@article{Ette1999, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {"I carry a wound across my chest" : the body in Marti's poetry}, year = {1999}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Alexander von Humboldt}, series = {Offene Horizonte : Sch{\"a}tze zu Humboldts Reisewegen}, journal = {Offene Horizonte : Sch{\"a}tze zu Humboldts Reisewegen}, publisher = {Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim}, address = {Pforzheim}, isbn = {978-3-933924-25-4}, pages = {20 -- 21}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2005, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Alexander von Humboldt : the American Hemisphere and Trans-Area Studies}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2008, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Arab-Caribbean origins : on the transareal dimension in Amin Maalouf's literary work. Coming home to the familiar unknown}, isbn = {978-3-631-56716-6}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2012, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Archeologies of Globalization : European Reflections on Two Phases of Accelerated Globalization in Cornelius de Pauw, Georg Forster, Guillaume-Thomas Raynal and Alexander von Humboldt}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2006, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Chronicle of a Clash Foretold? : ArabAmerican Dimensions and Transareal Relations in Gabriel Garc{\"O}a M{\´a}rquez and Elias Khoury}, isbn = {3-86527-289-4}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2009, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {European literature(s) in the global context}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2010, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Everything is interrelated, even the errors in the system : Alexander von Humboldt and globalization}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2012, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Everything is interrelated, even the errors in the system : Alexander von Humboldtd and globalization}, isbn = {978-0-415-69787-3}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Exploring the World: On Vectopia}, series = {Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany}, journal = {Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany}, editor = {Pdoksik, Efraim}, publisher = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, isbn = {978-90-04-36117-1}, pages = {214 -- 242}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {From the Transarchip{\´e}lique Antilles}, series = {Ameena Gafoor Institute}, journal = {Ameena Gafoor Institute}, pages = {11}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Ottmar Ette: TransArea : a literary history of globalization. Translated by Mark W. Person, Berlin, Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2016. - 356 S. - ISBN 978-3-11-047773-3}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2006, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Gender Trouble : Jos{\´e} Mart{\´i} and Juana Borrero}, isbn = {0-7391-1224-4}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2003, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Gender Trouble : Jos{\´e} Mart{\´i} y Juana Borrero}, isbn = {3-925867-67-8}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{KutzinskiEtte2011, author = {Kutzinski, Vera M. and Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Inventories and Inventions: Alexander von Humboldt's Cuban Landscapes}, isbn = {978-0-226-46567-8}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2007, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Islands, borders, and Vectors : the Fractal World of the Caribbean}, isbn = {978-90-420-2184-6}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Ette1995, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {La polisemia prohibida : la recepci{\´o}n de Jos{\´e} Mart{\´i} como sism{\´o}grafo de la vida pol{\´i}tica y cultural}, year = {1995}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2011, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Listening to the jungle or life as sound : Alexander von Humboldt's "Noctirnal Animal Life in the Jungle" and the Humboldt effect}, isbn = {978-3-86821-343-0}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2010, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Literature as knowledge for living, literary studies as science for living}, issn = {0030-8129}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @book{Ette2003, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Literature on the move}, series = {Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft}, volume = {68}, journal = {Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft}, publisher = {Rodopi}, address = {Amsterdam}, isbn = {90-420-1155-6}, pages = {316 S. : Ill.}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2005, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Literature without fixed residence : Insularity, history and sociocultural dynamic in XXth century Cuba}, year = {2005}, abstract = {From its very beginnings, Cuban literature has been a literature with no fixed abode: written between Cuba and Mexico (Jose Maria Heredia), Cuba and Spain (Gertrudis Gomez de Avellanedo), Cuba and the US. (Cirilo Villaverde), or between Cuba, Europe and the Americas (Jose Marti), but to mention the outstanding figures in Cuba's 19(th) Century. This article tries to unfold and develop the consequences of this new perspective by insisting on the specific "frictional" character of Cuban literature and culture today}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2006, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Literatures without a Fixed Abode : figures of Vectorial Imagination Beyond the Dichotomies of National and World Literature}, isbn = {3-86527-289-4}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2016, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Magic Screens. Biombos, Namban Art, the Art of Globalization and Education between China, Japan, India, Spanish America and Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries}, series = {European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea}, volume = {24}, journal = {European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {1062-7987}, doi = {10.1017/S1062798715000630}, pages = {285 -- 296}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, for several centuries doubtlessly the most discussed and most eminent writer of Andean America in the 16th and 17th centuries, throughout his life set the utmost value on the fact that he descended matrilineally from Atahualpa Yupanqui and from the last Inca emperor, Huayna C{\´a}pac. Thus, both in his person and in his creative work he combined different cultural worlds in a polylogical way.1 Two painters boasted that very same Inca descent - they were the last two great masters of the Cuzco school of painting, which over several generations of artists had been an institution of excellent renown and prestige, and whose economic downfall and artistic marginalization was vividly described by the French traveller Paul Mancoy in 1837.2 While, during the 18th century, Cuzco school paintings were still much cherished and sought after, by the beginning of the following century the elite of Lima regarded them as behind the times and provincial, committed to an 'indigenous' painting style. The artists from up-country - such was the reproach - could not keep up with the modern forms of seeing and creating, as exemplified by European paragons. Yet, just how 'provincial', truly, was this art?