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a student blog on several present-day authors writing in German
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Tschick: Translating John Green
Tschick: Translating John Green
Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Tschick bears all the genre tropes inherent to Young Adult Fiction. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl, two awkward loners…
Logan Carter
May 4, 2023
Tschick: a road trip toward maturing
Tschick: a road trip toward maturing
When breaking down genres and themes in books, young adult (YA) and coming-of-age stories “focus on the growth of a protagonist from…
Trinidy Thompson
May 4, 2023
An Abundance of Tropes
An Abundance of Tropes
Towards the Walachei and Adulthood
Donovon Moore
May 3, 2023
Cultural Memory and Cultural Forgetting: Nora Krug’s “Belonging”
Cultural Memory and Cultural Forgetting: Nora Krug’s “Belonging”
Have you ever felt alienated or disconnected? If so, who, where, or what was was it from? Was it your family, or maybe even your home…
Logan Carter
Apr 11, 2023
Reclaiming Heimat
Reclaiming Heimat
Coming to terms with one's past can be a difficult and long process, yet when looking back at the past, many personal questions can be…
Trinidy Thompson
Apr 11, 2023
Heimat
Heimat
Overcoming the past to recover the more distant past.
SterlingT
Apr 10, 2023
Heimat Sweet Heimat?
Heimat Sweet Heimat?
Does it mean Belonging to or Belonging in a place?
Donovon Moore
Apr 9, 2023
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