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Project

The narrative construction of religious identities in German-speaking Muslim fiction written by authors of Iranian or Iraqi origin.
Code
3F011014
Duration
01 October 2014 → 30 June 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
    • Theology and religious studies
Keywords
migration literature religious identity Contemporary German literature Identity Intercultural studies Islam Religion Literary studies
 
Project description

After 2001, Muslim fiction in German proliferated. My research project analyses religious practices and experiences of Islam as well as the narrative construction of religious identities in literary texts written in German by authors of Iranian and Iraqi descent, using a rhetorical and narratological approach.