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Cultures of Lying
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Splendide Mendax
Scholars for centuries have regarded fakes and forgeries chiefly as an opportunity for exposing and denouncing deceit, rather than appreciating the creative activity necessary for such textual imposture. But should we not be more curious about what is spurious? Many of these long-neglected texts merit serious reappraisal, when considered as artifacts with a value beyond mere authenticity. We do not have to be fooled by a forgery to find it fascinating, when even the intention to deceive can remind us how easy it is to form beliefs about texts. The greater difficulty is that once beliefs have been formed by one text, it is impossible to approach the next without preconceptions potentially dis...
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,...
Pandemic Protagonists
During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.
Sites of Disquiet
Some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, and García Márquez, have explored ambiguous sites of a disquieting nature. Their characters face merging perspectives, deferral, darkness, or emptiness. Such a space is neither a site of projection (as utopia or dystopia) nor a neutral setting (as the topos). For the characters, it is real and active, at once elusive and transforming. Despite the challenges of visualizing such slippery spaces, filmic experimentations in Spanish American cinema since the 1960s have sought to adapt these texts to the screen. Ilka Kressner's Sites of Disquiet examines these representations of alternative dimension...
Islam and Postcolonial Narrative
In Islam and Postcolonial Narrative, John Erickson examines four major authors from the 'third world'.
Words and Images on the Screen
The screen has never been merely a canvas for the images to be displayed but also – to quote Jean-Luc Godard – “a blank page”, a surface for inscriptions and a “stage” for all kinds of linguistic occurrences be their audible or visual. Word did not come into the world of cinema at the time of the talkies but has been a primordial medial “companion” that has shaped the cinematic experience from its very beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in the context of moving pictures covering a wide area of their interconnectedness. How can we analyse literary adaptations? What is the role of adaptations in the evolution of spec...
Otro maldito homenaje ...
Otro maldito homenaje ... sollte eigentlich keine Festgabe heißen dürfen, die einen verdienten Romanisten aus Anlass seines bevorstehenden Ruhestands ehren will. Es sei denn, der Geehrte hat sich Zeit seines Forscherlebens und Professorendaseins als erklärter Festschriftenskeptiker zu erkennen gegeben. Da bot es sich dann an, diese etwas andere, vielleicht sogar subversive Festschrift mit dem abgewandelten Titel eines spanischen Romans zu überschreiben, den Jochen Mecke nur allzu gerne zitiert. Inhaltlich folgen die Beiträge dieser Ehrung selbstverständlich den Spuren des Geehrten und handeln über die Themenbereiche, die ihn über Jahrzehnte hinweg in besonderer Weise beschäftigt haben: Zeit, Raum und Medien. Sie tut es jedoch würzig kurz und, was ihre eigenen Formen und Gattungen angeht, in jeglicher Weise kreativ. Befreit von den Fesseln der unbedingten, aber eben manchmal doch etwas langweiligen Wissenschaftlichkeit, bieten sie eine vergnügliche Mischung aus fast Ernstem und hintergründig Unernstem, in der auch Persönliches und zweckfrei Literarisches einen Platz haben dürfen.
Postcolonial Modernism and the Picaresque Novel
This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the bildungsroman, is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures. This study considers the picaresque novel’s traditional focus on poverty and deprivation, and argues that its postcolonial versions urge us to conceive of as a more wide-ranging sense of precarity and precariousness. Non-linear biography, episodic style, protean identities, unreliable narratives, and abject landscapes are the social and formal aspects through which this precarity is thematized and performed. A concise analysis of these concepts and phenomena in the picaresque provide...
