@misc{Lampart2023, author = {Lampart, Fabian}, title = {Rezension zu: Per un atlante geostorico della letteratura tedesca (1900-1930) / Hrsg.: Francesco Fiorentino, Milena Massalongo, Gianluca Paolucci. - Roma: Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 2021. - 326 S. - ISBN: 978-88-95868-56-1}, series = {Studi Germanici}, volume = {2023}, journal = {Studi Germanici}, number = {23}, publisher = {Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici}, address = {Rome}, issn = {0039-2952}, pages = {289 -- 291}, year = {2023}, language = {en} } @misc{Honka2007, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Honka, Agnes}, title = {Writing an alternative Australia : women and national discourse in nineteenth-century literature}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-16502}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2007}, abstract = {In this thesis, I want to outline the emergence of the Australian national identity in colonial Australia. National identity is not a politically determined construct but culturally produced through discourse on literary works by female and male writers. The emergence of the dominant bushman myth exhibited enormous strength and influence on subsequent generations and infused the notion of "Australianness" with exclusively male characteristics. It provided a unique geographical space, the bush, on and against which the colonial subject could model his identity. Its dominance rendered non-male and non-bush experiences of Australia as "un-Australian." I will present a variety of contemporary voices - postcolonial, Aboriginal, feminist, cultural critics - which see the Australian identity as a prominent topic, not only in the academia but also in everyday culture and politics. Although positioned in different disciplines and influenced by varying histories, these voices share a similar view on Australian society: Australia is a plural society, it is home to millions of different people - women, men, and children, Aboriginal Australians and immigrants, newly arrived and descendents of the first settlers - with millions of different identities which make up one nation. One version of national identity does not account for the multitude of experiences; one version, if applied strictly, renders some voices unheard and oppressed. After exemplifying how the literature of the 1890s and its subsequent criticism constructed the itinerant worker as "the" Australian, literary productions by women will be singled out to counteract the dominant version by presenting different opinions on the state of colonial Australia. The writers Louisa Lawson, Barbara Baynton, and Tasma are discussed with regard to their assessment of their mother country. These women did not only present a different picture, they were also gifted writers and lived the ideal of the "New Women:" they obtained divorces, remarried, were politically active, worked for their living and led independent lives. They paved the way for many Australian women to come. In their literary works they allowed for a dual approach to the bush and the Australian nation. Louisa Lawson credited the bushwoman with heroic traits and described the bush as both cruel and full of opportunities not known to women in England. She understood women's position in Australian society as oppressed and tried to change politics and culture through the writings in her feminist magazine the Dawn and her courageous campaign for women suffrage. Barbara Baynton painted a gloomy picture of the Australian bush and its inhabitants and offered one of the fiercest critiques of bush society. Although the woman is presented as the able and resourceful bushperson, she does not manage to survive in an environment which functions on male rules and only values the economic potential of the individual. Finally, Tasma does not present as outright a critique as Barbara Baynton, however, she also attests the colonies a fascination with wealth which she renders questionable. She offers an informed judgement on colonial developments in the urban surrounds of the city of Melbourne through the comparison of colonial society with the mother country England. Tasma attests that the colonies had a fascination with wealth which she renders questionable. She offers an informed judgement on colonial developments in the urban surrounds of the city of Melbourne through the comparison of colonial society with the mother country England and demonstrates how uncertainties and irritations emerged in the course of Australia's nation formation. These three women, as writers, commentators, and political activists, faced exclusion from the dominant literary discourses. Their assessment of colonial society remained unheard for a long time. Now, after much academic excavation, these voices speak to us from the past and remind us that people are diverse, thus nation is diverse. Dominant power structures, the institutions and individuals who decide who can contribute to the discourse on nation, have to be questioned and reassessed, for they mute voices which contribute to a wider, to the "full", and maybe "real" picture of society.