolfgang Welsch, pretendemos verificar cómo este
contacto se presenta. Con el fin de ilustrar estas relaciones, analizaremos el proyecto literario
del autor sirio Rafik Schami, cuya obra se caracteriza por su carácter transcultural
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Spouses, lovers, and other strangers : men, women, and relationships in the works of Rafik Schami
No full textSyrian-German author Rafik Schami has a literary career spanning approximately thirty years. Although his native Syria often forms the backdrop for his stories, Schami’s intended audience is clearly German-speaking because he composes his works in German. As most of the discourse on minority literature in Germany focuses on Turkish-German literature, an examination of Schami’s texts would offer another perspective on this phenomenon. This dissertation project focuses on several novels from Rafik Schami, including Reise zwischen Nacht und Morgen, Die dunkle Seite der Liebe, Die Sehnsucht der Schwalbe, and Das Geheimnis des Kalligraphen, all of which thematize various types of interpersonal relationships, including familial and romantic. With few exceptions, men and women inhabit different worlds, and this complicates their ability to maintain a connection to one another. The world of women is frequently depicted as exotic or secretive, whereas the world of men is one of brutality. This separation of men and women is imposed by political and cultural means. In his characterization of the relationships between men and women, the author draws attention to their respective situations and criticizes the forces that draw them apart. Most of the scholarship on Rafik Schami’s texts has focused upon intercultural communication, migration, and exoticism. Very little attention has been paid to issues of gender, although relationships and differences between men and women inhabit a significant portion of his novels. This project employs a close reading of thematic as well as structural elements in order to examine the respective worlds of men and women and the author’s critique of the factors which led to this division. The project will also examine the reception of the author’s works in order to characterize their position within contemporary German literature.Germanic Studie
“Arabia” told in stories to the Germans : Intercultural Fictions by Rafik Schami
No full textLa plupart du temps, la littérature dite de l’immigration en Allemagne a fait l’objet d’études générales regroupant plusieurs auteurs. Ce travail, entièrement consacrée à l’œuvre de l’auteur germanophone d’origine syrienne Rafik Schami (né en 1946) entend réindividualiser l’œuvre de cet auteur et l’aborder dans son historicité et son évolution. Jouant sur ses origines ‘orientales’ et les mettant sans cesse en scène tout en écrivant en allemand, Rafik Schami s'inscrit dans la tradition d’un discours sur l’Orient et sa réception occidentale. A partir d’une double approche – l’une sociopoétique, l’autre relevant d'une analyse littéraire interne des textes – nous interrogeons d’une part les postures ‘interculturelles’ de l’auteur et ses rapports avec la tradition orale, entre Orient et Occident, et d’autre part, nous entendons démontrer comment son oeuvre met en question les rapports de pouvoir inhérents au couple que forment le centre et la périphérie. A la frontière entre une littérature populaire aux visées mercantiles et une littérature exigeante, les fictions interculturelles de Rafik Schami sont une tentative, parfois équivoque du fait des stratégies employées, de faire découvrir au lecteur occidental un 'ailleurs'. Que cet ailleurs soit le monde du travailleur étranger ou de l’immigré en Allemagne, un monde arabe vaguement délimité et mis en scène en tant qu’une « Arabie », ou encore la Syrie, Damas et ses environs, cet ailleurs est au cœur d’un projet culturel et politique qui voudrait sensibiliser le plus grand nombre aux destins des minorités et des sans-voix.Often times, German so called ‘literature of migration’ has been the subject of general studies which regroup several authors. This work, exclusively dedicated to the work of the Syrian-born (1946) German-speaking author Rafik Schami, intends to reindividualize the work of this author and to consider it in its historicity and evolution. Building his work largely upon his 'Oriental' origins all-whilst writing in German, Schami instrumentalizes his prose, intertextual references and his own public and literary persona to connect himself to a certain lineage of discourse on the Orient and the Western reception responding to that discourse. From a dual approach – one socio-poetical, and the other text-analytical –, we examine on one hand the many postures of Schami's 'intercultural' authorship as they relate to storytelling between the East and the West, and on the other hand consider his work as an inquiry of power relations inherent to the interplay between the center and the periphery. Somewhere between popular literature and belles-lettres, the intercultural fictions of Rafik Schami are an attempt, even at times ambiguous, to introduce the Western reader an ‘elsewhere’. This 'elsewhere', sometimes portrayed as the world of the worker or the immigrant in Germany, some others as an Arab world vaguely defined and staged as an "Arabia", and most frequently as Syria, or Damascus and its surroundings in particular, forms the core of Rafik Schami's work. It is through the 'elsewhere' that Schami aspires to raise cultural awareness in his readers, and aims to interest them in the lives of the minorities and of the unvoiced groups and individuals whose stories he tells
