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On Migration
This volume is based on the section “Transnationalities – Transidentities – Hybridities – Diasporization”, organized by the Ibero-American and Francophone Research Centres of the University of Leipzig as part of the First Annual Conference of the Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig. By now, already a decade has passed since our conference section took place and it is due to various circumstances that this volume has not been published earlier. It carries along, in some sense, its own migration trace. Nevertheless, the questions examined in the contributions have reached even more relevance since then in both, the Old World and the New, due to the various political,...
Discourses on Nations and Identities
The third volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress "The Many Languages of Comparative Literature" includes contributions that focus on the interplay between concepts of nation, national languages, and individual as well as collective identities. Because all literary communication happens within different kinds of power structures - linguistic, economic, political -, it often results in fascinating forms of hybridity. In the first of four thematic chapters, the papers investigate some of the ways in which discourses can establish modes of thinking, or how discourses are in turn controlled by active linguistic interventions, whether in the context of the patriarchy, war, colonialism...
Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction
Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importanc...
Abdelkébir Khatibi
Abdelkébir Khatibi is one of the most important voices to emerge from North Africa in postcolonial studies. This book is the first to offer a thoroughgoing analysis in English of all aspects of his multifaceted thought, as it ranges from Moroccan politics to Arabic calligraphy, and from decolonisation to interculturality.
Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature
This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City. It analyzes how underground spaces such as the subway, the sewage system, tunnels, crypts, and the subsoil itself relate to the whole of the city in a body of works published after 1985, the year of the deadliest earthquake in the capital’s history. The texts belong to the most important genres in urban literature (the novel, the short story, and the crónica) and demonstrate the crucial role played by the underground in contemporary imaginings of the megalopolis, as it condenses and confronts the tensions that run through them. This central idea is developed through four analytical chapters focusing on the political, ecological, historical, and aesthetic dimension of subterranean imaginaries.
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789–1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland’s ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies – i...
The World in Movement
This book focuses on one of the main issues of our time in the Humanities and Social Sciences as it analyzes the impact of current global migrations on new forms of living together and the formation of identities and homes. Using a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach the contributions shed fresh light upon key concepts such as ‘hybrid-performative diaspora’, ‘transidentities’,‘ hospitality’, ‘belonging’, ‘emotion’, ‘body,’ and ‘desire’. Those concepts are discussed in the context of Cuban, US-American, Maghrebian, Moroccan, Spanish, Catalan, French, Turkish, Jewish, Argentinian, Indian, and Italian literatures, cultures and religions.
Schlüsselwerke der Postcolonial Studies
Postkoloniale Studien setzen sich kritisch mit kolonialen Gesellschaftsstrukturen und Repräsentationen von Andersheit bzw. Eigenem auseinander, die sich bis in die Gegenwart fortschreiben. Für das Selbstverständnis der ‚westlichen Gesellschaften‘ so zentrale Unterscheidungen wie Tradition/Moderne, Orient/Okzident, Natur/Kultur, Eigenes/Fremdes etc. stehen dabei zur Disposition. Der Band veranschaulicht die Vielstimmigkeit des postkolonialen Diskurses, indem er einerseits einen orientierenden Überblick über die zentralen Werke und AutorInnen der Postcolonial Studies, wie etwa Edward W. Said, Homi K. Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Stuart Hall oder bell hooks, und ihre ideengeschichtlichen Referenzen verschafft. Andererseits wird die Rezeptionsgeschichte postkolonialer Perspektiven in geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen nachgezeichnet: u.a. in Literatur-, Politik-, Medien-, Religionswissenschaft, Ethnologie, Soziologie oder auch Kunstgeschichte. Der Band versteht sich nicht nur als Nachschlagewerk für Studierende und Interessierte; er leistet auch einen eigenen Beitrag zur Theoriebildung.
Zur Aktualität von Homi K. Bhabha
„Dritter Raum“, „Hybridität“, „Mimikry“ oder „Übersetzung“: Homi K. Bhabha, einer der einflussreichsten und innovativsten postkolonialen Theoretiker der Gegenwart, prägt in seinen Untersuchungen ebenso schillernde wie voraussetzungsreiche Metaphern für ein neues Denken von Kulturkontakt und kulturellen Mischungen. Seine hochtheoretisierten Reflexionen speisen sich dabei aus Theorie und Kunst: Einerseits verortet Bhabha sein Denken in der postkolonialen, poststrukturalistischen Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, andererseits lässt er sich von literarischen und künstlerischen Artefakten inspirieren und gewinnt aus ihnen neue Bilder, die die aktuelle Situation der globalen Migration jenseits von kultureliminierender Assimilation oder kulturrelativistischer Multikulturalität neu zu denken erlauben. Bhabha verfolgt damit eine konsequente Dekonstruktion kultureller Dichotomien und entwickelt neue Denkfiguren für komplexe kulturelle Begegnungen.
