@phdthesis{Schallau2024, author = {Schallau, Juliane}, title = {"Maybe Happen Is Never Once" - temporalities of guilt in William Faulkner}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-62885}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-628858}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {iv, 171}, year = {2024}, abstract = {This study focuses on William Faulkner, whose works explore the demise of the slavery-based Old South during the Civil War in a highly experimental narrative style. Central to this investigation is the analysis of the temporal dimensions of both individual and collective guilt, thus offering a new approach to the often-discussed problem of Faulkner's portrayal of social decay. The thesis examines how Faulkner re-narrates the legacy of the Old South as a guilt narrative and argues that Faulkner uses guilt in order to corroborate his concept of time and the idea of the continuity of the past. The focus of the analysis is on three of Faulkner's arguably most important novels: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down, Moses. Each of these novels features a main character deeply overwhelmed by the crimes of the past, whether private, familial, or societal. As a result, guilt is explored both from a domestic as well as a social perspective. In order to show how Faulkner blends past and present by means of guilt, this work examines several methods and motifs borrowed from different fields and genres with which Faulkner narratively negotiates guilt. These include religious notions of original sin, the motif of the ancestral curse prevalent in the Southern Gothic genre, and the psychological concept of trauma. Each of these motifs emphasizes the temporal dimensions of guilt, which are the core of this study, and makes clear that guilt in Faulkner's work is primarily to be understood as a temporal rather than a moral problem.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Maerz2020, author = {M{\"a}rz, Moses}, title = {{\´E}douard Glissant's politics of relation}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-50948}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-509486}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {xv, 530}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The political legacy of the Martinican poet, novelist and philosopher {\´E}douard Glissant (1928-2011) is the subject of an ongoing debate among postcolonial literary scholars. Responding to an influential view shaping this debate, that Glissant's work can be categorised into an early political and late apolitical phase, this dissertation claims that this division is based on a narrow conception of 'engaged political writing' that prevents a more comprehensive view of the changing political strategies Glissant pursued throughout his life from emerging. Proceeding from this conceptual basis, the dissertation is concerned with re-reading the dimensions of Glissant's work that have hitherto been relegated as apolitical, literary or poetic, with the aim of conceptualising the politics of relation as an integral part of his overall poetic project. In methodological terms, the dissertation therefore proposes a relational reading of Glissant's life-work across literary genres, epochs, as well as the conventional divisions between political thought, writing and activism. This perspective is informed by Glissant's philosophy of relation, and draws on a conception of political practice that includes both explicit engagements with established political systems and institutions, as well as literary and cultural interventions geared towards their transformation and the creation of alternatives to them. Theoretically the work thus combines a poststructuralist lens on the conceptual difference between 'politics' and 'the political' with arguments for an inherent political quality of literature, and perspectives from the Afro-Caribbean radical tradition, in which writers and intellectuals have historically sought to combine discursive interventions with organisational actions. Applying this theoretical angle to the analysis of Glissant's politics of relation results in an interdisciplinary research framework designed to explore the synergies between postcolonial political and literary studies. In order to comprehensively describe Glissant's politics of relation without recourse to evolutionary or digressive models, the concept of an intellectual marronage is proposed as a framework to map the strategies making up Glissant's political archive. Drawing on a variety of historic, political theoretical and literary sources, intellectual marronage is understood as a mode of radical resistance to the neocolonial subjugation for which the plantation system stands historically and metaphorically, as an inherently innovative political practice invested in the creation of communities marked by relational ontologies, and as a commitment to fostering an imagination of the world and the human that differs fundamentally from the Enlightenment paradigm. This specific conception of intellectual marronage forms the basis on which three key strategies that consistently shape Glissant's political practice are identified and mapped. They revolve around Glissant's engagement with history (chapter 2), his commitment to fostering an imagination of the Tout-Monde (whole-world) as a political point of reference (chapter 3), and the continuous exploration of alternative forms of community on the levels of the island, the archipelago and the Tout-Monde (chapter 4). Together these strategies constitute Glissant's personal politics of relation. Its abstract characteristics can be put in a productive conversation with related theoretical traditions invested in exploring the political potentials of fugitivity (chapters 5), as well as with the work of other postcolonial actors whose holistic practice warrants to be described as a politics of relation (chapter 6).