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    Zugehörigkeit trotz Ortlosigkeit. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Betrachtung des Jugendromans Dazwischen : Ich von Julya Rabinowich. Mit einem Didaktisierungsvorschlag.
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12) Van Wyk, Mizan; Dos Santos, Isabel; Schier, Carmen; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Dazwischen: Ich (2016) is a young-adult novel, set in a German-speaking country, which follows the experiences of Madina, a refugee teenage girl, and her family in their struggle to recreate belonging in a new environment. As the novel is written from Madina’s perspective, its study addresses a gap in current research on belonging, which often does not focus on the experience of belonging from the individual’s perspective. The title of the novel alludes to a state of rootlessness (Ortlosigkeit), and thus also addresses a second gap in current research on belonging. Due to globalisation, belonging can no longer be viewed as a rooted experience (Pfaff-Czarnecka 2012). Therefore, this thesis argues that belonging can be created despite rootlessness (Ortlosigkeit), in other words: belonging can be created anywhere. Based on the aforementioned research gaps, the following thesis aims to make a contribution to the field of German Cultural Studies by examining the theme of ‘belonging’ against a backdrop of rootlessness with the novel Dazwischen: Ich as a literary object of investigation. As an extension of this thesis, and addressing the relevance of literature as part of the subject German as a Foreign Language (GFL; Deutsch als Fremdsprache), parts of the novel have been didactized and carried out as a teaching sequence with a group of grade 10 learners, who have GFL as a school subject. The aim of the didactization and teaching sequence is to emphasise the value of literary texts for GFL and to prove that cultural knowledge can be obtained through working with a literary text, thereby opening channels for discussion about ‘belonging’, not only in the novel and in German-speaking countries, but also in their own lives and own country i.e. South Africa.