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Forces of Nature
In Forces of Nature, the authors investigate the relationships between the natural world and gender and sexuality. The authors explore the frameworks within which femininity and nature have been constructed, as well as the impact nature has had on our understandings of masculinity, homosexuality, and heterosexuality. For some writers nature has restorative powers, for others nature embodies violence and destruction. Yet, one common thread runs across all of the chapters in this collection: nature and animals can not be separated from the human experience. Forces of Nature brings to light the intimate connection humans have with the natural world and provides students and scholars with innovative readings of both canonical and noncanonical texts.
The Aesthetics of Island Space
This volume studies the spatial poetics of islands as depicted in literature, the journals of explorers and scientists, and in film. It shows how voyages of discovery posed challenges to the experience of space and how such challenges were negotiated via poetic engagement with islands.
On Verbal / Visual Representation
The twenty-one essays collected in this volume offer a broad range of critical views on the intricate interdependence between verbal and visual representation. Drawing on recent research, scholars from Europe, America and Asia approach the topic from a host of different angles, exploring topics such as popular visual cultures in Japan, devotional graffiti in a Piedmontese chapel, textual trompe-l’oeil in Jaques Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind or the relationship between the landscape paintings of Albert Bierstadt and the representation of landscape in the texts of James Fenimore Cooper. The International Association of Word and Image Studies was founded nearly twenty years ago – 1987 – and is based in Amsterdam. One of the aims of the association is to be a forum for both theoretical debate and innovative research in different disciplines. Over the years, the IAWIS triennial conferences and the IAWIS publications have established themselves as internationally acknowledged sites where literary critics, art historians, architects, art and design specialists, semioticians, artists, psychologists and art critics can meet and engage in a sustained dialogue.
Wounds and Words
Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists influenced each others' investigations of the »wounded mind«. This book looks back to these early attempts to understand trauma, reading a selection of Romantic novels in dialogue with Romantic and contemporary psychiatry. It then carries that dialogue forward to postmodern fiction, examining further how empirical approaches can deepen our theorizations of trauma. Within an interdisciplinary framework, this study reveals fresh insights into the poetics, politics, and ethics of trauma fiction.
Gender Innovation and Migration in Switzerland
This open access book analyses migration and its relation to socio-political transformation in Switzerland. It addresses how migration has made new forms of life possible and shows how this process generated gender innovation in different fields: the changing division of work, the establishment of a nursery infrastructure, access to higher education for women, and the struggle for female suffrage. Seeing society through the lens of migration alters the perspective from which our past and thus our present is told—and our future imagined.
Fear of Muslims?
This book takes a sober, evidenced-based look at the contemporary phenomenon of Islamophobia in both ‘old-world’ Europe, and the ‘new-world’ of America and Australia, and Southeast Asia. It includes theoretical and conceptual discussions about what Islamophobia is, how it manifests, and how it can be addressed, together with historical analysis, applied research and case-study chapters, considering the reality that manifests as a fear of Muslims. Anxiety about the world’s second largest religion manifests as prejudice, discrimination and vilification and, in extreme cases, violence and murder. The real and perceived problems of the relationship between Islam and the West contribute...
Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction
The American suburb is a space dominated by architectural mass production, sprawl, as well as a monotonous aesthetic eclecticism, and many critics argue that it has developed from a postwar utopia into a disorienting environment with which it is difficult to identify. The typical suburb has come to display characteristics of an atopia, that is, a space without borders or even a non-place, a generic space of transience. Dealing with the representation of architecture and the built environment in suburban literature and film from the 1920s until present, this study demonstrates that in its fictional representations, too, suburbia has largely turned into a place of non-architecture. A lack of architectural ethos and an abundance of "Junkspace" define suburban narratives, causing an increasing sense of disorientation and entropy in fictional characters.
Bernsteingrab
Verdrängte Geschichte kehrt zurück - als tödlicher Spuk Nach dem Mauerfall will der Fotograf Timo Prohn, Nachfahr eines märkischen Adelsclans, das verfallene Familienschloss an der Oder wieder in Besitz nehmen. Doch bald schon kommt es zu verstörenden Zwischenfällen. Ein junger Pole wird ermordet, Timos Frau Lisa wird entführt, Margot Wegener, eine junge Frau von hexenhaftem Gebaren, raubt ihm den Verstand - und eine ominöse Bernsteinskulptur. Ein verwirrendes Spiel beginnt, in dem es um chiffrierte Aufzeichnungen und eine Serie von Bernsteinstatuetten geht, die allesamt einen Wolf und einen Jüngling darstellen. Auf der Suche nach einer Erklärung stößt Timo auf ein finsteres Geheimnis ... Ein literarischer Thriller, in dem es um deutsche Geschichte und Identität im ganz großen Bogen geht - von der Erbsünde der Preußen über die 'schwarze Romantik' und das 'Dritte Reich' bis zur Wiedervereinigung. "Sinnlich, mysteriös, grausam und bis zur letzten Zeile fesselnd." (Gisbert Haefs über "Die Maya-Priesterin") "Ein teuflisch guter Roman." (histo-couch.de über "Faust, der Magier") "Ein sagenhaft spannender Thriller." ("Berliner Morgenpost" über "Wolfswut")
