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Cultural Transfer Reconsidered
Examining the cultural dynamics of translation and transfer, Cultural Transfer Reconsideredproposes new insights into both epistemological and analytical questions. With its focus on the North, the book opens perspectives mainly implying textual, intertextual and artistic practices and postcolonial interrelatedness.
Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture
Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history. This interdisciplinary study explores the dynamic relationship between attention and its supposed opposite, distraction, as it unfolds from the eighteenth century to the present day. Its primary focus is on twentieth-century Germany and Austria, where matters of (in)attention gained a unique urgency during a period of social change and political crisis. Building on Enlightenment practices of self-observation, nineteenth-century Germany was the birthplace of experimental psychology, a discipline which sought to measure and potentially enhance huma...
Literary Landscapes of Time
The volume asks how the literatures of the Americas and the Caribbean present multiple or internally differentiated spaces and how these are distinguished or traversed by different temporalities. The historical and (post)colonial experiences of these areas turns them into especially fertile ground for the exploration of the connections between landscape/geography and historical/temporal palimpsests as well as the specificities of literary form. The contributions are dedicated to individual, yet conceptually interconnected studies of staggered, multiple, non-simultaneous temporalities in modern and contemporary literature. The volume adopts a comparative perspective throughout and intends to ...
The Diplomatic Enlightenment
Eighteenth-century Spain drew on the Enlightenment to reconfigure its role in the European balance of power. As its force and its weight declined, Spanish thinkers discouraged war and zealotry and pursued peace and cooperation to reconfigure the international Spanish Empire.
Asymmetric Ecologies in Europe and South America around 1800
This volume proposes new ways of understanding the historical semantics of the relationship between humans and nature in South America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The authors in this volume use the notion of asymmetry to discuss the representations of and forms of knowledge about nature circulating in, and about, colonial and postcolonial South America. They argue that the production of knowledge about the American natural space widened the power gap between the Europeans colonizers and the local population. This gap, therefore, rests on what we call 'asymmetric ecologies': Eurocentric epistemic orders excluded forms of indigenous, mestizo, and Creole knowledge about nature. By looking at literary as well as non-literary sources, such as natural histories, travel narratives, encyclopaedias or medical writing, the essays in this volume trace the origins of new theoretical paradigms (ecocriticism, biopolitics, transarea studies, etc.), and examine the regional cultural, identity, and epistemic conflicts that undercut the Eurocentric narrative of enlightened modernity.
Comparing Literatures: Aspects, Method, and Orientation
Globalization is not a new phenomenon. Ideas have been circulating all over Europe (and the world) since ancient times, and intercultural dialog is a wide field offering a great variety of approaches. In such times as ours, when the world is swift to change and cultures are destined to meet (sometimes, alas, to clash), the place of literature, or broadly speaking: human and social sciences, within society is often questioned and needs redefining: From the reception studies of the 1970s and 1980s to the stress laid on intermedial and intercultural relations, not forgetting the work done on cultural transfers, this question opens up a wide field of theoretic, methodological, and aesthetic research, which is explored through this volume.
A Colonial Book Market
A social history of books in Spanish America which traces the reach of reading material in late colonial Peru.
Kannibalismus und Eucharistie
Eucharistie und Kannibalismus: So konträr ihre kulturelle Verortung auch scheinen mag, umso verstörender wirkten schon im 16. Jahrhundert die Analogien zwischen beiden Konzepten. Ist der 'wilde Kannibale' Amerikas nicht nur fleischgewordene Metapher für den 'kulturellen Kannibalismus' des Kolonialismus selbst, sondern auch eine Materialisierung anderer im frühneuzeitlichen Europa zirkulierender Diskurse des Verschlingens und Einverleibens? Anhand verschiedener Textbeispiele aus den romanischen Literaturen (französisch, spanisch, portugiesisch) des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts diskutieren zwölf Aufsätze dieses kompetitive Feld der Bedeutungszuschreibung von Einverleiben, Verkörpern und Ve...
Kreolisierung revisited
Kulturtheoretische Versuche, ein Zusammenleben in Frieden und Differenz programmatisch zu fassen, spielen im begonnenen 21. Jahrhundert eine entscheidende Rolle. Als aufschlussreich stellen sich hierbei die Konzepte der »Kreolisierung« und des »Tout-monde« des karibischen Romanciers Édouard Glissant oder die »Coolitude« des aus Mauritius stammenden Dichters Khal Torabully dar. Sie verweisen auf multiethnische Gesellschaften kolonialen Ursprungs und formulieren eine prominente - in Deutschland aber bislang kaum wahrgenommene - postkoloniale Kulturkritik der Globalisierung und Moderne. Die Beiträge in diesem Band, u.a. von Ottmar Ette, Françoise Vergès und Khal Torabully, prüfen die Anschlussfähigkeit von historischen und aktuellen Kreolisierungsprozessen für internationale und europäische Debatten.
Handbuch Literatur & Raum
Raum und Literatur sind untrennbar verbunden: Nicht nur gibt es Räume in der Literatur, sondern Literatur macht Raum, konstruiert Raum, ist selbst Raum. Im Gegensatz zu den bisher vorliegenden transdisziplinären Versuchen wissenschaftlicher Erfassung von Räumlichkeit geht das Handbuch Literatur & Raum synoptisch wie systematisch von spezifisch literaturwissenschaftlichen Überlegungen zur Räumlichkeit als seinem disziplinären Ausgangspunkt aus, um diese sodann hinsichtlich der spezifisch literarischen Leitkategorien 'Reflexivität' und 'Produktivität' zu erproben: Systematisch wird der Zusammenhang von Literatur und Raum dabei anhand von Modellen bzw. Theorien dargestellt, analytisch a...