}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Priewe2006, author = {Priewe, Marc}, title = {Writing transit : refiguring national imaginaries in Chicana/o narratives}, series = {American Studies}, volume = {140}, journal = {American Studies}, publisher = {Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-8253-5215-8}, pages = {XII, 267 S. : Ill.}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Retzlaff2005, author = {Retzlaff, Steffi}, title = {Tradition, solidarity and empowerment : the native discourse in Canada ; an analysis of native news representations}, publisher = {Ibidem-Verl.}, address = {Stuttgart}, isbn = {3-89821-522-9}, pages = {344 S. : graph. Darst.}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Temmen2020, author = {Temmen, Jens}, title = {The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s)}, series = {American Studies ; 308}, journal = {American Studies ; 308}, publisher = {Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-8253-4713-0}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {x, 259}, year = {2020}, abstract = {'The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialisms' sets into relation U.S. imperial and Indigenous conceptions of territoriality as articulated in U.S. legal texts and Indigenous life writing in the 19th century. It analyzes the ways in which U.S. legal texts as "legal fictions" narratively press to affirm the United States' territorial sovereignty and coherence in spite of its reliance on a variety of imperial practices that flexibly disconnect and (re)connect U.S. sovereignty, jurisdiction and territory. At the same time, the book acknowledges Indigenous life writing as legal texts in their own right and with full juridical force, which aim to highlight the heterogeneity of U.S. national territory both from their individual perspectives and in conversation with these legal fictions. Through this, the book's analysis contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the coloniality of U.S. legal fictions, while highlighting territoriality as a key concept in the fashioning of the narrative of U.S. imperialism.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Pal2001, author = {P{\´a}l, Andrea}, title = {The role of cross-linguistic formal similarity in Hungarian-German bilingual learners of English as a foreign language}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-0000189}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2001}, abstract = {Gegenstand der Dissertation ist die Untersuchung interlingualer lexikalischer Prozesse von Worterkennung und-zugriff bei ungarndeutschen Bilingualen, die Englisch als Fremdsprache erlernen, unter besonderer Ber{\"u}cksichtigung der Rolle von Kognaten. Ziel der Studie ist es, die Prozesse lexikalischer Aktivierung in einem polyglotten System zu beschreiben und sowohl die mentalen Lexika, als auch die Verkn{\"u}pfung und gegenseitige Aktivierung (z. B. durch 'direct word association' oder durch 'concept mediation') zu modellieren. Drei abh{\"a}ngige Variablen werden in einer quantitativen und qualitativen Analyse empirischer Daten untersucht: Genauigkeit, Antwortzeitlatenzen und phonologische Interferenz. Die Resultate der Experimente werden im Rahmen eines multilingualen Netzwerkmodells interpretiert.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Reimer2015, author = {Reimer, Anna Maria}, title = {The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-95660}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {298}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The dissertation proposes that the spread of photography and popular cinema in 19th- and 20th-century-India have shaped an aesthetic and affective code integral to the reading and interpretation of Indian English novels, particularly when they address photography and/or cinema film, as in the case of the four corpus texts. In analyzing the nexus between 'real' and 'reel', the dissertation shows how the texts address the reader as media consumer and virtual image projector. Furthermore, the study discusses the Indian English novel against the backdrop of the cultural and medial transformations of the 20th century to elaborate how these influenced the novel's aesthetics. Drawing upon reception aesthetics, the author devises the concept of the 'implied spectator' to analyze the aesthetic impact of the novels' images as visual textures. No God in Sight (2005) by Altaf Tyrewala comprises of a string of 41 interior monologues, loosely connected through their narrators' random encounters in Mumbai in the year 2000. Although marked by continuous perspective shifts, the text creates a sensation of acute immediacy. Here, the reader is addressed as implied spectator and is sutured into the narrated world like a film spectator ― an effect created through the use of continuity editing as a narrative technique. Similarly, Ruchir Joshi's The Last Jet Engine Laugh (2002) coll(oc)ates disparate narrative perspectives and explores photography as an artistic practice, historiographic recorder and epistemological tool. The narrative appears guided by the random viewing of old photographs by the protagonist and primary narrator, the photographer Paresh Bhatt. However, it is the photographic negative and the practice of superimposition that render this string of episodes and different perspectives narratively consequential and cosmologically meaningful. Photography thus marks the perfect symbiosis of autobiography and historiography. Tabish Khair's Filming. A Love Story (2007) immerses readers in the cine-aesthetic of 1930s and 40s Bombay film, the era in which the embedded plot is set. Plotline, central scenes and characters evoke the key films of Indian cinema history such as Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" or Raj Kapoor's "Awara". Ultimately, the text written as film dissolves the boundary between fiction and (narrated) reality, reel and real, thereby showing that the images of individual memory are inextricably intertwined with and shaped by collective memory. Ultimately, the reconstruction of the past as and through film(s) conquers trauma and endows the Partition of India as a historic experience of brutal contingency with meaning. The Bioscope Man (Indrajit Hazra, 2008) is a picaresque narrative set in Calcutta - India's cultural capital and birthplace of Indian cinema at the beginning of the 20th century. The autodiegetic narrator Abani Chatterjee relates his rise and fall as silent film star, alternating between the modes of tell and show. He is both autodiegetic narrator and spectator or perceiving consciousness, seeing himself in his manifold screen roles. Beyond his film roles however, the narrator remains a void. The marked psychoanalytical symbolism of the text is accentuated by repeated invocations of dark caves and the laterna magica. Here too, 'reel life' mirrors and foreshadows real life as Indian and Bengali history again interlace with private history. Abani Chatterjee thus emerges as a quintessentially modern man of no qualities who assumes definitive shape only in the lost reels of the films he starred in. The final chapter argues that the static images and visual frames forwarded in the texts observe an integral psychological function: Premised upon linear perspective they imply a singular, static subjectivity appealing to the postmodern subject. In the corpus texts, the rise of digital technology in the 1990s thus appears not so much to have displaced older image repertories, practices and media techniques, than it has lent them greater visibility and appeal. Moreover, bricolage and pastiche emerge as cultural techniques which marked modernity from its inception. What the novels thus perpetuate is a media archeology not entirely servant to the poetics of the real. The permeable subject and the notion of the gaze as an active exchange as encapsulated in the concept of darshan - ideas informing all four texts - bespeak the resilience of a mythical universe continually re-instantiated in new technologies and uses. Eventually, the novels convey a sense of subalternity to a substantially Hindu nationalist history and historiography, the centrifugal force of which developed in the twentieth century and continues into the present.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Eckstein2010, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {The Culture of Lyrics}, isbn = {978-3-868212-259-4}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Offizier2024, author = {Offizier, Frederike}, title = {The biosecurity individual}, series = {American Culture Studies}, volume = {43}, journal = {American Culture Studies}, publisher = {Transcript}, address = {Bielefeld}, isbn = {978-3-8376-7145-2}, issn = {2747-4380}, doi = {10.14361/9783839471456}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023121004164930640876}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {294}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies. Analyzing a wide variety of texts, from life writing to fiction, she offers a critical intervention on how this shift in the medical gaze produces new paradigms of difference and new biomedically facilitated identities: biosecurity individuals.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Kuettner2016, author = {K{\"u}ttner, Uwe-Alexander}, title = {That-initial turns in English conversation}, pages = {vii, 345}, year = {2016}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Heinecke1999, author = {Heinecke, Johannes}, title = {Temporal deixis in Welsh and Breton}, series = {Anglistische Forschungen}, volume = {272}, journal = {Anglistische Forschungen}, publisher = {Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {3-8256-0922-3}, pages = {x, 349 S.}, year = {1999}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{HavemannSendker2009, author = {Havemann-Sendker, Anna}, title = {Swinging the doors wide open : women artists securing their place at the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts in the course of the nineteenth century}, pages = {379 S. : Ill.}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Pittel2017, author = {Pittel, Harald}, title = {Romance and Irony}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {286}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{LeGallMboro2020, author = {LeGall, Yann and Mboro, Mnyaka Sururu}, title = {Remembering the dismembered}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-50850}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-508502}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {viii, 346}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This thesis - written in co-authorship with Tanzanian activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro - examines different cases of repatriation of ancestral remains to African countries and communities through the prism of postcolonial memory studies. It follows the theft and displacement of prominent ancestors from East and Southern Africa (Sarah Baartman, Dawid Stuurman, Mtwa Mkwawa, Songea Mbano, King Hintsa and the victims of the Ovaherero and Nama genocides) and argues that efforts made for the repatriation of their remains have contributed to a transnational remembrance of colonial violence. Drawing from cultural studies theories such as "multidirectional memory", "rehumanisation" and "necropolitics", the thesis argues for a new conceptualisation or "re-membrance" in repatriation, through processes of reunion, empowerment, story-telling and belonging. Besides, the afterlives of the dead ancestors, who stand at the centre of political debates on justice and reparations, remind of their past struggles against colonial oppression. They are therefore "memento vita", fostering counter-discourses that recognize them as people and stories. This manuscript is accompanied by a "(web)site of memory" where some of the research findings are made available to a wider audience. This blog also hosts important sound material which appears in the thesis as interventions by external contributors. Through QR codes, both the written and the digital version are linked with each other to problematize the idea of a written monograph and bring a polyphonic perspective to those diverse, yet connected, histories.