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Abstract The following contribution begins with an overview of a history and critique of the contemporary usage of the term postmigrant art and literature. I then examine the writing by authors of colour in Germany after the racist killings in the city of Hanau in 2020. Taking Shida Bazyar’s novel Sisters in Arms (Drei Kameradinnen) as a point of departure, I investigate what I refer to as the art and politics of confusion and ambivalence. As I discuss within the context of the novel, the narrative strategies and aesthetics reflect racist practices of victim blaming, evidence tampering and the scandalous failure of state institutions to restore justice or fight the rising threat from the far-right.