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Transnationalism in Contemporary German-language Literature

German Studies Association. Conference
Transnationalism in Contemporary German language Literature Book PDF

Author : German Studies Association. Conference
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139252

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Transnationalism in Contemporary German-language Literature by German Studies Association. Conference Pdf

"Transnationalism" has become a key term in debates in the social sciences and humanities, reflecting concern with today's unprecedented flows of commodities, fashions, ideas, and people across national borders. Forced and unforced mobility, intensified cross-border economic activity due to globalization, and the rise of trans- and supranational organizations are just some of the ways in which we now live both within, across, and beyond national borders. Literature has always been a means of border crossing and transgression-whether by tracing physical movement, reflecting processes of cultural transfer, traveling through space and time, or mapping imaginary realms. It is also becoming more and more a "moving medium" that creates a transnational space by circulating around the world, both reflecting on the reality of transnationalism and participating in it. This volume refines our understanding of transnationalism both as a contemporary reality and as a concept and an analytical tool. Engaging with the work of such writers as Christian Kracht, Ilija Trojanow, Julya Rabinowich, Charlotte Roche, Helene Hegemann, Antje R vic Strubel, Juli Zeh, Friedrich D rrenmatt, and Wolfgang Herrndorf, it builds on the excellent work that has been done in recent years on "minority" writers; German-language literature, globalization, and "world literature"; and gender and sexuality in relation to the "nation." Contributors: Hester Baer, Anke S. Biendarra, Claudia Breger, Katharina Gerstenberger, Elisabeth Herrmann, Christina Kraenzle, Maria Mayr, Tanja Nusser, Lars Richter, Carrie Smith-Prei, Faye Stewart, Stuart Taberner. Elisabeth Herrmann is Associate Professor of German at Stockholm University. Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German at the University of Alberta. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Leeds and is a Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch; German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century

Stuart Taberner
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Author : Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319504841

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Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century by Stuart Taberner Pdf

This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of a new cosmopolitanism. The book proceeds through a series of close readings of key texts of the last twenty years, with an emphasis on the most recent works. Authors include Terézia Mora, Richard Wagner, Olga Grjasnowa, Marlene Streeruwitz, Vladimir Vertlib, Navid Kermani, Felicitas Hoppe, Daniel Kehlmann, Ilija Trojanow, Christian Kracht, and Christa Wolf, representing the diversity of contemporary German-language writing. Through a careful process of juxtaposition and differentiation, the individual chapters demonstrate that writers of both minority and nonminority backgrounds address transnationalism in ways that certainly vary but which also often overlap in surprising ways.

New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature

Frauke Matthes
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Author : Frauke Matthes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031103186

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New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature by Frauke Matthes Pdf

The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany’s self-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to current discourses of masculinity in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality, ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere.

New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature

Frauke Matthes
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Author : Frauke Matthes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 303110319X

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New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature by Frauke Matthes Pdf

'Frauke Matthes probes themes of difference, desire and cultural (dis-)location in contemporary German fiction, illuminating the ambivalent and varied realities of masculinity in compelling readings of texts by five prominent male authors. With its welcome emphasis on writers who are culturally 'other' to a hegemonic German mainstream, the study diversifies and deepens critical perspectives on lived and imagined masculinities within the wider landscape of global neoliberal ecocidal capitalism.'--Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Professor of German, University College Cork, Ireland The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany's self-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to current discourses of masculinity in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality, ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere. Frauke Matthes is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author and co-editor of several books and articles on contemporary German-language writing, masculinities in literature, and transnational and world literature. .

German in the World

James Hodkinson,Benedict Schofield
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Author : James Hodkinson,Benedict Schofield
Publisher : Studies in German Literature L
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781640140332

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German in the World by James Hodkinson,Benedict Schofield Pdf

Weighs the value of Germanophone culture, and its study, in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and academic change.

German Literature As a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919

Lynne Tatlock,Kurt Beals
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Author : Lynne Tatlock,Kurt Beals
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781640141001

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German Literature As a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919 by Lynne Tatlock,Kurt Beals Pdf

A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period. The cultural formations of the so-called Age of Nationalism (1848-1919) have shaped German-language literary studies to the present day, for better or worse. Literary histories, German self-representations, the view from abroad - all of these perspectives offer images of a culture ever more concerned with formulating a coherent, nationally focused idea of its origins, history, and cultural community. But even in this historical moment the German-speaking territories were not culturally self-contained; international forces always played a significant role in the constitution of the so-called "German" literary and cultural field. This volume rethinks the historical period with fourteen case studies that bring into view the push and pull of the national and international in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, undertaking a reframing of literary-cultural history that recognizes the interrelatedness of literatures and cultures across political and linguistic boundaries. Viewing even overtly national literary and cultural projects as belonging to an international system, these case studies examine the interrelations, organization, and positioning of the agents, forces, enterprises, and processes that constituted the German-language literary-cultural field, locating these ostensibly national developments within an inter- or even anti-national context.