}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2008, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Mobile melemverdener : for en transareal (litteratur) videnskab}, isbn = {978- 87-7934-333-7}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2011, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Not just brought about by chance : reflections on globalisation in Cornelius de Pauw and Alexander von Humboldt}, doi = {10.1080/13645145.2011.537501}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This essay shows in what sense Alexander von Humboldt created a new discourse on the New World. In his view of the Americas, he was able to subvert the dominantly spatial history of the 'new hemisphere' found in Cornelius de Pauw or Guillaume-Thomas Raynal by introducing dynamic and vectorial structures that allow us to focus on the Americas not as 'the other' but as a highly interrelated part of the world. Humboldt's Weltbewusstsein ('world consciousness') develops a new discourse that can be best understood as a complex answer to the second period of accelerated globalisation.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Ette2019, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Pride and conviviality - pride in conviviality}, series = {Taking Stock - Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)}, volume = {200}, booktitle = {Taking Stock - Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)}, publisher = {Brill Rodopi}, address = {Leiden [u.a.]}, isbn = {978-90-04-41035-0}, issn = {0929-6999}, doi = {10.1163/9789004410350_006}, pages = {121 -- 155}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Pride is linked to conviviality, to the practice of life-with-an-other, and to an awareness of the limitations of the life forms and life norms which guide and regulate the life of culturally, socially, and historically defined communities. Assuming this link, pride in living-together and conviviality appear as concepts creating a framework for future perspectives. But these concepts need a space in which they can unfold critically and confidently with a view to the future. For millennia, the literatures of the world have created this space of simulation and experimentation in which knowledge of how-to-live-with-an-other has been put down on paper through the open-ended tradition of writing. It is the space of the life forms and life norms of conviviality: it offers us prospective knowledge for the future by translating the imaginable into the thinkable, and the readable into the livable.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Saga-Like World-Fractals: Jo{\~a}o Guimar{\~a}es Rosa, "Sagarana", and the Literatures of the World}, series = {Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures}, volume = {IV}, journal = {Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures}, number = {1}, publisher = {Hunan Normal University}, address = {Changsha}, pages = {1 -- 21}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This article presents and discusses Jo{\~a}o Guimar{\~a}es Rosa as an outstanding Brazilian author whose literary work, especially Sagarana, expresses aesthetically different ways of life-forms between human beings, animals, plants, and landscapes. Movement and transformations are the basic principles in which the melody of prose expresses itself as a language in and as motion. Although based in Brazilian culture, Rosa shows the conviviality of different logics which are not reduced to one myth of the Brazilian people, but produce multiple ways of co-existence between different life-forms and culture narratives. The translingual title "Sagarana" already alludes to the transitions between two languages, regions, and cultures: the Icelandic "saga-" and the Tupic-Word "rana" which means "similar" or "alike." The interpretation figures out the correlation of different provenances ("Herk{\"u}nfte") which emerge from Rosa's craft of storytelling. In its center, the Sert{\~a}o arises as a region of nature whose forces are connected with the life of human beings. As fractal of the world, it symbolizes Brazilian relations as a world of its own and at the same time as a part of the world of others. From this point of view the essay turns world literature upside down: it emphasizes on the one hand that the epoch of world literature since Goethe has come to an end and that the meridian has shifted to Latin America. On the other hand it can be observed that the lusophonic world between Brazil and Angola, Portugal and Kap Verde develops new perspectives on literatures of the world beyond the fixed coordinations of periphery and center. Rosa's ways of world making already shift the perspective from the local to the global as a miniatured model of a universe which reveals interpretations of a better understanding of the world as world fractals.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2003, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Sex Literally Revisited : being-a-body and Having-a-Body in Ram{\´o}n G{\´o}mez de la Serna, Luisa Futoransky and Juan Manuel de Prada}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{PannewickEtte2006, author = {Pannewick, Friederike and Ette, Ottmar}, title = {The American Hemisphere and the Arab World : introduction}, isbn = {3-86527-289-4}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{KutzinskiEtte2012, author = {Kutzinski, Vera M. and Ette, Ottmar}, title = {The art of science: Alexander von Humboldt's views of the cultures of the world}, isbn = {0-226-86506-1}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2003, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {The centennial of Max Aub : Introduction}, issn = {0034-8635}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2010, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {The fascination of Humboldt : Humboldtian science as a model for the future}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2003, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {The West revisited - Max Aub : writing (while) in motion}, issn = {0034-8635}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2003, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {The World in Our Head : Images and After-Images of the City in the Works of Albert Cohen}, isbn = {0-8014-4021-1 ;}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2016, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Toward a Polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World}, series = {Modern language quarterly : a journal of literary history}, volume = {77}, journal = {Modern language quarterly : a journal of literary history}, publisher = {Duke Univ. Press}, address = {Durham}, issn = {0026-7929}, doi = {10.1215/00267929-3464841}, pages = {143 -- 173}, year = {2016}, abstract = {As the