Dr. Biz Nijdam will be moderating an event on German comics and international dialogue on March 11\, featuri ng Dr. Priscilla Layne and Birgit Weyhe\, who will be discussing Weyhe’s ne w graphic novel Rude Girl.
Register here via Zoom: https://global.unc.edu/event/german-comics-and-in ternational-dialogue-birgit-weyhes-rude-girl-2022/
From the publi sher Avant-Verlag: “In times of globalization we can move anywhere\, work f rom anywhere\, live anywhere – assuming we have the right skin color\, suff icient education and most importantly: the right passport. As part of an ex change program\, the white Birgit Weyhe from Germany taught at a US college . During a conference of American Germanists in the Midwest\, she was confr onted with accusations of cultural appropriation. Does she abuse her privil eges as a white writer when telling stories about black people?
"She meets Priscilla Layne\, an Afro-American German studies professor with Cari bbean roots. She is an 'Oreo' – too white for the black classmates and her skin is too dark for the white ones. She decides to rebel against everyone and everything at once by joining the skinhead movement in her youth and be coming a rude girl.
"But how is Birgit Weyhe supposed to tell a life story like this? What mistakes should you avoid? The narrative construct it self becomes its own narrative level in this biography.”
Featur ed image: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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