}, language = {en} } @article{Hartung2018, author = {Hartung, Heike}, title = {Longevity narratives}, series = {Journal of aging studie}, volume = {47}, journal = {Journal of aging studie}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {New York}, issn = {0890-4065}, doi = {10.1016/j.jaging.2018.03.002}, pages = {84 -- 89}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The essay looks at longevity narratives as an important configuration of old age, which is closely related to evolutionary theories of ageing. In order to analyse two case studies of longevity published in the early twentieth century, the American psychologist G. Stanley Hall's book Senescence (1922) and the British dramatist Bernard Shaw's play cycle Back to Methuselah (1921), the essay draws on an outline of theories of longevity from the Enlightenment to the present. The analysis of the two case studies illustrates that evolutionary and cultural perspectives on ageing and longevity are ambivalent and problematic. In Hall's and Shaw's texts this is related to a crisis narrative of culture and civilization against which both writers place their specific solutions of individual and species longevity. Whereas Hall employs autobiographical accounts of artists as examples of longevity to strengthen his argument about wise old men as exclusive repositories of knowledge, Shaw in his vision of longevity as an extended form of midlife for both genders encounters the limits of age representation.}, language = {en} } @misc{Eckstein2009, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Transatlantic slavery and the literary imagination}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59201}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Transatlantic slavery and the literary imagination The challenges of turning transatlantic slavery into literature A polyphony of historical voices: Caryl Phillips's dialogic imagination Literary imagination and the Zong Massacre: Fred D'Aguiar and David Dabydeen Perspectives}, language = {en} } @misc{Eckstein2011, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Saturday on Dover Beach : Ian McEwan, Matthew Arnold, and post-9/11 melancholia}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59228}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This essay revisits Ian McEwan's extremely successful novel Saturday, and interrogates its exemplary assessment of the British cultural climate after 9/11. The particular focus is on McEwan's extensive recourse to the writings of Matthew Arnold, whose melancholy outlook on culture and anarchy McEwan basically translates into the 21st century without much ideological fraction. This relapse into Victorian liberal humanism as consolation for a Western world besieged by the contingencies of terrorism is extremely problematic. Not only does it wilfully ignore the transcultural realities of modern Britain, it also promotes an ahistorical and apolitical mode of critical inquiry which may be called reductive at best in view of the global challenges that the novel addresses.}, language = {en} } @article{Crane2019, author = {Crane, Kylie Ann}, title = {Anthropocene Presences and the Limits of Deferral}, series = {Open library of humanities}, volume = {5}, journal = {Open library of humanities}, number = {1}, publisher = {Open library of humanities}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {2056-6700}, doi = {10.16995/olh.348}, pages = {24}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Literary criticism, particularly ecocriticism, occupies an uneasy position with regard to activism: reading books (or plays, or poems) seems like a rather leisurely activity to be undertaking if our environment—our planet—is in crisis. And yet, critiquing the narratives that structure worlds and discourses is key to the activities of the (literary) critic in this time of crisis. If this crisis manifests as a 'crisis of imagination' (e.g. Ghosh), I argue that this not so much a crisis of the absence of texts that address the environmental disaster, but rather a failure to comprehend the presences of the Anthropocene in the present. To interpret (literary) texts in this framework must entail acknowledging and scrutinising the extent of the incapacity of the privileged reader to comprehend the crisis as presence and present rather than spatially or temporally remote. The readings of the novels Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013) by Waanyi writer Alexis Wright (Australia) trace the uneven presences of Anthropocenes in the present by way of bringing future worlds (The Swan Book) to the contemporary (Carpentaria). In both novels, protagonists must forge survival amongst ruins of the present and future: the depicted worlds, in particular the representations of the disenfranchisement of indigenous inhabitants of the far north of the Australian continent, emerge as a critique of the intersections of capitalist and colonial projects that define modernity and its impact on the global climate.