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Literature as colonial loot: histories of provenance

[Originally in: German]

Exhibition "Literature as Colonial Loot: Histories of Provenance 1910-2021", from April 26 to June 30 / April 26, 6 - 8 p.m.

Opening and guest lecture by Mèhèza Kalibani: Voices as Loots: How Songs and Proverbs of Colonized People Made their Way to Berlin

Can Literatur - analogous to looted art - become colonial loot Beute? In the light of current debates on design, reconstruction and restitution, the exhibition aims to show how literary modernity can be seen through the eyes of local people.

Ausstellung im Rahmen des Seminars ?Looted Literature? in der Philologischen Bibliothek
 
Freie Universität Berlin
Habelschwerdter Allee 5
14195 Berlin

Fotos: Bernd Wannenmacher

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