Stadt als Erfahrungsraum kultureller und sozialer Grenzlinien in der interkulturellen Adoleszenzliteratur. Eine gendersensible Betrachtung des Handlungsraums „Viertel“

Abstract

Since the mid-1990s, the narration of the city as a culturally hybrid space in adolescent literature has primarily focused on the multicultural and often socially weak neighborhood as a narrative space. This neighborhood has a strong identifying effect on the characters and symbolizes not only home, but also the limitation of the individual’s radius of action by social and cultural boundaries within the urban space. The plot is almost always carried by the characters’ experiences of violence or their own violence. The chapter aims to complement these observations with a gender-sensitive perspective on the experience of the city as a place of social and cultural borderlines. In addition to exploring the relationship between urban space, interculturality and violence, it focuses on the question, which gender-specific perceptions of urban space can be analyzed and which different possibilities for action and setting of boundaries with regard to the freedom of movement of boys and girls can be recognized in the texts.