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Oduor2020, author = {Oduor, Tony Laban}, title = {Recalibrations of Childhoods in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures}, address = {Potsdam}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {V, 228}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The idea of critical childhood studies is a relatively young disciplinary undertaking in eastern Africa. And so, a lot of inquiries have not been carried out. This field is a potential important socio-political marker, among others, of some narratives, that have emerged out of eastern Africa. Towards this end, my research seeks out an archaeology of childhood in eastern Africa. There is a monochromatic hue which has often painted the eastern African childhood. This broad stroke portrays the childhood as characterized by want. The image of the eastern African childhood is composed in terms of the war-child, poverty, disease-ridden, and aid-begging. The pitfall of this consciousness is that it erases a differentiated and pluralist nature of the eastern African childhood. Therefore, I hypothesise that childhood is a discourse from which institutional vectors become conduits of certain statement-making both process-wise and content-wise. As such a critical childhood study is a theatre of staging and unearthing its joys, tribulations, cultural constructions, and even political interventions. To this end childhood and its literatures not only reflect but also contribute to meaning making and worldliness thereof. As an attempt to move from an un-nuanced depiction, which is often monodirectional, I seek to present a chronologically synchronic and diachronic analysis of childhood in the eastern Africa. Accordingly, I excavate a chronological construction of childhood within this geopolitical region. The main conceptual anchorage is Francis Nyamnjoh who tells of the African occupying a life on convivial frontiers. He theorises an Africa that is involved in technologies of self-definition that privilege conversations, fluidity of being and relational connections on a globalised scale. I also appropriate the notion of Bula Matadi from the Congo as a decolonialist epistemological exercise to break apart polarising representations and practices of childhood in eastern Africa. This opens a space for an unbounded reconfiguration of childhood in eastern Africa. This book works on and with archival matter, in a cross-disciplinary manner and ranges from pre-colonial to post-colonial eastern Africa. It is an exploration of the trajectory of the discourse of childhood in eastern Africa, in order to eclectically investigate childhood in eastern Africa, in fictional and non-fictional representations.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Eckstein2010, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Reading song lyrics}, series = {Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft}, volume = {137}, journal = {Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft}, publisher = {Rodopi}, address = {Amsterdam}, isbn = {978-90-420-3035-0}, pages = {291 S.}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{SzczepekReed2006, author = {Szczepek Reed, Beatrice}, title = {Prosodic orientation in English conversation}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York}, isbn = {0-230-00872-0}, pages = {XIV, 231 S.}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Madoerin2022, author = {Mad{\"o}rin, Anouk}, title = {Postcolonial surveillance}, series = {Challenging Migration Studies}, journal = {Challenging Migration Studies}, publisher = {Rowman \& Littlefield}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-5381-6503-4}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {xix, 167}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Postcolonial Surveillance investigates the long history of the European border regime, focusing on the colonial forerunners of today's border technologies. The book takes a longue dur{\´e}e perspective to uncover how Europe's colonial history continues to shape the high-tech political present and has morphed into EU border migration policies, border security, and surveillance apparatuses. It exposes the racial hierarchies and power relations that form these systems and highlights key moments when the past and present interact and collide, such as in panoptic surveillance, biopolitical registers, biometric sorting, and deterrent media infrastructure. The technological genealogies assembled in this book reveal the unacknowledged histories that had to be rejected for the seemingly clean, unbiased, and neutral technologies to emerge as such.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Roth2014, author = {Roth, Julia}, title = {Ocidental readings, decolonial practies ; a selection on gender, genre and coloniality in the Americas}, series = {Inter-American Studies}, volume = {10}, journal = {Inter-American Studies}, publisher = {Wiss. Verl. Trier; Bilingual Press}, address = {Trier; Tempe, AZ}, isbn = {978-3-86821-446-8}, pages = {273 S.