Transnational German Studies

Rebecca Braun,Benedict Schofield
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Author : Rebecca Braun,Benedict Schofield
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789627312

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Transnational German Studies by Rebecca Braun,Benedict Schofield Pdf

This volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities underpinning German-language culture and history as these travel right around the globe. Contributions discuss the inherent cross-pollination of different languages, times, places and notions of identity within German-language cultures and the ways in which their construction and circulation cannot be contained by national or linguistic borders. In doing so, it is not the aim of the volume to provide a compendium of existing transnational approaches to German Studies or to offer its readers a series of survey chapters on different fields of study to date. Instead, it offers novel research-led chapters that pose a question, a problem or an issue through which contemporary and historical transcultural and transnational processes can be seen at work. Accordingly, each essay isolates a specific area of study and opens it up for exploration, providing readers, especially student readers, not just with examples of transnational phenomena in German language cultures but also with models of how research in these areas can be configured and pursued. Contributors: Angus Nicholls, Anne Fuchs, Benedict Schofield, Birgit Lang, Charlotte Ryland, Claire Baldwin, Dirk Weissmann, Elizabeth Anderson, James Hodkinson, Nicholas Baer, Paulo Soethe, Rebecca Braun, Sara Jones, Sebastian Heiduschke, Stuart Taberner and Ulrike Draesner.

The Transnational in Literary Studies

Kai Wiegandt
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Author : Kai Wiegandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110688726

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The Transnational in Literary Studies by Kai Wiegandt Pdf

This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture

Corina Stan,Charlotte Sussman
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Author : Corina Stan,Charlotte Sussman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031307843

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The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture by Corina Stan,Charlotte Sussman Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. With essays on literature, film, drama, graphic novels, and more, the book addresses migration and media, hostile environments, migration and language, migration and literary experiment, migration as palimpsest, and figurations of the migrant. Each section is introduced by one of the handbook’s contributing editors and interviews with writers and film directors are integrated throughout the volume. The essays collected in the volume move beyond the discourse of the “refugee crisis” to trace the historical roots of the current migration situation through colonialism and decolonization.

Questioning the Canon

Christine Meyer
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Author : Christine Meyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110674392

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Questioning the Canon by Christine Meyer Pdf

To what extent do minority writers feel represented by the literary canon of a nation and its body of "great works"? To what extent do they adhere to, or contest, the supposedly universal values conveyed through those texts and how do they situate their own works within the national tradition? Building on Edward W. Said’s contrapuntal readings and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s reflections on the voice of the subaltern, this monograph examines the ways in which Rafik Schami, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and Feridun Zaimoglu have re-read, challenged, and adapted the German canon. Similar to other writers in postcolonial contexts, their work on the canon entails an inquiry into history and a negotiation of their relation to the texts and representations that define the "host" nation. Through close analyses of the works of these non-native German authors, the book investigates the intersection between politics, ethics, and aesthetics in their work, focusing on the appropriation and re-evaluation of cultural legacies in German-language literature. Opening up a rich critical dialogue with scholars of German Studies and Postcolonial Theory, Christine Meyer provides a fresh perspective on German-language minority literature since the reunification.

Transnational Spaces: Celebrating Fifty Years of Literary and Cultural Intersections at NeMLA

Carine Mardorossian,Simona Wright
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Author : Carine Mardorossian,Simona Wright
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648896118

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Transnational Spaces: Celebrating Fifty Years of Literary and Cultural Intersections at NeMLA by Carine Mardorossian,Simona Wright Pdf

