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Globalizing the Avant-Garde
How has the process of globalization shaped artistic practices on the one hand, and art history and theory on the other? The contributions in this volume approach this question from a range of perspectives, taking into account the role of travel, for example, or practitioners’ increasing knowledge of other cultures, art’s increasing awareness of itself as existing on a global level, literary translation, the advance of technology, and the ever-changing grand narratives of art history. As well as reflections on European avant-gardes and neo-avant-gardes, the collection features discussions of Japan, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. As a whole, the volume engages with broader current discourses about cultural globalization, and features input from leading scholars around the world as well as some important novel interventions by early-career researchers. The authors not only make a major contribution to the evolution of avant-garde studies, but also offer valuable, original points of view to art history and to the cultural theory of globalization more broadly.
Making German Jewish Literature Anew
In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anew is structured around a series of founding gestures: performing authorship, remaking memory, and claiming places. Garloff contends that these founding gestures are literary strategies that reestablish the very possibility of a German Jewish literatur...
Former Neighbors, Future Allies?
German studies scholars from various disciplines often use and reference ethnography, yet do not often present ethnography as a core methodology and research approach. Former Neighbors, Future Allies? emphasizes how German studies engages in methods and theories of ethnography. Through a variety of topics and from multiple perspectives including literature, folklore, history, sociology, and anthropology, this volume draws attention to how ethnography bridges transdisciplinary and international research in German studies.
Realisms of the Avant-Garde
The historical avant-gardes defined themselves largely in terms of their relationship to various versions of realism. At first glance modernism primarily seems to take a counter-position against realism, yet a closer investigation reveals that these relations are more complex. This book is dedicated to the links between realism, modernism and the avant-garde in their international context from the late 19th century up to the present day.
Film and Counterculture in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising
This book examines how film articulates countercultural flows in the context of the Egyptian Revolution. The book interrogates the gap between radical politics and radical aesthetics by analyzing counterculture as a form, drawing upon Egyptian films produced between 2010 and 2016. The work offers a definition of counterculture which liberates the term from its Western frame and establishes a theoretical concept of counterculture which is more globally redolent. The book opens a door for further research of the Arab Uprising, arguing for a new and topical model of rebellion and struggle, and sheds light on the interaction between cinema and the street as well as between cultural narratives and politics in the context of the 2011 Egyptian uprising. What is counterculture in the twenty-first century? What role does cinema play in this new notion of counterculture?
Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany
In the 1960s and 1970s in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), or West Germany, newspaper readers and television viewers were appalled by terrible images of fires burning half a world away. The Vietnam War was a decisive catalyst for the era’s wider protest movements and gave rise to an ardent anti-war discourse. This discourse privileged writing in many forms. Within it, poetry and poetic writing were key; and because coverage of the conflict in Vietnam often focused on spectacular, destructive conflagrations ignited by hi-tech machines of war, their dominant trope was fire. Hundreds of poems and related writings about Vietnam circulated in the FRG, yet they are almost entirely forgotte...
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. With essays on literature, film, drama, graphic novels, and more, the book addresses migration and media, hostile environments, migration and language, migration and literary experiment, migration as palimpsest, and figurations of the migrant. Each section is introduced by one of the handbook’s contributing editors and interviews with writers and film directors are integrated throughout the volume. The essays collected in the volume move beyond the discourse of the “refugee crisis” to trace the historical roots of the current migration situation through colonialism and decolonization.
The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies
This second edition of The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies offers a truly global and groundbreaking collection of essays addressing the key issues and debates shaping the field of digital journalism studies today. Journalism has arguably faced unprecedented disruption and reconceptualization since the first edition of this Companion was published. Questions over what role journalism and journalists play in society are pervasive, and changes to platforms, products, practices, and audiences are among the forces driving a new research agenda in the field. This newly reorganized second edition addresses developments in technologies, data infrastructures, algorithms, and the bus...
Essen
Essen ist nicht nur eine physiologische Notwendigkeit für alle Lebewesen, sondern integriert zudem fast alle Bereiche des sozialen und kulturellen Verstehens, Deutens und Handelns: Es ist anthropologische Konstante - und doch zugleich kulturell, sozial, ökonomisch, sogar politisch und nicht selten erotisch konnotiert. Essen (und damit auch Geschmack, Sitten, aber auch Magie und Ritual) bestimmt Prozesse der Inklusion und Exklusion, markiert Identität und überschreitet zugleich geographische, soziale und ethnische Grenzen. Die Beiträge des Heftes zeigen: Im Kontext der Globalisierung ist »Essen« seit einigen Jahren ein Feld genuin kulturwissenschaftlicher Forschung geworden, das auch ökologische Ansätze, kritische Positionen und politische Stimmen mit einschließt.
Die heile Familie
Die Vorstellung der bürgerlichen Kleinfamilie als ‚heiler‘, oft als schlicht ‚natürlicher‘ Formation hat sich tief in das Sprechen über Familien eingegraben. Der Band fragt nach den Bausteinen dieser Erzählung in juristischen und literarischen Texten der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts und der Gegenwart. Der Mythos „Familie“ entsteht auch im Austausch beider Diskurse als machtvolle Erzählung – und wird gleichzeitig von Beginn an massiv in Frage gestellt. Die noch heute hitzig geführten Debatten zu traditionellen oder progressiven Familienformen, insbesondere zum so genannten Kindeswohl, werden in ihrer Widersprüchlichkeit dann verständlicher, wenn man die divergierenden Traditionslinien der Diskurse kennt. Neben den juristischen Texten werden literarische Beispiele u. a. von Adalbert Stifter, Wilhelm Raabe, Clemens J. Setz, John von Düffel und Peter Wawerzinek gelesen.