}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{anHaack2018, author = {an Haack, Jan}, title = {Market and affect in evangelical mission}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-42469}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-424694}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {viii, 240}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This text is a contribution to the research on the worldwide success of evangelical Christianity and offers a new perspective on the relationship between late modern capitalism and evangelicalism. For this purpose, the utilization of affect and emotion in evangelicalism towards the mobilization of its members will be examined in order to find out what similarities to their employment in late modern capitalism can be found. Different examples from within the evangelical spectrum will be analyzed as affective economies in order to elaborate how affective mobilization is crucial for evangelicalism's worldwide success. Pivotal point of this text is the exploration of how evangelicalism is able to activate the voluntary commitment of its members, financiers, and missionaries. Gathered here are examples where both spheres—evangelicalism and late modern capitalism—overlap and reciprocate, followed by a theoretical exploration of how the findings presented support a view of evangelicalism as an inner-worldly narcissism that contributes to an assumed re-enchantment of the world.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{HeidemannMalreddy2015, author = {Heidemann-Malreddy, Birte}, title = {Lost in a liminal space?}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {300}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Peters2016, author = {Peters, Arne}, title = {Linguistic Change in Galway City English}, series = {Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture ; 116}, journal = {Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture ; 116}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, isbn = {978-3-631-67178-8}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {224}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitative data as well as on linguistic features extracted from the Corpus of Galway City Spoken English, this study approaches the major sociolinguistic characteristics of (th) and (dh) variability in Galway City English. It demonstrates the diverse local patterns of variability and change in the phonetic realisation of the dental fricatives and establishes a considerable degree of divergence from traditional accounts on Irish English. This volume suggests that the linguistic stratification of variants of (th) and (dh) in Galway correlates both with the social stratification of the city itself and with the stratification of speakers by social status, sex/gender and age group.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Adamik2020, author = {Adamik, Verena}, title = {In Search of the Utopian States of America}, series = {Palgrave Studies in Utopianism}, journal = {Palgrave Studies in Utopianism}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-60278-9}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-60279-6}, pages = {xiii, 248}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: Imlay's The Emigrants (1793), Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance (1852), Howland's Papas Own Girl (1874), Griggs's Imperium in Imperio (1899), and Du Bois's The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911). They relate nation and utopia not by describing perfect societies, but by writing about attempts to immediately live radically different lives. Signposting the respective communal history, the readings provide a literary perspective to communal studies, and add to a deeply necessary historicization for strictly literary approaches to US utopianism, and for studies that focus on Pilgrims/Puritans/Founding Fathers as utopian practitioners. This book therefore highlights how the authors evaluated the USA's utopian potential and traces the nineteenth-century development of the utopian imagination from various perspectives.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Nikolova2023, author = {Nikolova, Mariya Dimitrova}, title = {How whiteness claimed the future}, series = {American Frictions}, volume = {7}, journal = {American Frictions}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-079999-6}, doi = {10.1515/9783110799996}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {178}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Interested in the ideological workings of fiction, I study how major avant-garde tropes promote the potential of permanent renewal as white America's property. Renewal ties to the capacities to create, progress, transcend, and simply be. From Black critique we know that, within dominant discourse, all these capacities have been denied to Black bodies ever since colonization. Black work has been fetishized, appropriated, stolen, and dismissed in and by dominant culture, while Black being is construed as negativity and barred on the level of ontology. It follows then that racialization operates on multiple levels in the conceptual frame of renewal. I study this conceptualization by re-reading the works of and criticism on progressive white authors. I examine how images of renewal enable the claim on futurity, transformative potential, and movement forward as exclusively white properties. Premised on oppositions between positive capacities and a state of complete incapacitation, these images are often viewed as separate constructions. This project shows that, deriving from white ideology, such representations are symbiotic and simultaneous - the "good" story of white renewal rests on the continual transgression towards Black being.