Konzeptionen von Europa in afrikanischen Literaturen seit der Negritude

1492年以来的欧洲扩张和霸权对欧洲/西方的历史以及以前受欧洲殖民统治的“全球南方”国家的历史都是一个具有深远影响的事件。这一历史上独特的进程，由于其全球范围和持续时间，对社会、政治和经济制度产生了形成性的影响，从而影响到前殖民社会的科学、文化、文学和哲学领域。探讨非洲人如何通过文学实践和理论话语回应欧洲对现代性、文明和进步的主要叙述，使殖民主义和种族主义合法化，将打开一个迄今为止被否定的欧洲视角，并提高人们对两大洲纠缠在一起的故事的认识。我的研究兴趣超越了简单的观点，认为非洲人和非洲裔欧洲人仅仅是殖民或歧视欧洲现代性的被动参与者的修订：通过非洲和非洲散居者作家和理论家的棱镜对欧洲的凝视也使人们能够看到起源于非洲及其散居者本身的现代性的各种形式和解释，以及这些对欧洲现代化的贡献。

The European expansion and hegemony since 1492 constitutes a profoundly consequential event ¿ both for the history of Europe / the West and that of the nations of the "global South" formerly subjected to European colonial rule. This historically unique process, given its global scope and duration, has had formative influences on the social, political and economic systems, and therefore impacted on the areas of science, culture, literature and philosophy of the formerly colonized societies. To pursue the question of how Africans by means of literary practices and theoretical discourses responded to the European master narrative of modernity, civilisation and progress to legitimize colonialism and racism, will open up a so far negated perspective on Europe and raise awareness for the entangled (his)stories of the two continents. My research interest goes beyond a simple revision of the perspective that views Africans and people of African descent in Europe merely as colonized or discriminated passive participants of European modernity: The gaze onto Europe through the prism of African and African-diasporic authors and theorists also allows for a view of the various forms and interpretations of modernity which originated in Africa and its diasporas themselves, and how these have contributed to modernity in Europe.