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<p>Cosmin, a twelve-year-old Roma boy from Transylvania, only goes to school for a short while. For his mother, it is more important, that he, the only male of a household with many mouths to feed, help her with work. But Cosmin’s teacher does not give up and proposes a bargain: If Cosmin’s mother lets her children go to school, she will get electricity from the school to be able to watch TV. Due to this arrangement, Cosmin returns to school for a few days, becomes a little thief and embarks on a journey that can become an opportunity for him. A kind of a bildungsroman, a coming of age novel focused on the ups and downs between two worlds on Romanian soil, that could not be more different from one another: the Romanian majority and the Roma minority. This article sets out to document life at the brink of society, with all of its facets.</p>
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Cosmin, a twelve-year-old Roma boy from Transylvania, only goes to school for a short while. For his mother, it is more important, that he, the only male of a household with many mouths to feed, help her with work. But Cosmin’s teacher does not give up and proposes a bargain: If Cosmin’s mother lets her children go to school, she will get electricity from the school to be able to watch TV. Due to this arrangement, Cosmin returns to school for a few days, becomes a little thief and embarks on a journey that can become an opportunity for him. A kind of a bildungsroman, a coming of age novel focused on the ups and downs between two worlds on Romanian soil, that could not be more different from one another: the Romanian majority and the Roma minority. This article sets out to document life at the brink of society, with all of its facets.

Fremdheitskonstruktionen in Karin Gündischs Roman <italic>COSMIN. Von einem, der auszog, das Leben zu lernen</italic>

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Fremdheitskonstruktionen in Karin Gündischs Roman 

Cosmin, a twelve-year-old Roma boy from Transylvania, only goes to school for a short while. For his mother, it is more important, that he, the only male of a...

Fremdheitskonstruktionen in Karin Gündischs Roman COSMIN. Von einem, der auszog, das Leben zu lernen

Published Online: Apr 22, 2023

Page range: 193 - 207

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2022-0011

Keywords
image of the self, image of the other, understanding otherness, intercultural hermeneutics, intercultural communication, intercultural education

© 2023 Ana Karlstedt, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Fremdheitskonstruktionen in Karin Gündischs Roman COSMIN. Von einem, der auszog, das Leben zu lernen

Published Online: Apr 22, 2023

Page range: 193 - 207

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2022-0011

Keywordsimage of the self, image of the other, understanding otherness, intercultural hermeneutics, intercultural communication, intercultural education

© 2023 Ana Karlstedt, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
image of the self, image of the other, understanding otherness, intercultural hermeneutics, intercultural communication, intercultural education