}, language = {en} } @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} } @phdthesis{SantosBruss2020, author = {Santos Bruss, Sara Morais dos}, title = {Feminist solidarities after modulation}, publisher = {punctum books}, address = {Brooklyn, NY}, isbn = {978-1-68571-146-7}, doi = {10.53288/0397.1.00}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {xiii, 380}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Feminist Solidarities after Modulation produces an intersectional analysis of transnational feminist movements and their contemporary digital frameworks of identity and solidarity. Engaging media theory, critical race theory, and Black feminist theory, as well as contemporary feminist movements, this book argues that digital feminist interventions map themselves onto and make use of the multiplicity and ambiguity of digital spaces to question presentist and fixed notions of the internet as a white space and technologies in general as objective or universal. Understanding these frameworks as colonial constructions of the human, identity is traced to a socio-material condition that emerges with the modernity/colonialism binary. In the colonial moment, race and gender become the reasons for, as well as the effects of, technologies of identification, and thus need to be understood as and through technologies. What Deleuze has called modulation is not a present modality of control, but is placed into a longer genealogy of imperial division, which stands in opposition to feminist, queer, and anti-racist activism that insists on non-modular solidarities across seeming difference. At its heart, Feminist Solidarities after Modulation provides an analysis of contemporary digital feminist solidarities, which not only work at revealing the material histories and affective ""leakages"" of modular governance, but also challenges them to concentrate on forms of political togetherness that exceed a reductive or essentialist understanding of identity, solidarity, and difference.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Gasser2022, author = {Gasser, Lucy}, title = {East and South}, series = {Transdisciplinary souths}, journal = {Transdisciplinary souths}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-72225-8}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {vi, 186}, year = {2022}, abstract = {"What is 'Europe' in academic discourse? While Europe tends to be used as shorthand, often interchangeable with the 'West', neither the 'West' nor 'Europe' are homogeneous spaces. Though postcolonial studies have long been debunking Eurocentrism in its multiple guises, there is still work to do in fully comprehending how its imaginations and discursive legacies conceive the figure of Europe, as not all who live on European soil are understood as equally 'European'. This volume explores this immediate need to rethink the axis of postcolonial cultural productions, to disarticulate Eurocentrism, to recognise Europe as a more diverse, plural and fluid space, to draw forward cultural exchanges and dialogues within the Global South. Through analyses of literary texts from East-Central Europe and beyond, this volume sheds light on alternative literary cartographies - the multiplicity of Europes and being European which exist both as they are viewed from the different geographies of the global South, and within the continent itself. Covering a wide spatial and temporal terrain in postcolonial and European cultural productions, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, Global South studies and European studies"}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Peitzker2000, author = {Peitzker, Tania}, title = {Dymphna Cusack (1902 - 1981) : a feminist analysis of gender in her romantic realistic texts}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-0000276}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2000}, abstract = {Das Dissertationsprojekt befasst sich mit der australischen Autorin Dymphna Cusack, deren Popularit{\"a}t in Ost und West zwischen 1955 und 1975 ihren H{\"o}hepunkt erreichte. In diesem Zeitraum wurde sie nicht nur in den westlichen Industriestaaten, in Australien, England, Frankreich und Nord Amerika viel gelesen, sondern auch in China, Russland, der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik und in vielen Sowjetrepubliken. Im Verlauf ihres Schaffens wurde ihr grosse Anerkennung f{\"u}r ihren Beitrag zur australischen Literatur zuteil; sie erhielt die \„Commonwealth Literary Pension\“, die \„Queen\′s Silver Jubilee Medal\“ und 1981 den \„Award of her Majesty\“. Trotz dieser Unterst{\"u}tzung durch den Staat in Australien und England {\"a}usserte Cusack immer wieder feministische, humanistisch-pazifistische, und anti-faschistisch bzw. pro-sowjetische Sozialkritik. Sie war auch f{\"u}r ihren starken Nationalismus bekannt, pl{\"a}dierte daf{\"u}r, eine \„einheimische\“ Literatur und Kultur zu pflegen. Besonders das australische Bildungssystem war das Ziel ihrer Kritik, basierend auf ihren Erfahrungen als Lehrerin in st{\"a}dtischen und l{\"a}ndlichen Schulen, die sie ihrer Autobiographie beschrieb. 'Weder ihr Intellekt, noch ihre Seele oder ihre K{\"o}rper wurden gef{\"o}rdert, um ganze M{\"a}nner oder ganze Frauen aus ihnen zu machen. Besonders letztere wurden vernachl{\"a}ssigt. M{\"a}dchen wurden ermutigt, ihren Platz dort zu sehen, wo deutsche M{\"a}dchen ihn einst zu sehen hatten: bei Kindern, K{\"u}che, Kirche.' Cusack engagierte sich stark f{\"u}r Bildungsreformen, die das Versagen australischer Schulen, das erw{\"u}nschte liberal-humanistische Subjekt zu herauszubilden, beheben sollten. Der liberale Humanismus der Nachkriegszeit schuf ein popul{\"a}res Bed{\"u}rfnis nach romantischem Realismus, den man in Cusacks Texten finden kann. Um verstehen zu k{\"o}nnen, wie Frauen sich zwischen \„Realismus und Romanze\“ verfingen, biete ich eine Dekonstruktion von Geschlecht innerhalb dieses \„hybriden\“ Genres an. Mittels feministischer Methodik k{\"o}nnen Einblicke in die konfliktvolle Subjektivit{\"a}t beider Geschlechter