Rude Girl
Weyhe, Birgit
(29.04.2024)
Produktnummer:
9783863914028
Verlag: Verlag Voland & Quist
Author: Weyhe, Birgit
ISBN: 978-3-86391-402-8
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2024
Verlag: Verlag Voland & Quist
Author: Weyhe, Birgit
ISBN: 978-3-86391-402-8
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2024
Produktinformationen "Rude Girl"
The white German graphic novelist Birgit Weyhe teaches at a US college through an academic exchange program. At a conference of American Germanists in the Midwest, she is accused of cultural expropriation. Is she exploiting her privileges as a white writer when she tells stories about Black people? She meets Priscilla Layne, an African American professor of German studies with Caribbean roots. Growing up, Priscilla is labelled an ‘Oreo’: too white for her Black classmates, and too Black for the white kids. Rebelling against everything and everyone all at once, she joins the skinhead movement and becomes a rude girl, only to discover a community where she feels valued. Music, clothes, hair, food, class, race, gender, education – her life and identity are a complex composite. But how should Birgit Weyhe tell a life story like Priscilla’s? What mistakes does she need to avoid? The act of storytelling itself becomes its own narrative layer in this unique graphic biography.
Rezensionen "Rude Girl"
“Birgit Weyhe develops a rhythm of empathy in her comic. She tells the story of Crystal and her immigrant family like a rap. Six pictures per page, that’s the beat.”Die Zeit
“Full of violence, pain, suffering and rebellion and a long way from what you’d expect of an academic career.”
taz
“Alongside the stark visual force that Rude Girl develops, what marks it out is its montage construction: in a second narrative layer, Weyhe presents the US professor Priscilla Layne with sections of her own drawn biography. The result is a productive and extremely open dialogue between two cooperating narrators: on cultural appropriation, race and gender. An essential contribution to our current identity debates.”
Jury statement, Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair
| Hauptlesemotive: | Auseinandersetzen |
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| Nebenlesemotive: | Eintauchen |
| Produktart: | Taschenbuch |
| Produktform: | Taschenbuch |
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