world cannot be adequately understood from the vantage point of a single language, the literatures of the world can no longer be trimmed to a single world literature in the Goethean sense. This recognition bodes well for the future of philology and of literary production. Through multiperspectival writing, knowledge of life may be attainable without being reduced to a single political, medial, cartographical, geocultural, or aesthetic logic. As a laboratory for polylogical thinking, literature does not represent reality, as Erich Auerbach put it. Rather, it represents multiple lived, experienced, or relivable realities. Whoever is open to a polylogical reception of the literatures of the world can perceive and experience how life knowledge transforms into lived knowledge and how knowledge for survival turns into knowledge for living together. However, literature can be more than it is only if it stays aware of the void, of lack, of privation, of the interminable: aware of the end that never is an end. Such a planetary concept of the literatures of the world offers valuable opportunities to all those who do not fall into the trap of contenting themselves with a supposed abundance of text.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Towards a polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World}, series = {Abralic}, journal = {Abralic}, pages = {41}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2007, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Towards World Science? Humboldtian Science, World Concepts, and Transarea Studies}, isbn = {978-84-8489-303-5}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2018, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {TransArea Tangier}, series = {Re-mapping World Literature Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemolog{\´i}as entre Am{\´e}rica Latina y el Sur Global}, journal = {Re-mapping World Literature Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemolog{\´i}as entre Am{\´e}rica Latina y el Sur Global}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-054957-7}, issn = {2513-0757}, doi = {10.1515/9783110549577-019}, pages = {283 -- 321}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2012, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {TransTropics: Alexander von Humboldt and Hemispheric Constructions}, isbn = {978-3-938944-63-9}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2011, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Urbanity and literature - cities as transareal spaces of movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar and Cecile Wajsbrot}, series = {European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea}, volume = {19}, journal = {European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea}, number = {3}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {1062-7987}, doi = {10.1017/S106279871100010X}, pages = {367 -- 383}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Transarea studies focus upon spaces as created by the movements that criss-cross them. From this point of view, from its very beginnings, literature is closely interrelated with a vectorial (and much less with a purely spatial) conception of history - and with urbanity, which plays a decisive role in Gilgamesh's travels through a (narrative) cosmos centered upon the city of Uruk. This article explores the city as a transareal space of movement in three examples of literature, with no fixed abode, around the turn of the millennium, i.e. Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar's Istanbul-Berlin Trilogy, and Cecile Wajsbrot's L'ile aux musees. These three writers project, in a very specific way, cities in motion as anagrammatic and fractal structures.}, language = {en} } @article{EtteMinnes2011, author = {Ette, Ottmar and Minnes, M.}, title = {Urbanity and literature : cities as transareal spaces of movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi {\"O}zdamar and Cecile Wajsbrot}, issn = {1062-7987}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2005, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Wandering Networks : Euphoria and the Dead Ends of Science in Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2017, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Welterleben/Weiterleben}, series = {Daphnis : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r mittlere deutsche Literatur}, volume = {45}, journal = {Daphnis : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r mittlere deutsche Literatur}, number = {3-4}, publisher = {Editions Rodopi BV}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0300-693X}, doi = {10.1163/18796583-04503002}, pages = {343 -- 388}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Welterleben and Weiterleben are what determine the second globalization (of four previously explored) whose constantly accelerating dynamic, vectorization, this essay explores. On the basis of selected writings of Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Adelbert von Chamisso, the author highlights the increasing speed with which knowledge, especially in the experiential sciences, is produced and disseminated following the routes of ever-widening trade speeded along by globalization. The notion of 'vectopia' stands for the connection of utopia and uchronia in space and time in such a way that the experience of the world, expanded worldwide, contains within it a Weiter-Leben, a 'living-further' that is to be understood first in a spatial, and not yet temporal, sense, of what Forster called Erfahrungswissen, or 'experiential knowledge.' Vectopia, as elaborated here, has a material dimension that relates to the physical person, the body, the experience of the world that cannot occur without the constant changing of place, without a journeying that is again and again recommenced. Vectopia develops the projection of a life not from space or from time alone, but by their combination. Vectopia is more than a concept, it is a thought-figure: it is vitally connected to life, and thus a life-figure. It opens itself to a type of knowledge that stands almost at the threshold of a further life, indeed, of a Weiterleben that, opening itself to a 'living-onward,' resides beyond space, time, and movement.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Wilhelm \& Alexander von Humboldt or: Humboldtian Science}, series = {Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt - Berlin Cosmos}, journal = {Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt - Berlin Cosmos}, editor = {Spies, Paul and Tintemann, Ute and Mende, Jan}, publisher = {Wienand}, address = {K{\"o}ln}, isbn = {978-3-86832-559-1}, pages = {19 -- 23}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2012, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Worldwide : Living in Transarchipelagic Worlds}, isbn = {978-8-48-489670-8}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @book{Ette2016, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Writing-between-worlds}, series = {Mimesis ; 64}, journal = {Mimesis ; 64}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-046109-1}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {339}, year = {2016}, language = {en} }