Through other eyes: alterity in translation of (and in) Rafik Schami
No full textO presente trabalho apresenta uma tradução comentada de dois contos do autor sírio Rafik Schami, exilado desde 1971 na Alemanha. Com uma literatura socialmente engajada e transcultural, Schami propõe em sua obra um amálgama de tradições e traz em questão o debate acerca da diversidade cultural e da convivência entre as culturas. O objetivo de ressaltar na tradução a alteridade do texto de partida somente pode ser concebido por meio de uma reflexão preliminar acerca dos conceitos de cultura e das relações transculturais. Estas questões jogam luz sobre a importância da atitude estrangeirizante de tradução e abrem espaço para uma discussão sobre seu caráter pós-criativo e como ela se alinha ao projeto sociocultural de Schami.The thesis at hand presents a commented translation of two narratives by the Syrian author Rafik Schami, who has been living in exile in Germany since 1971. By making use of a transcultural and socially-engaged literature, Schami offers in his writings an amalgam of traditions and brings up for discussion the debate about the cultural diversity and the coexistence amongst cultures. The goal of emphasizing the foreignness in the translation may only be achieved through a preliminary thought about the concepts of culture and the transcultural relations. These matters cast light upon the importance of the foreignizing translation practices and also give place to a discussion about its post-creative nature and how it aligns with Schamis sociocultural project
Between fairy tales and fiction books : "Märchen aus Malula" by Rafik Schami as a literary polemic against fairy tales
No full text"Märchen aus Malula" by Rafik Schami, first published in 1997, is a collection of retold Syrian folk fairy tales. The mentioned work is used by the Syrian-born author as an expression of both direct (based on the open criticism of the typical elements of a fairy tale) and indirect (built on numerous modifications of the source text) polemic against original fairy tales. Therefore, the objective of this article is to identify, categorize and finally evaluate the passages of polemical character. The terminology introduced in the phenomenological research of fairy tales by Max Lüthi was used to determine the correlation between the original tales and Schami’s retellings.Im Jahre 1997 erschien eine von Rafik Schami verfasste Sammlung neu erzählter syrischer Märchen, "Märchen aus Malula". Mit diesem Werk formuliert der deutsch-syrische Schriftsteller sowohl eine direkte (auf offener Kritik der typisch märchenhaften Bestandteile beruhende) als auch indirekte (durch die vorgenommenen Modifikationen des Ausgangstextes geäußerte) Polemik gegen die malulanischen Volksmärchen. Der vorliegende Aufsatz setzt sich daher zum Ziel, die oben genannten, dem Märchen gegenüber kritischen Textmerkmale zu finden, zu kategorisieren und ihren polemischen Charakter einzuschätzen. Für die Bestimmung des Verhältnisses zwischen den überlieferten und den von Schami bearbeiteten Versionen werden die von Max Lüthi eingeführten Begriffe der Märchenphänomenologie verwendet
Subverting the institutionalized reading tour: Rafik schami and Daniel Kehlmann
No full textGermany ismore prolific than any other country in theworld in promoting its authors through book tours. Given the demands placed upon Germany\u27s authors through the institutionally organized reading circuit, contemporary authors sometimes turn their experiences of these tours into themes in their own works. This essay primarily examines two novels in which the institution of the \u27Lesereise\u27 is a significant focus: Rafik Schami\u27s \u27Sieben Doppelgänger\u27 (1999) and Daniel Kehlmann\u27s \u27Ruhm\u27 (2009). Both texts treat the difficulties and irritations to which authors are subject when they engage in such tours. While Schami\u27s novel uses the motif of the Double to explore Germans\u27 (mis)perception of cultural alterity and to underscore why the author took a hiatus from the reading circuit late in the 1990s, Kehlmann\u27s \u27Ruhm\u27, in which the institutionalized reading tour constitutes only one, albeit significant, thread, broadly examines issues of celebrity and identity in our highly technological age. © W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2014
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