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Problematizing Cool Germany: Constructing Images of Refugees on the Covers of German Picture Books

Authors
Lisda Liyanti1, *
1German Studies Program, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: lisda.liyanti31@ui.ac.id
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Lisda Liyanti
Available Online 29 May 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_48How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Cool Germany; Children’s picture book; multiculturalism; refugee
Abstract

The 2012 Syrian conflict forced millions of refuges to Germany that introduced changes to German policy. In the middle of public weighing of the pros and cons, a special edition of The Economist (April 2018 edition) published an editorial titled Cool Germany voiced a tone of optimism for the refuges and projected Germany as a more open, diverse and in vogue than other nations. This research scrutinises children’s picture book covers in an attempt to investigate whether or not the spirit of Cool Germany is introduced as the foundation of multiculturalism in early literacy programmes in Germany. The selected children books were published after 2012, and all of them discuss issues pertaining to refugees. By applying the semiotic concept of signs, this study concludes that the spirit of Cool Germany is indeed to be found in early literacy material meant for German children and that this essence is expected to become a driving force for Germany for generations to come.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the fourth Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Arts and Humanities Stream (AHS-APRISH 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 May 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_48
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-058-9_48How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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