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Approaches to a “new" World Literature
The history of written Romani literature is only about 100 years old, and thus Romani literatures are still being defined and consolidated. At least two special features characterize this young literature: on the one hand, it is a multilingual diasporic world literature that often can be characterized as engaged literature and tries to deconstruct various age-old stereotypes of the minority. On the other hand, female authors play a strikingly prominent role. Female authors frequently achieve visibility with their texts on the national book markets. Some authors appear in their own texts as committed feminists and/or human rights activists. For other authors, sexuality and gender play a less ...
Der Vampir
Der Vampirmythos findet in der Populärkultur als Blutsauger und Übermensch Resonanz. Es geht um die rätselhafte Frage des Übergangs der Toten ins Jenseits, das Spannungsfeld von Eros und Thanatos. Seit mehr als 200 Jahren nach der Veröffentlichung von John Polidoris "The Vampyre. A Tale" (1819) ist der Vampir Bestandteil der europäischen Literaturen. Als liminale Figur konnotiert er Invasion und ist damit eng mit der Abwehr des (fremden) Anderen assoziiert; als ambivalente Figur signifiziert der Vampir faszinosum und tremendum, steht für Kulturkontakt und Abgrenzung gleichermaßen. Der Vampir fungiert seit der Aufklärung selbst als Reflexionsfigur unterschiedlicher Wissenskulturen un...
Lifelines of Our Society
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives. Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why are they all in such bad shape? In Lifelines of Our Society, Dirk van Laak offers broad audiences a history of global infrastructures—focused on Western societies, over the past two hundred years—that considers all their many paradoxes. He illustrates three aspects of infrastructure: their de...
Music, Longing and Belonging
With contributions from musicologists, historians, sociologists, anthropologists and literary scholars, this book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on how different modes of musical sociability - ranging from opera performances to collective singing and internet fan communities - inspire ""imagined communities"" that not only transcend national borders, but also challenge the boundaries between the self and the other. While the relationship between music and nationhood has been widely r...
Post-wall German Cinema and National History
Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's immediate past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. The cold-war division, the failed socialist state, the '68 student movement, and the Red Army Faction -- historical flashpoints involving political oppression, civil disobedience, and the longing for utopian solutions to social injustice -- have come to be seen as decisive moments in a collective history that unites East and West even as it divides them. Telling stories about a shared past, establishing foundational myths, and finding commonalities of experience are pivotal steps in the construction of national identity. Such nation-building ...
Practical Approaches to Teaching Film
Rachel Ritterbusch’s Practical Approaches to Teaching Film is a collection of essays focusing on the use of film in settings ranging from an introductory film class to an upper-division Women’s Studies course. Drawing on their experience in the classroom, contributors to this anthology show how movies can be used to promote critical thinking, create an awareness of the male gaze, challenge dominant ideology, and unmask the constructedness of film. This volume treats a wide variety of film texts, from box-office hits like The Da Vinci Code to underappreciated art films such as Susan Streitfeld’s Female Perversions; from Pépé le Moko and other French classics to more contemporary francophone works like Chaos and Rosetta; from self-reflexive films that interrogate the act of filmmaking itself to those that draw attention to the phallocentric nature of cinematic apparatus. Common to all these essays is the belief that, if used judiciously, film can be a valuable pedagogical tool. Aimed both at those currently teaching film and those wishing to do so, this volume provides practical support in the form of sample syllabi, assignments, and a glossary of film terms.
French XX Bibliography
Provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema. This book is for the study of French literature and culture.
Purging the Empire
This work addresses the mass expulsion of Germany's unwanted residents, including socialists, Jesuits, Danes, colonial subjects, French nationalists, Poles, and 'Gypsies', between 1871 and 1914.
Ästhetik(en) der Roma
Lange Zeit wurde Literatur von Roma gar nicht oder wenn nach stereotypen Bewertungsmustern betrachtet. Der Band setzt es sich zum Ziel, die Literaturen der Roma erstmals einer genauen ästhetischen Betrachtung zu unterziehen und zu fragen, welche gemeinsamen Tendenzen beobachtet werden können. Viele Werke von Roma weisen einen performativen und/ oder hybriden Charakter auf. Die Präferenz für performative Erzählformen kann auf die lang gepflegten Traditionen der oralen Literatur (Legenden, Märchen, Magie) sowie des oral history-building (orale Weitergabe des kollektiven Gedächtnisses, von Gründungs- Herkunftsmythen sowie von Lebenserfahrungen zu Erhalt und Stärkung der GruppenidentitÃ...
Aux frontières: Roma als Grenzgängerfiguren der Moderne
Schon lange vor dem Zeitalter der Nationalismen im 19. Jahrhundert, trotz der Verfolgungen, Unterdrückungen und des Holocaust (Porajmos) im 20. Jahrhundert, repräsentieren Roma von Grenzüberschreitungen geprägte Kulturen, die immer wieder auch in der Literatur, in der bildenden Kunst und im Film dargestellt wurden. Besonders im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert kommen Eigenrepräsentationen selbst vermehrt zur textuellen und medialen Darstellung. Der Band setzt sich zum Ziel, den vielfältigen Facetten der Darstellung der Roma ("Tsiganes", "Bohémiens", "Sinté", "Manouches", "Yéniches", "Gitans' etc.) nachzugehen, deren Lebensweise sich geschichtlich durch grenzüberschreitende Bewegung und Gren...
