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Type of Document Thesis Author MacCarroll, Margaret Catherine Author's Email Address mmccrrll4@aol.com URN etd-04102005-231408 Title May Ayim: A Woman in the Margin of German Society Degree Master of Arts Department Modern Languages, Department of Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Birgit Maier-Katkin Committee Chair John Simons Committee Member Winnifred Adolph Committee Member Keywords
- Blacks in Germany
- Afro-deutsche
- Afro-Germans
- May Ayim
- May Opitz
Date of Defense 2005-04-01 Availability unrestricted Abstract This work explores the life of the Afro-German writer May Ayim by analyzing her writings as well as by discussing the social circumstances in which she lived. Chapter 1 provides a look at the Ayim’s life, with special emphasis on major factors influencing her childhood. The effects of the personal as well as social pressures that Ayim dealt with as a child and young adult are also discussed. Chapter 2 focuses on the history of Afro-German children born shortly after World War II. Chapter 3 includes an explanation of Minor Literature and an examination of May Ayim as an author of such literature. Her importance as such is established. Due to Ayim’s position outside the mainstream of German society social factors that greatly affected her life as a result of this situation are discussed in Chapter 4. These factors are: identity, culture, and ethnicity. In Chapter 5 Ayim’s attempts to incorporate both the white and black aspects of herself despite the deeply rooted history of racism in Germany also discussed. Chapter 6 includes an examination of the toll that Ayim’s familial and social experiences played on her feelings of romantic love, especially toward another Afro-German. In Chapter 7 there is an examination of the exhaustion that Ayim felt toward the end of her life.
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