This summer school will examine the function and meaning of cultural transfer of new narratives written by minorities and migrants. We will also study their works as curcial tools in building sustainable societies.

The concept of cultural transfer and various definitions of ‘minorities’ and ‘migrants’ will be discussed and examined in their historical and political contexts.
Topics we discuss include:

• Literary representations of language loss and revitalisation by minority and indigenous writers
• The reaction of minority writers from various regions and languages to societal, political and cultural processes
• Migration as a matter of literary form, and literature itself as a migrating and transformative concept
• Notions of diaspora in relation to their applicability for transnational literary and cultural studies
• A focus on different aspects of transcultural messages
• Transnational approaches to cultural narratives of exile

At the end of this summer school, students will have gained knowledge of and insight in historical, cultural and political contexts of minority and migration studies and will be able to adopt key concepts and a transnational approach in their own field of study.