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An den Rändern der Literatur. Dokument und Literatur in zentraleuropäischen Kulturen
Die Integration der Dokumente wird als eine Geste der Spaltung betrachtet, die das Zusammenspiel der faktischen und fiktionalen Wahrheitsbehauptungen in literarischen Texten hervorhebt (Riffaterre, 1990). Dadurch kommen der dokumentarische Anspruch auf Glaubwürdigkeit und die Literarizität des Textes in Widerspruch. Daher ist die erste Prämisse des Bandes die Auswirkung des dokumentarischen Paktes (Foley, 1986) auf die Bestimmung der Literatur. Die betonte Referenzfunktion der Dokumentarliteratur führt zum ständigen Überschreiten der Grenze zwischen Fakt und Fiktion, wobei sich diese Grenze als instabil erweist und die Realität transfiguriert (A. Danto). Um die unterschiedlichen Auspr...
Racer Girls
Racer Danica Patrick took the world by storm in the 2005 Indianapolis 500. However, she is not alone in the ranks of well-known, talented female racers. Discover more about these high-speed athletes in Racer Girls, a Girls Rock! book.
Narrated Empires
This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in 1918. During this period, both empires struggled against a rising tide of nationalism to legitimise their own diversity of ethnicities, languages and religions. Contributors scrutinise the various narratives of identity that they developed, supported, encouraged or unwittingly created and left behind for posterity as they tried to keep up with the changing political realities of modernity. Beyond simplified noti...
Speed Queens
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The Architecture of Modern Culture
These collected essays contain fundamental contributions to contemporary cultural analysis and theory as well as exemplary interpretations of film, literature and other media. Central issues of current cultural studies are addressed: cultural narratives, cultural identity, collective memory and post-colonial thinking. The oeuvre of cultural and literary critic Wolfgang Müller-Funk encompasses historic analyses such as readings of Broch, Canetti and Musil, and the heritage they passed on. Other essays move from the beginning of the 20th to the 21st century and address questions of space, time and globalization discussing, for example, Walter Benjamin and 9/11.
Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe
The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy. Southeastern Europe is characterized by a high degree of ethnical, religious and cultural diversity. Jews, whether Sephardim, Ashkenazim or Romaniots – settling there in different periods – experienced divergent life worlds which engendered rich cultural production. Though recent scholarly and popular interest in this heterogeneous region has grown impressively, Jewish cultural production is still an under-researched area. The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy, thus creating a dialogue between Jewish studies, Balkan studies, and current literary and cultural theories.
Latina Magazine
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Kwani?
Following and keeping close to the great tradition set by its three predecessors, Kwani? 4 presents a wail of new voices in literary concert with the not so new. The now established talents- Binyavanga Wainaina, Muthoni Garland, Doreen Baingana- share these pages with the fast risers: Billy Kahora, Mukoma wa Ngugi and Shalini Gidoomal. And Kwani? 4 has delved deeper into the all those spaces where the Kenyan story lives: the street corners, the neighbourhood pubs, the in-between semi rural places where the clash of cultures- the traditional versus the modern- continues to redefine the social roles of the individual, dismantle patriarchal constructs and still retain the pithy wit and the devi...
Traumata der Transition
Der Sammelband publiziert die Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Konferenz, die im April 2013 den Untergang Jugoslawiens zum Thema hatte. GeisteswissenschaftlerInnen, welche einerseits biographisch in die postjugoslawischen Kriege involviert sind, andererseits sich schon bald über zwei Jahrzehnte mit spezifischen theoretischen Modellen und wissenschaftlichem Anspruch mit der jugoslawischen Problematik auseinandergesetzt haben, fokussieren aus ihrer jeweils spezifischen theoretischen Warte die Ereignisse und deren problematische Diskursivierung. Dabei stehen diskurs-, feld und systemtheoretische, aber auch raumnarratologische, bildkritische und historiographische Ansätze im Vordergrund.
