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Madgermanes

By Birgit Weyhe

Madgermanes Manga

Madgermanes

By Birgit Weyhe

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'Madgermanes' is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20,000 of them were sent from the People's Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for their socialist sister country. After the Berlin Wall fell, almost all of them lost their residency status. Decades later, they are still waitingfor most of their wages to be paid.
Birgit Weyhe depicts their search for belonging and a place to call home, caught between two cultures and two states that no longer exist. Based on extensive interviews, she creates three fictitious narrators and transforms their stories into a visual language that skilfully interweaves African and European narrative traditions.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
236
Release Date:
2021-10-01
Publication Date:
2021-10-01
Publisher:
Voland & Quist
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
386391306X
ISBN13:
9783863913069
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
727 g
Height:
182 cm
Width:
241 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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