{"id":7059,"date":"2010-05-11T02:02:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T02:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:06:58","slug":"may-ayim-a-woman-in-the-margin-of-german-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7059","title":{"rendered":"May Ayim: A Woman in the Margin of German Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

May Ayim: A Woman in the Margin of German Society<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Florida State University College of Arts and Scienes
\nSpring Semester, 2005
\n76 pages<\/p>\n

Margaret MacCarroll<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Modern Languages: German Division
\nFlorida State University<\/em><\/p>\n

A thesis submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts<\/em><\/p>\n

This work explores the life of the Afro-German<\/a> writer May Ayim<\/a> by analyzing her writings as well as by discussing the social circumstances in which she lived. Chapter 1 provides a look at the Ayim\u2019s 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<\/a>. 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\u2019s 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\u2019s attempts to incorporate both the white and black aspects of herself despite the deeply rooted history of racism in Germany are also discussed.<\/strong> Chapter 6 includes an examination of the toll that Ayim\u2019s familial and social experiences played on her feelings of romantic love, especially toward another Afro-German. Chapter 7 examines the exhaustion that Ayim felt toward the end of her life.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABSTRACT
\nINTRODUCTION<\/p>\n

1. GROWING UP BLACK IN GERMANY
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ayim\u2019s Struggle with \u201cOtherness\u201c
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Childhood Pressure
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The White World and Ayim\u2019s Black Father
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grasping her Africanness
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Desire for Whiteness even in Africa<\/p>\n

2. HISTORY OF RACISM IN GERMANY
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recent History of Racism and Mischlingskinder after World War II<\/p>\n

3. MAY AYIM, AUTHOR OF MINOR LITERATURE
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Afro-German Minority Represented in Ayim\u2019s Poetry<\/p>\n

4. THE IDENTITY, CULTURE AND ETHNICITY OF PEOPLE ON THE FRINGES<\/p>\n

5. MINOR RACE IN MAJORITY CULTURE
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Racism on the Global Scale
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Incorporating Her White and Black Self<\/p>\n

6. MAY AYIM\u2019S LOVE LIFE<\/p>\n

7. AYIM\u2019S EXHAUSTION ON THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY<\/p>\n

CONCLUSION
\nNOTES
\nBIBLIOGRAPHY
\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH<\/p>\n

Read the entire thesis here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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