Prof. Dr. phil. Susanne Gehrmann

Prof. Gehrmann erforscht afrikanische Literaturen, Kulturen und ihre globalen Verflechtungen mit Fokus auf zeitgenössische Schreibweisen, Repräsentationen und Diskurse. Ihre aktuelle Arbeit konzentriert sich auf populäre Literatur in Afrika (insbesondere Togo), auf Übersetzungsgeschichte und -praxis sowie auf Fragen von Geschlecht, Gewalt und kolonialen Nachwirkungen in literarischen und visuellen Medien. Sie untersucht, wie afrikanische Autorinnen und Autoren globale Themen (Kindersoldaten, Migration, Geschlechtergewalt) ästhetisch verhandeln und für unterschiedliche Leserschaften schreiben. Ihre Methoden verbinden Archivforschung, Textanalyse und kulturhistorische Kontextualisierung; sie arbeitet zudem an innovativen Lehrkonzepten für afrikanische Sprachen und an der Erforschung von Kreativwirtschaft in Afrika.

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• Fachkonferenz: Empires and Boundaries. Reconsidering Issues of Race, Class and Gender in African and Asian Colonial Settings ( Veranstaltung: 18.09.-20.09.06, Berlin)

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  Förderer: DFG sonstige Programme Zeitraum: 09/2006 - 09/2006 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. phil. Susanne Gehrmann

• Symposium "Conventions & Conversions. Generic Innovations in African Literature" (Veranstaltung: 1.3. - 4.3.2010, Berlin)

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  Förderer: Volkswagen Stiftung Zeitraum: 12/2009 - 06/2010 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. phil. Susanne Gehrmann

• Medienwechsel und Intermedialität in togoischen Kulturen

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  Förderer: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Zeitraum: 01/2013 - 12/2016 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. phil. Susanne Gehrmann

• Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitanism's ambivalent mobilities

  2015

  Journal of African Cultural Studies · DOI

  This paper explores some aspects of the controversy which is now surrounding Afropolitanism, and examines the philosophical and literary output in relation to the concept. Mobility between spaces, in the cosmopolitan tradition, as well as digital mobility and visibility through the use of social media, are considered as key elements of Afropolitanism as a diasporic movement. So Afropolitanism can be described as a form of cosmopolitanism with African roots. However, the commodification of the term as a brand, and the class bias of Afropolitan lifestyle are more problematic. In the second part of the paper, the positions of African intellectuals are shown to convey more philosophical depth and moral relevance to Afropolitanism. In this vision of the concept, as it was initiated by Achille Mbembe, Afropolitanism is relevant for both the diaspora and for Africa. Afropolitanism in this understanding of it decentres, de-essentializes and valorizes the continent. The paper closes with readings of two novels of celebrated writers of the Afropolitan generation, namely Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go and Teju Cole's Open City. These novels feature complex Afropolitan characters and create a dense literary landscape through which to explore contemporary Afro-diasporic identity politics. The spatial and cultural mobilities expressed in this literature confirm Mbembe's repositioning of Africa as a philosophical locus of passage and mobility.

• Empires and boundaries : rethinking race, class, and gender in colonial settings

  2008

  List of Figures. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Empires, Boundaries and the Production of Difference. Harald Fischer-Tine and Susanne Gerhmann. 2. Education for Work in Colony and Metropole: The Case of Imperial Germany, c. 1880-1914. Sebastian Conrad. 3. Hierarchies of Punishment in Colonial India: European Convicts and the Racial Dividend (c. 1860-1890). Harald Fischer-Tine. 4. Boundaries of Race: Representations of Indisch in Colonial Indonesia Revisited. Vincent J.H. Houben. 5. Contested Boundaries of Whiteness: Public Service Recruitment and the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association, 1876-1901. Satoshi Mizutani. 6. Citizenship and the Politics of Difference in French Africa, 1946-60. Frederick Cooper. 7. Gendering the Colonial Enterprise: La Mere-Patrie and Maternalism in France and French Indochina. Nicola J. Cooper. 8. A Hybrid Gaze from Delacroix to Djebar: Visual Encounters and the Construction of the Female Other in the Colonial Discourse of Maghreb. Claudia Gronemann. 9. In the Empire's Eyes: Africa in Italian Colonial Cinema between Imperial Fantasies and Blind Spots. Immacolata Amodeo. 10. Rationalizing the World: British Detective Stories and the Orient. Margrit Pernau. 11. African Americans in West and Central Africa in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Agents of European Colonial Rule? Katja Fullberg-Stolberg. 12. The Boundaries of Blackness: African American Culture and the Making of a Black Public Sphere in Colonial South Africa. Zine Magubane. Index.