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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 ...
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...
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.
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 ...
Purging the Empire
While the fate of minorities under Nazism is well known, the earlier expulsions of Germany's unwanted residents are less well understood. Against a backdrop of raging public debate, and numerous claims of a 'state of exception', tens of thousands of vulnerable people living in the German Empire were the victims of mass expulsion orders between 1871 and 1914. Groups as diverse as Socialists, Jesuits, Danes, colonial subjects, French nationalists, Poles, and 'Gypsies' were all removed, under circumstances that varied from police actions undertaken by provincial governors through to laws authorising removals passed by the Reichstag. Purging the Empire examines the competing voices demanding the...
The Connectivity of Things
A media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into English. Nets hold, connect, and catch. They ensnare, bind, and entangle. Our social networks owe their name to a conceivably strange and ambivalent object. But how did the net get into the network? And how can it reasonably represent the connectedness of people, things, institutions, signs, infrastructures, and even nature? The Connectivity of Things by Sebastian Giessmann, the first media history that addresses the overwhelming diversity of networks, attempts to answer all these questions and more. Reconstructing the decisive moments in which networking ...
The Vampire
Even before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally emerged from folk traditions from all over the world—became so strongly identified with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the modern conception of the vampire was born in the crucible of the Enlightenment, embodying a mysterious, Eastern otherness that stood opposed to Western rationality. From the Prologue: From Original Sin to Eternal Life For a broad...
Untersuchung über die Konsequenzen des Ehebruchs in Choderlos de Laclos "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" - in Bezugnahme auf die Opfer- und Täterrollen
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universit t Duisburg-Essen (Fachbereich Geisteswissenschaften; Germanistik), Veranstaltung: High Infidelity - Ehebruch Literarisch, 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Seminararbeit werde ich die Folgen des Ehebruchs in den Liaisons dangereuses, im Frankreich des 18. Jahrhunderts untersuchen. Als Basis dieser Untersuchung liegt der Arbeit der Roman les liaisons dangereuses von Choderlos de Laclos, in deutscher bersetzung vor. Dabei werde ich mich nur auf den Roman beziehen, obwohl es viele Filmadaptionen gibt. Ich versuche zu kl ren, ob nicht gerade die Opf...
Literarisierung der Gesellschaft im Wandel
Die Beiträge des Bandes fokussieren das Thema Gesellschaftswandel aus unterschiedlichen Forschungsperspektiven. Die AutorInnen verweisen dabei auf Phänomene, Trends und Kontexte der gegenwärtigen Wandlungsprozesse (Erinnerungskulturen, Migration, Familie) und neue Modi ihrer literarischen Umsetzung. Die auf Paradigmenwechsel und narrative Sonderformen rekurrierende literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Reflexion prägt die Analysen der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsromane von Lilly Axster, Sibylle Berg, Maxim Biller, Christine Fehér, Karen-Susan Fessel, Inger-Maria Mahlke, Anna Mitgutsch, Martin Pollack, Julya Rabinowich, Ilse Sarecka, Norbert Scheuer, Bettina Spoerri, Wolfgang Sréter, O...