in verschiedenen historischen Perioden gewonnen werden: die Zeit zwischen den Kriegen, w{\"a}hrend des Pazifischen Krieges und den Weltkriegen, w{\"a}hrend des Kalten Krieges, zur Zeit der Aborigine-Bewegung, des Vietnamkrieges, sowie zu Beginn der zweiten feministischen Bewegung in den siebziger Jahren. Eine Rezeptionsanalyse des romantischen Realismus und der Diskurse, die diesen pr{\"a}gen, sind in Kapitel zwei und drei untersucht. Die Dekonstruktion von Weiblichkeit und eines weiblichen Subjekts ist in Kapitel vier unternommen, innerhalb einer Diskussion der Art und Weise, wie Cusacks romantischer Erz{\"a}hlstil mit dem sozialen Realismus interagiert. Nach der Forschung von Janice Radway, werden Cusacks Erz{\"a}hlungen in zwei Tabellen unterteilt: die Liebesgeschichte versagt, ist erfolgreich, eine Parodie oder Idealisierung (s. \„Ideal and Failed Romances\“; \„Primary Love Story Succeeds or Fails\“). Unter Einbeziehung von Judith Butlers philosophischem Ansatz in die Literaturkritik wird deutlich, dass diese Hybridisierung der Gattungen das fiktionale Subjekt davon abh{\"a}lt, ihr/sein Geschlecht \„sinnvoll\“ zu inszenieren. Wie das \„reale Subjekt\“, der Frau in der Gesellschaft, agiert die fiktionale Protagonistin in einer nicht intelligiblen Art und Weise aufgrund der multiplen Anforderungen an und den Einschr{\"a}nkungen f{\"u}r ihr Geschlecht. Demnach produziert die geschlechtliche Benennung des Subjektes eine Vielfalt von Geschlechtern: Cusacks Frauen und M{\"a}nner sind gepr{\"a}gt von den unterschiedlichen und konfliktvollen Anspr{\"u}chen der dichotom gegen{\"u}bergestellten Genres. Geschlecht, als biologisches und soziales Gebilde, wird danach undefinierbar durch seine komplexen und inkonsistenten Ausdrucksformen in einem romantisch-realistischen Text. Anders gesagt f{\"u}hrt die popul{\"a}re Kombination von Liebesroman und Realismus zu einer {\"U}berschreitung der Geschlechtsbinarit{\"a}t, die in beiden Genres vorausgesetzt wird. Weiterf{\"u}hrend dient eine Betrachtung von Sexualit{\"a}t und Ethnie in Kapitel f{\"u}nf einer differenzierteren Analyse humanistischer Repr{\"a}sentationen von Geschlecht in der Nachkriegsliteratur. Die Notwendigkeit, diese Repr{\"a}sentationen in der Popul{\"a}r- und in der Literatur des Kanons zu dekonstruieren, ist im letzten Kapitel dieser Dissertation weiter erl{\"a}utert.}, subject = {Cusack}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Ogone2015, author = {Ogone, James Odhiambo}, title = {Domesticating modernity in Africa}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {229}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Deffa2016, author = {Deffa, Oromiya-Jalata}, title = {Discursive Construction of Bicultural Identity}, series = {Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft ; 113}, journal = {Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft ; 113}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, isbn = {978-3-631-67312-6}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {233}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The author examines the cultural identity development of Oromo-Americans in Minnesota, an ethnic group originally located within the national borders of Ethiopia. Earlier studies on language and cultural identity have shown that the degree of ethnic orientation of minorities commonly decreases from generation to generation. Yet oppression and a visible minority status were identified as factors delaying the process of de-ethnicization. Given that Oromos fled persecution in Ethiopia and are confronted with the ramifications of a visible minority status in the U.S., it can be expected that they have retained strong ties to their ethnic culture. This study, however, came to a more complex and theory-building result.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Krause2021, author = {Krause, Michael}, title = {Digital surveillance fiction}, publisher = {AVINUS}, address = {Hamburg}, isbn = {978-3-86938-154-1}, pages = {300}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Senft2015, author = {Senft, Christoph}, title = {Contemporary Indian writing in English between global fiction and transmodern historiography}, series = {Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 190}, journal = {Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 190}, publisher = {Rodopi}, address = {Leiden}, isbn = {978-90-04-30906-7}, pages = {239}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Christoph Senft provides a set of re-readings of contemporary Indian narrative texts as decolonial and pluralistic approaches to the past and thus offers a comprehensive overview of the subcontinent s literary landscape in the 21st century.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{MendesdeOliveira2020, author = {Mendes de Oliveira, Milene}, title = {Business negotiations in ELF from a cultural linguistic perspective}, series = {Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 43}, journal = {Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 43}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-062678-0 print}, issn = {1861-4078}, pages = {XIX, 204}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Some of the most frequent questions surrounding business negotiations address not only the nature of such negotiations, but also how they should be conducted. The answers given by business people from different cultural backgrounds to these questions are likely to differ from the standard answers found in business manuals. In her book, Milene Mendes de Oliveira investigates how Brazilian and German business people conceptualize and act out business negotiations using English as a Lingua Franca. The frameworks of Cultural Linguistics, English as a Lingua Franca, World Englishes, and Business Discourse offer the theoretical and methodological grounding for the analysis of interviews with high-ranking Brazilian and German business people. Moreover, a side study on e-mail exchanges between Brazilian and German employees of a healthcare company serves as a test case for the results arising from the interviews, and helps understand other facets of authentic intercultural business communication. Offering new insights on English as a Lingua Franca in international business contexts, Business Negotiations in ELF from a Cultural Linguistic Perspective simultaneously provides a detailed cultural-conceptual account of business negotiations from the viewpoint of Brazilian and German business people and a secondary analysis of their pragmatic aspects.