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    "pk": 45266,
    "title": "Fostering Transnational, Multilingual Collaboration: The Berlin-based Artists' Initiative WeiterSchreiben.jetzt",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The Berlin-based initiative \nWeiter Schreiben\n was founded in 2017 by the writer Annika Reich and responds to the daunting refugee situation in contemporary Europe by encouraging collaboration between established and displaced writers living in Germany. The initiative’s objective is to foster multidirectional networks instead of one-directional support.\nThis article explores how the organizational features of \nWeiter Schreiben\n are directly tied to its successful fostering of transnational and multilingual communities. A discussion of the initiative’s journal, (\nWeiter Schreiben Magazin\n, June, 2019) illustrates that these communities emerge through the conversation about – and the production and reception of – creative writing and other artistic endeavors. Specifically, the journal’s emphasis on locations and memories links the work of displaced writers and visual artists hailing from a range of continents and countries. My main case study is the collaborative exchange between the Syrian poet Lina Atfah who escaped Syria in 2014 and the author Nino Haratischwili who was born in Georgia and moved to Germany in 2003. The multiple forms of proximity that emerge between these two writers underscore the utter inadequacy of thinking in categories of national literatures. Inspired by Ann Rigney’s work on transnational memory and the “conjunctures” Susan Stanford Friedman observes between “‘New’ World Literature and Migration Studies,” I conclude by pondering some of the broader implications of the \nWeiter Schreiben\n initiative for the role of creative writing in an increasingly interconnected world.",
    "language": "en",
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        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "displaced writers"
        },
        {
            "word": "support networks"
        },
        {
            "word": "German Literature"
        },
        {
            "word": "Arabic poetry"
        },
        {
            "word": "World Literature"
        },
        {
            "word": "translation"
        },
        {
            "word": "Multidirectional Memory"
        },
        {
            "word": "nostalgia"
        },
        {
            "word": "spatial stories"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Articles",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/077104j9",
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        {
            "first_name": "Friederike",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Eigler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2021-05-29T18:46:04Z",
    "date_accepted": "2021-05-29T18:46:04Z",
    "date_published": "2021-05-30T07:00:00Z",
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