![C Pam Zhang: How Much of These Hills Is Gold [engl.] @festivalberlin](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LFBM9mjJWkA/maxresdefault.jpg)
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In her first novel, the daughter of Chinese immigrants recounts the flight of two orphans across the prairies. In the final stages of the American gold rush, they search for a home in a strange world and are filled with longing for an identity that transcends the boundaries of origin and gender. »C Pam Zhang's arresting, beautiful first novel is filled with myths of her own making as well as sorrows and joys« [New York Times].
Host: Toby Ashraf
Speaker: Hêvîn Tekin
In her first novel, the daughter of Chinese immigrants recounts the flight of two orphans across the prairies. In the final stages of the American gold rush, they search for a home in a strange world and are filled with longing for an identity that transcends the boundaries of origin and gender. »C Pam Zhang's arresting, beautiful first novel is filled with myths of her own making as well as sorrows and joys« [New York Times].
Host: Toby Ashraf
Speaker: Hêvîn Tekin
![C Pam Zhang: How Much of These Hills Is Gold [engl.]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LFBM9mjJWkA/mqdefault.jpg "C Pam Zhang: How Much of These Hills Is Gold [engl.]
In her first novel, the daughter of Chinese immigrants recounts the flight of two orphans across the prairies. In the final stages of the American gold rush, they search for a home in a strange world and are filled with longing for an identity that transcends the boundaries of origin and gender. »C Pam Zhangs arresting, beautiful first novel is filled with myths of her own making as well as sorrows and joys« [New York Times].
Host: Toby Ashraf
Speaker: Hêvîn Tekin")
![Robert F. Reid-Pharr on Toni Morrisons Essays [engl.]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MYYpWAaMJcU/mqdefault.jpg "Robert F. Reid-Pharr on Toni Morrisons Essays [engl.]
Essays were a sociopolitical and aesthetic medium of reflection for Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, through which she demonstrated a stylistically elegant and forceful moral stance. Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Professor of African and African American Studies Robert F. Reid-Pharr (Harvard University) lectures on Morrison’s essayistic work.")
![Pascal Bruckner: Der eingebildete Rassismus | An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt [frz./dt.]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NfqAQhuCmQM/mqdefault.jpg "Pascal Bruckner: Der eingebildete Rassismus | An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt [frz./dt.]
Vor dem Hintergrund der islamistischen Anschläge in Conflans-¬Sainte-¬Honorine und Nizza richtet sich die Streitschrift des französischen Philosophen Pascal Bruckner »im antitotalitären und laizistischen Geist von Voltaire und Camus« [Die Welt] einerseits gegen den Islamismus und andererseits gegen jenen Teil der politischen Linken, die Kritik am Islam durch den Vorwurf des Rassismus und der Islamophobie diskreditieren will.
Moderation: Thierry Chervel
Against the background of the Islamist attacks in Conflans-Sainte¬Honorine and Nice, the argumentative writings of the French philosopher Pascal Bruckner, »in the anti¬totalitarian and secular spirit of Voltaire and Camus« [Die Welt], are directed on the one hand against Islamism and on the other hand against that part of the political left that wants to discredit criticism of Islam by accusing it of racism and Islamophobia.
Host: Thierry Chervel")