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Bickert2013, author = {Bickert, Stefanie}, title = {Floras rastlose T{\"o}chter hinter dem Gartentor : die Entwicklung weiblichen Selbstbewusstseins im Hausgarten des 19. Jahrhunderts}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-269-8}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-68172}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {313}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Die Dissertation untersucht von Autorinnen (Louisa Johnson, Jane Loudon, Maria Theresa Earle, Gertrude Jekyll, Elizabeth von Arnim) verfasste Ratgeberliteratur zum Hausgarten f{\"u}r ein weibliches Lesepublikum, mit dem Anspruch an eine praktische Gartent{\"a}tigkeit, im Zeitraum von 1839 bis 1900. Die Genderperspektive steht hieraus folgend im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit. Der Fokus auf die b{\"u}rgerliche Mittelklasse ergibt sich aus der Autorinnenperspektive und der angesprochenen Leserschaft. Die Behandlung des Gartens wird einer Analyse unterzogen, die nach der weiblichen Sicht auf den Garten und einem spezifisch weiblichen Selbstverst{\"a}ndnis der garteninteressierten bzw. g{\"a}rtnernden Frauen fragt. In ihrer Besch{\"a}ftigung mit dem Garten leisten die Frauen einen Beitrag zur Konzeption von m{\"a}nnlich und weiblich, zur Bewertung von Geschlechternormen und deren Verhandlung. Das Schreiben und Lesen {\"u}ber den Garten sowie hieraus resultierende Handlungen waren mit der Konstruktion weiblicher Identit{\"a}t verkn{\"u}pft. In ihrer befreienden Konzeption des Gartens heben sich diese Frauenstimmen zu Weiblichkeitsvorstellungen von anderen gesellschaftlichen zugeschriebenen Wirkungsbereichen ab. An die b{\"u}rgerliche Frau herangetragene Rollenerwartungen werden in den Werken weder affirmativ best{\"a}tigt noch offen subversiv hinterfragt. Es handelt sich vielmehr um ein subtiles Unterlaufen durch das Anbieten von Handlungsfeldern, die dem Wunsch nach Selbstverwirklichung und Selbstbestimmung entgegen kamen. Im Garten als vermeintlich kleinem, hausnah-restriktivem Kontext nehmen die Frauen neue Rollen an und variieren diese. Der Besch{\"a}ftigung mit dem Garten kommt daher ein protofeministischer Charakter vor dem Einsetzen der Ersten Frauenbewegung zu, so dass von einem Gartenfeminismus als Instrument zur weiblichen Bewusstwerdung gesprochen werden kann.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Behrendt2020, author = {Behrendt, Aileen Jorena}, title = {Gender Politics and British Women Writers of the 1930s}, series = {Epistemata : W{\"u}rzburger wissenschaftliche Schriften. Reihe Literaturwissenschaft}, journal = {Epistemata : W{\"u}rzburger wissenschaftliche Schriften. Reihe Literaturwissenschaft}, number = {937}, publisher = {K{\"o}nigshausen \& Neumann}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, isbn = {978-3-8260-7177-5}, issn = {2699-5859}, pages = {298}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Today's focus on the 1930s as a time of radical politics paving the way for the apocalypse of the Second World War ignores the complexity of the decade's cultural responses, especially those by British women writers who highlighted gender issues within their contemporary political climate. The decade's literature is often understood to capture the political unrest, either narrating people's chaotic movement or their paralysed shock. This book argues that 1930s novels collapse the distinction between movement and standstill and calls this phenomenon Dynamic Stasis. This Dynamic Stasis thematically and structurally informs the novels of Nancy Mitford, Stevie Smith, Rosamond Lehmann and Jean Rhys. By disrupting the oft-repeated clich{\´e} of the 1930s as the age of political extremes, gender politics and negotiations of femininity can emerge from the discursive periphery. This book therefore corrects a persistent gender blind spot, which opens up a (re)consideration of authors that have been overlooked in literary criticism of 1930s to this day.}, language = {en} } @misc{Adair2017, author = {Adair, Gigi}, title = {The "Feringhi Hakīm": medical encounters and colonial ambivalence in Isabella Bird's travels in Japan and Persia}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {120}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395316}, pages = {13}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This article considers Isabella Bird's representation of medicine in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880) and Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891), the two books in which she engages most extensively with both local (Chinese/Islamic) and Western medical science and practice. I explore how Bird uses medicine to assert her narrative authority and define her travelling persona in opposition to local medical practitioners. I argue that her ambivalence and the unease she frequently expresses concerning medical practice (expressed particularly in her later adoption of the Persian appellation "Feringhi Hakīm" [European physician] to describe her work) serves as a means for her to negotiate the colonial and gendered pressures on Victorian medicine. While in Japan this attitude works to destabilise her hierarchical understanding of science and results in some acknowledgement of traditional Japanese traditions, in Persia it functions more to disguise her increasing collusion with overt British colonial ambitions.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{OPUS4-8463, title = {Proceedings : Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam}, series = {Proceedings of the conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English}, volume = {34}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English}, editor = {R{\"o}der, Kathrin and Wischer, Ilse}, publisher = {Wissenschaftlicher Verlag}, address = {Trier}, isbn = {978-3-86821-488-8}, pages = {406}, year = {2013}, language = {en} }