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9/11 in European Literature
This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While the volume shows that these identity formations are frequently based on the construction of two Others—the US nation and a cultural-ethnic idea of Muslim communities—it also analyses examples which undermine such constructions. This much more self-critical strand in European literature unveils the Eurocentrism of a supposedly general humanistic value system through the use of complex aesthetic strategies. These strategies are in itself characteristic of the European reception as the Anglo-Irish, British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Polish perspectives collected in this volume perceive of the terror attacks through the lens of continental media and semiotic theory.
The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film
This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. Whenever mass-mediated acts of terrorism occur, they tend to trigger a proliferation of threat scenarios not only in the realm of literature and film but also in the statements of policymakers, security experts, and journalists. In the process, the discursive boundary between the factual and the speculative can become difficult to discern. To elucidate this phenomenon, this book proposes that terror is a halfway house between the real and the imaginary. For what characterizes terrorism is less the singl...
The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual
The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual examines the issues with which the contemporary African intellectual engages, the fields s/he occupies, her/his residence and perspective, and her/his relations with the State and the people. In an increasingly economically deprived Africa, in which some states are ruled by dictators, what chances do people have of becoming intellectuals, using their critical faculties to challenge hegemony, enacting the transformative power of ideas in a public forum? Do intellectuals who remain in Africa run the risk of being swallowed into a vortex of hagiography? What is the responsibility of the intellectual in the face of an event such as the Rwandan ge...
Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines
Bringing together contributions from various disciplines and academic fields, this collection engages in interdisciplinary dialogue on postcolonial issues. Covering African, anglophone, Romance, and New-World themes, linguistic, literary, and cultural studies, and historiography, music, art history, and textile studies, the volume raises questions of (inter)disciplinarity, methodology, and entangled histories. The essays focus on the representation of slavery in the transatlantic world (the USA, Jamaica, Haiti, and the wider Caribbean, West Africa, and the UK). Drawing on a range of historical sources, material objects, and representations, they study Jamaican Creole, African masks, knitted ...
On Migration
This volume is based on the section “Transnationalities – Transidentities – Hybridities – Diasporization”, organized by the Ibero-American and Francophone Research Centres of the University of Leipzig as part of the First Annual Conference of the Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig. By now, already a decade has passed since our conference section took place and it is due to various circumstances that this volume has not been published earlier. It carries along, in some sense, its own migration trace. Nevertheless, the questions examined in the contributions have reached even more relevance since then in both, the Old World and the New, due to the various political,...
Literature and Terrorism
The years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that the study of literature has much to offer to the transdisciplinary investigation of terror, not only with respect to the present post-9/11 situation but also with respect to earlier historical contexts. Literary texts are media of cultural self-reflection, and as such they have always played a crucial role in the discursive response to terror, both contributing to and resisting dominant conception...
Research in African Literatures
Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt.
Subject of the Event
What does falling in love have in common with the fall of the Berlin Wall? Or the fall of the Twin Towers? In the light of postmodernism's programmatic critique of a humanist notion of the subject and an emphatic understanding of events, Subject of the Event shows that selected American novels after 2000 offer an alternative to the “death of the subject.” As the first book to comprehensively engage with Alain Badiou's writings outside of a philosophical context, Subject of the Event analyzes five critically acclaimed novels of the new millennium-Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), Jess Walter's The Zero (2006), Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions (2006), Paul Beatty's Slumberland (2008...
Sortieren, Sammeln, Suchen, Spielen
Die Datenbank - sie ist aus unserer modernen technisierten Gesellschaft nicht mehr wegzudenken, und verändert so unterschiedliche Lebensbereiche wie die Wissensbeschaffung, diverse Bereiche der Wirtschaft von der Logistik bis zum Personalwesen, biotechnologische Forschung aber auch die Partnersuche, die fiskalische Profilbildung, unser Freizeitverhalten und vieles mehr. Dieser Sammelband widmet sich der Datenbank im Hinblick auf die Frage nach ihrer Signifikanz für eine durch digitale Technologien und ludische Praxen geprägten Medienkultur. Sortieren, Sammeln, Suchen und Spielen werden dabei als zentrale Bereiche medialer Praxen begriffen, die sich auf Datenbanken rückbeziehen lassen und spezifisch durch diese informiert werden.
Interkulturalität und Alltag
Dieser Band fasst die Ergebnisse einer Ringvorlesung zusammen, die im Sommersemester 2010 an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz gehalten wurde. Vertreterinnen und Vertreter verschiedener kultur-, sprach- und literaturwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen referierten anhand anschaulicher Beispiele über den Forschungsstand zur Interkulturalität in ihrem Metier und verwiesen dabei auf die Bezüge des Konzeptes zur modernen Alltagskulturforschung. Eine Besonderheit dieser Veranstaltungsreihe war ihre Konzeption und Organisation durch Studierende des Faches Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde, denen daran gelegen war, mit dem unterbreiteten Angebot ein aktuelles Themengebiet interdisziplinärer Forschungen genauer auszuleuchten. Für die Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Fragenkomplex hat die Textauswahl somit einen grundlegenden, einführenden Charakter.