This volume celebrates fifty years of NeMLA’s important presence in the world of academia with a collection of essays that adopt a transnational critical lens. With the present selection, we intend to add our voices to the ongoing debate centered on the renegotiation of space, national, and cultural geographies; to foster both the re-thinking of language(s) and literature(s) not exclusively in English and the study of race, gender, sexuality, and class within and across national boundaries. Most pertinently for this collection, we hope to add meaningful material to produce new theoretical paradigms and to rethink the role and significance of the humanities in today’s world. In this light, 'Transnational Spaces: Celebrating Fifty Years of Literary, Cultural, and Language Intersections at NeMLA' offers a contribution to the study of our present, transnational condition, from the point of view of an organization, the 'Northeast Modern Language Association', that since its inception in 1969, has sought to provide a space of encounter, debate, and open intellectual exchange for all its members as well as for the academe at large. The essays contained in this volume emphasize the interdependency and interrelations engendered by the globalized world in which we live, highlighting the possibility to create new knowledge and forms of understanding across the boundaries of nationhood and region. At the same time, they remind us that the present situation calls for a radical self-examination of a history of systemic racism which continues to produce episodes of police brutality, rationalizes cultural and economic exclusion, and normalizes the incarceration of African Americans and “illegal” immigrants, including children and minorities. In this light, with this volume, we hope to have provided inclusive, egalitarian, and cosmopolitan spaces of encounter, exchange, and interrogation.

Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature

Jessica Ortner
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Author : Jessica Ortner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140226

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Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature by Jessica Ortner Pdf

Examines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag.

Crossing Central Europe

Helga Mitterbauer,Carrie Smith-Prei
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Author : Helga Mitterbauer,Carrie Smith-Prei
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442649149

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Crossing Central Europe by Helga Mitterbauer,Carrie Smith-Prei Pdf

This volume studies elements of Austro-Hungarian or Central European culture that were common across linguistic, national, and ethnic communities, and shows how some of these commonalities survived or were transformed by the turmoil of the 20th century: two world wars, a major depression between the wars, Stalinism and the Iron Curtain

Modern Germany

Wendell G. Johnson,Katharina Barbe
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Author : Wendell G. Johnson,Katharina Barbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216118558

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Modern Germany by Wendell G. Johnson,Katharina Barbe Pdf

Modern Germany explores life, society, and history in this comprehensive thematic encyclopedia, spanning such topics as geography, pop culture, the media, and gender. Germany and its capital, Berlin, were the fulcrum of geopolitics in the twentieth century. After the Second World War, Germany was a divided nation. Many German citizens were born and educated and continued to work in eastern Germany (the former German Democratic Republic). This title in the Understanding Modern Nations series seeks to explain contemporary life and traditional culture through thematic encyclopedic entries. Themes in the book cover geography; history; politics and government; economy; religion and thought; social classes and ethnicity; gender, marriage, and sexuality; education; language; etiquette; literature and drama; art and architecture; music and dance; food; leisure and sports; and media and pop culture. Within each theme, short topical entries cover a wide array of key concepts and ideas, from LGBTQ issues in Germany to linguistic dialects to the ever-famous Oktoberfest. Geared specifically toward high school and undergraduate German students, readers interested in history and travel will find this book accessible and engaging.

Imagining Ecuador

LuisA. Medina Cordova
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Author : LuisA. Medina Cordova
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781855663589

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Imagining Ecuador by LuisA. Medina Cordova Pdf

Winner of the 2020-21 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize In March 1999, in an effort to stave off financial collapse, the Ecuadorian government suspended all banking operations and froze all bank accounts in the country for a period of five days. This episode, the Feriado Bancario, represents the peak of the worst financial crisis in the nation's history and one which had far-reaching and long-last effects on society, politics, the economy, and cultural production. The very idea of 'Ecuador' was transformed, as Ecuador became a country marked by constant interaction with the world beyond its borders. This book explores how contemporary Ecuadorian authors are reimagining the nation following the Feriado Bancario. Starting from a rereading of Ecuador's national novel, Jorge Icaza's Huasipungo (1930), which saw the nation as rooted in the land, the book examines post-crisis fiction which offers an image of Ecuador as a transnational space. It posits that these novels - Eliécer Cárdenas' El oscuro final del Porvenir (2000), Leonardo Valencia's Kazbek (2008), Carlos Arcos' Memorias de Andrés Chiliquinga (2013), and Gabriela Alemán's Humo (2017) - both reflect and explain the new reality of Ecuador as a nation that can no longer be defined by its territory. At the same time, the book uses the Ecuadorian case to challenge the conceptualisation of Latin American literature as 'post-national' and to show how countries on the periphery of the global literary market can, from the very fact of their minoritarian position, enrich and better define World Literature.