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{GreweSalfeld2020, author = {Grewe-Salfeld, Mirjam}, title = {Biohacking, bodies and do-it-yourself}, series = {American Culture Studies ; 36}, journal = {American Culture Studies ; 36}, publisher = {transcript Verlag}, address = {Bielefeld}, isbn = {978-3-8376-6004-3}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {314}, year = {2020}, abstract = {From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Reinhardt2022, author = {Reinhardt, Susanne}, title = {Assessing interactional competence}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-61942}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-619423}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {304}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The development of speaking competence is widely regarded as a central aspect of second language (L2) learning. It may be questioned, however, if the currently predominant ways of conceptualising the term fully satisfy the complexity of the construct: Although there is growing recognition that language primarily constitutes a tool for communication and participation in social life, as yet it is rare for conceptualisations of speaking competence to incorporate the ability to inter-act and co-construct meaning with co-participants. Accordingly, skills allowing for the successful accomplishment of interactional tasks (such as orderly speaker change, and resolving hearing and understanding trouble) also remain largely unrepresented in language teaching and assessment. As fostering the ability to successfully use the L2 within social interaction should arguably be a main objective of language teaching, it appears pertinent to broaden the construct of speaking competence by incorporating interactional competence (IC). Despite there being a growing research interest in the conceptualisation and development of (L2) IC, much of the materials and instruments required for its teaching and assessment, and thus for fostering a broader understanding of speaking competence in the L2 classroom, still await development. This book introduces an approach to the identification of candidate criterial features for the assessment of EFL learners' L2 repair skills. Based on a corpus of video-recorded interaction between EFL learners, and following conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology as well as drawing on basic premises of research in the framework of Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition, differences between (groups of) learners in terms of their L2 repair conduct are investigated through qualitative and inductive analyses. Candidate criterial features are derived from the analysis results. This book does not only contribute to the operationalisation of L2 IC (and of L2 repair skills in particular), but also lays groundwork for the construction of assessment scales and rubrics geared towards the evaluation of EFL learners' L2 interactional skills.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{vonRath2022, author = {von Rath, Anna}, title = {Afropolitan Encounters}, series = {Imagining Black Europe ; 2}, journal = {Imagining Black Europe ; 2}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {978-1-80079-006-3}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {VIII, 276}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin explores what Afropolitanism does. Mobile people of African descent use this term to address their own lived realities creatively, which often includes countering stereotypical notions of being African. Afropolitan practices are enormously heterogeneous and malleable, which constitutes its strengths and, at the same time, creates tensions. This book traces the theoretical beginnings of Afropolitanism and moves on to explore Afropolitan practices in London and Berlin. Afropolitanism can take different forms, such as that of an identity, a political and ethical stance, a dead-end road, networks, a collective self-care practice or a strategic label. In spite of the harsh criticism, Afropolitanism is attractive for people to deal with the meanings of Africa and Africanness, questions of belonging, equal rights and opportunities. While not a unitary project, the vast variety of Afropolitan practices provide approaches to contemporary political problems in Europe and beyond. In this book, Afropolitan practices are read against the specific context of German and British colonial histories and structures of racism, the histories of Black Europeans, and contemporary right-wing resurgence in Germany and England, respectively.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Mussil2008, author = {Mussil, Stephan}, title = {A secret in spite of itself : recursive meaning in Henry James's 'The Figure in the Carpet'}, issn = {0028-6087}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Kneis2013, author = {Kneis, Philipp}, title = {(S)aged by culture : Representations of old age in american indian literature and culture}, publisher = {Peter Lang Edition}, address = {Frankfurt am Main, New York}, isbn = {978-3-631-63853-8}, pages = {298 S.}, year = {2013}, language = {en} }