The Festival Neue Literatur partners present "Whose/Story Is History: Shifting the Perspective," which will feature readings by and a conversation among authors Katja Brunner, Maaza Mengiste, Sharon Dodua Otoo and Doron Rabinovici, and will be moderated by Tess Lewis, who curated this year's festival.
What do we hear when unheeded voices are given their say? How are public narratives subverted by the powerful, or even the powerless? Can stories of individuals long dead help break cycles of injustice?  In this conversation, a Festival Neue Literatur (FNL) event, acclaimed German- and English-language authors Maaza Mengiste,  Doron Rabinovici, Katja Brunner, and Sharon Dodua Otoowill read from their recent work and discuss how they use literature to disrupt conventional notions of history and historical timelines. Their works animate the stories of the Ethiopian women who fought against the Italian invasion of their country in 1935, a photographer who loses control of his images, women who have been branded as witches or hysterics and silenced through violence and abuse, and the interrelation of women’s lives across generations and continents. The conversation will be moderated by award-winning literary translator and writer and festival curator Tess Lewis.

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