{"id":8495,"date":"2015-05-29T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T09:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/the-james-knopf-file-afro-german-word-and-dispute-art\/"},"modified":"2015-05-29T09:51:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T09:51:29","slug":"the-james-knopf-file-afro-german-word-and-dispute-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/the-james-knopf-file-afro-german-word-and-dispute-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The James Knopf File. Afro-German word and dispute art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Die-Akte-James-Knopf.-Afrodeutsche-Wort-und-Streitkunst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-2424 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Die-Akte-James-Knopf.-Afrodeutsche-Wort-und-Streitkunst-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"The James Knopf File. Afro-German Word and Dispute Art\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Die-Akte-James-Knopf.-Afrodeutsche-Wort-und-Streitkunst-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Die-Akte-James-Knopf.-Afrodeutsche-Wort-und-Streitkunst.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;&#8216;The James Knopf File&#8217; is a poetic negotiation of Afro-German cultural identity. Whereas in the 1980s black Germans were still considered exotic and foreigners in their own country, in the new millennium they are Germans with a footnote of migration background. In a country that has long seen itself as <em>homogeneously<\/em> white and Christian, &#8216;deviant&#8217; identities must be constantly renegotiated in radical ways. The <em>James Knopf File<\/em>  is negotiation and reckoning at the same time. The verses sift through the German landscape with poetic skill and the marginal gaze of an &#8216;other&#8217; German, always on the trail of the excesses of German racist everyday reality and colonial continuity. Beyond multicultural romanticism, Philipp Khabo K\u00f6psell unmasks the German culture of dominance while creating a protective space for everything interpersonal.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrast-verlag.de\/gesamtprogramm\/reihen\/insurrection-notes\/die-akte-james-knopf-352-detail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Announcement of the publisher<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Philipp Khabo K\u00f6psell 2010: The James Knopf File. Afro-German Word and Dispute Art. M\u00fcnster: Unrast<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore <a href=\"http:\/\/links-lesen.de\">links-lesen.de<\/a>, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/links-lesen.buchkatalog.de\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/Product\/1569182\/55741\/10002\/-3\/Buecher_Drama-und-Lyrik\/Philipp-K-Koepsell\/Die-Akte-James-Knopf\/4099276460822241232\/4099276460822241224\/4099276460822241224\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;The James Knopf File&#8217; is a poetic negotiation of Afro-German cultural identity. Whereas in the 1980s black Germans were still considered exotic and foreigners in their own country, in the new millennium they are Germans with a footnote of migration background. In a country that has long seen itself as homogeneously white and Christian, &#8216;deviant&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,468],"tags":[473,452,387,365,363,391],"class_list":{"0":"post-8495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-poetry","8":"tag-black-germans","9":"tag-black-history","10":"tag-empowerment-en","11":"tag-identity","12":"tag-racism","13":"tag-resistance"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"bunyad-small":false,"bunyad-medium":false,"bunyad-full":false,"bunyad-viewport":false,"bunyad-768":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"glokal e.V.","author_link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/author\/glokal\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"&#8220;&#8216;The James Knopf File&#8217; is a poetic negotiation of Afro-German cultural identity. 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