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The Right to Difference
Develops a theory of intercultural literature to reconcile diversity with traditional notions of German identity
From Fin-de-siècle to Theresienstadt
Original Scholarly Monograph
Border Poetics in German and Polish Literature
Examines how contemporary German and Polish novels reimagine borderlands as cosmopolitan spaces by engaging in border poetics, a narrative practice that relates political borders to figurative boundaries.Globalization notwithstanding, we live in an age of borders, as the ongoing conflict at Europe's eastern edge reminds us. Borders are meant to protect, but they more often divide and exclude. This book, however, focuses on literature that pushes back against the divisiveness of borders, advocating for transborder connections and criticizing exclusionary boundaries. It examines novels that reimagine past and present German-Polish borderlands as cosmopolitan spaces. Novels by Nobel Prize winne...
Heimat, Space, Narrative
Explores how contemporary novels dealing with flight and expulsion after the Second World War unsettle traditional notions of Heimat without abandoning place-based notions of belonging. At the end of the Second World War, millions of Germans and Poles fled or were expelled from the border regions of what had been their countries. This monograph examines how, in Cold War and post-Cold War Europe since the 1970s, writers have responded to memories or postmemories of this traumatic displacement. Friederike Eigler engages with important currents in scholarship -- on "Heimat," the much-debated German concept of "homeland"; on the spatial turnin literary studies; and on German-Polish relations -- ...
The Lost German East
After 1945, Germany was inundated with ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe. Andrew Demshuk explores why they integrated into West German society.
Rereading Schleiermacher: Translation, Cognition and Culture
This book celebrates the bicentenary of Schleiermacher’s famous Berlin conference "On the Different Methods of Translating" (1813). It is the product of an international Call for Papers that welcomed scholars from many international universities, inviting them to discuss and illuminate the theoretical and practical reception of a text that is not only arguably canonical for the history and theory of translation, but which has moreover never ceased to be present both in theoretical and applied Translation Studies and remains a mandatory part of translator training. A further reason for initiating this project was the fact that the German philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, though often cited in Translation Studies up to the present day, was never studied in terms of his real impact on different domains of translation, literature and culture.
Tadeusz Różewicz and Modern Identity in Poland since the Second World War
As Andrzej Mencwel observed, “as a result of fundamental historical changes” the need arises for “restructuring of the whole present memory and tradition system” (Rodzinna Europa po raz pierwszy). Changes of such significance took place in Poland during the Second World War and several following decades. Collective experience of that time was made up of – apart from political antagonisms – social and cultural phenomena such as change of elites, reinterpretation of their grand narratives (or symbolic world), the ultimate inclusion of the masses into the national project based on the post-gentry tradition and national history, the intensive development of urban lifestyle and the ex...
Gedächtnis und kultureller Wandel
Die Diskussion über die Historizität und Kulturalität von Sprache und Literatur hat das Interesse der Germanistik verstärkt auf die anthropologischen, biologischen und erkenntnistheoretischen Voraussetzungen gerichtet, unter denen die Rede von der Entstehung eines individuellen und kollektiven Gedächtnisses unter Differenzierung von Fremdem und Eigenem erst sinnvoll ist. Der Deutsche Germanistentag 2007 in Marburg hat sich ausführlich mit dieser Thematik in einer Reihe von Vorträgen befasst, die im vorliegenden Band publiziert werden. Exemplarisch untersuchen die Beiträge die komplexen Prozesse literarischer Gedächtnisbildung und -reflexion in synchroner wie in diachroner Perspektive. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' und 'Erinnerungsarbeit' bei prominenten Autoren wie Günter Grass, Botho Strauß oder Arno Schmidt. Unter Einbeziehung der Ergebnisse der Xenologie, der Kognitionswissenschaft und der konstruktivistischen Gedächtnisforschung wird zugleich versucht, die Bedingungen für sprachlichen, literarischen und kulturellen Wandel zu erfassen.
