TY - CHAP A1 - Wolf, Hans-Georg T1 - East and West African Englishes BT - differences and commonalities T2 - The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes N2 - This chapter compares East and West African English as two distinct regional varieties of African English. First, the historical development of English in these two regions is briefly considered. It is argued that British colonial policy contributed significantly to the sociolinguistic and, indirectly, even structural differences these varieties exhibit. Then, the discussion moves on to give a short overview of the national sub-varieties. It is found that, although united by common linguistic features, West African English is far more heterogeneous than East African English, and some explanation is provided for this phenomenon. Focusing specifically on phonetic features, the chapter summarizes and contrasts the main diagnostic and distinctive features of each regional variety, with special reference to the peculiarities of the national varieties of West African English. However, despite their structural differences, West African, East African English and, for that matter, Southern African English are rooted in a shared “African culture.” Recent findings are introduced, in which common conceptual and linguistic patterns pertaining to witchcraft, expressed in the regional varieties in question, are highlighted. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-003-12875-5 SN - 978-0-367-14439-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003128755 SP - 216 EP - 232 PB - Routledge CY - London ET - 2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Too Poor for Debt BT - Deleuze's First-World Problems JF - Coils of the Serpent N2 - Deleuze launches his description/prediction of the emergence and imminent consolidation of the society of control as a postscript. The text thus announces itself as an afterthought, a supplement appended to some complete larger textual body, from which it is, however, unmoored as it is launched as an independent self-standing text that, moreover, does not indicate to what it is an addendum but instead, on what it speaks. By this token, the Postscript unhinges the conventional notion according to which a supplement signals “the addition of something to an already complete entity” (Attridge 1992: 77). By marking his text as the adjunct to an absent main body, Deleuze appears to concede and at the same time emphatically embrace the necessary incompleteness of this short précis on the post-disciplinary regime. My argument in the following will be that the supplementary status of the Postscript does not so much signal some subversive or dissident gesture in the name of the minor or the molecular (even though it does that, too); instead, it primarily serves to keep at bay and contain an exteriority that it aims to ‘confine by exclusion’1; and that exteriority, I will argue, is the Third World. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-728571 SN - 2510-3059 VL - 6 IS - 2 SP - 100 EP - 110 PB - Universität Leipzig CY - Leipzig ER - TY - THES A1 - Temmen, Jens T1 - The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s) BT - Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territory in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing T2 - American Studies ; 308 N2 - ‘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. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-8253-4713-0 PB - Winter CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - THES A1 - Santos Bruss, Sara Morais dos T1 - Feminist solidarities after modulation N2 - 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. KW - social media KW - decolonial feminism KW - Germany KW - India KW - intersectionality KW - modulation KW - identity politics Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-68571-146-7 SN - 978-1-68571-147-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.53288/0397.1.00 PB - punctum books CY - Brooklyn, NY ER - TY - GEN A1 - Röder, Katrin A1 - Singer, Christoph T1 - Fortune, felicity and happiness in the early modern period BT - introduction T2 - Critical survey : CS Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2020.320301 SN - 0011-1570 SN - 1752-2293 VL - 32 IS - 3 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - Berghahn Books CY - Oxford [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Roos, Jana A1 - Starks, Donna A1 - Macdonald, Shem A1 - Nicholas, Howard T1 - Connecting worlds BT - linguistic landscapes as transformative curriculum artefacts in schools and universities T2 - The Routledge handbook of language education curriculum design N2 - This chapter considers the benefits of working with linguistic landscapes for language education curriculum. It shows how introducing linguistic landscape exploration into the curriculum can support learners to read beyond words and to build critical understandings of intersections between words and worlds. The chapter explores data from two case studies in different educational contexts. The first study shows the effects of scaffolding in-service languages teachers to learn to read their worlds from multiple perspectives. The second study illustrates the types of insights that can emerge from school EFL learners when they explore the linguistic landscapes of worlds beyond their classrooms. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-138-95857-9 SN - 978-1-315-66103-2 SP - 238 EP - 257 PB - Routledge CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rath, Anna von T1 - Strategic label BT - Afropolitan literature in Germany JF - Afropolitan Literature as World Literature N2 - The Afropolitan Berlin novel Biskaya by SchwarzRund (2016) is probably the first novel written in German which demonstratively wears this label – on the front cover of the book, the author announces it to be an Afropolitaner Berlin Roman underneath the title. While addressing quite a few particulars of the Berlin-Brandenburg area, the novel writes itself willingly into the globally popular, yet controversial realm of African inflected cosmopolitanism. In this essay, I will argue that the author uses the label strategically to negotiate the global and the local – or worldliness and cultural specificity – with the aim to increase the visibility of queer of Color critique in Germany. SchwarzRund’s approach may seem contradictory at first: Even though she could have called her novel queer, neuro-diverse, diasporic or Black, she chose Afropolitan. While she wrote an outspokenly political novel, she labeled it with a term often critically denounced as apolitical. Using Afropolitanism, she seems to aim at a rather mainstream audience, but at the same time, she published with a small, activist publishing house. While attempting to tap into the transnational cultural and literary capital of Afropolitanism, the language of the book is German and restricts it to the German-speaking parts of the world. This essay will explore the Afropolitanism depicted in Biskaya and elaborate on the strategic choice of label. I will offer one possible interpretation of the characters and settings which illustrate SchwarzRund’s vision and version of Afropolitanism. In my analyses, I am interested in political questions around the characters’ identities and the setting. The Black protagonists of the novel, Tue and Dwayne, live in Berlin, but grew up on the fictional island Biskaya. This island is located somewhere close to the European mainland and part of the continent; it had an entirely Black population until a destructive event forced many to move to the mainland. The protagonists, now living in a mainly white society, are depicted in a state of interrogation of their own sense of self, measuring oppressive societal norms against other possible ways of interaction. The novel shows how people are deemed strange and not fitting into a network of unspoken rules because of racialized bodies, sexual preferences and#shor lifestyle choices. However, SchwarzRund counters those structures of inequality with her characters’ playful ways to deal with queerness, femininity and blackness subverting imposed norms. The novel challenges imperatives of subordination, creates new visions and inscribes Black Germans as political subjects. KW - Afropolitanism KW - Germany KW - queer KW - black Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-5013-4260-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501342615.ch-003 SP - 37 EP - 56 PB - Bloomsbury Academic CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pohl, Manuela T1 - „The game’s afoot!“ BT - Zum Potential von Computerspielen im Fremdsprachenunterricht JF - DIGAREC Series N2 - Computerspiele bieten – verstanden als Text, als popkulturelles Artefakt, als Lerngelegenheit und vieles mehr – auch für den Einsatz im Fremdsprachenunterricht zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, curricular vorgegebene Kompetenzen auszubilden. Nicht nur kann die Auseinandersetzung mit Computerspielen einen Beitrag zur fachintegrativen Vermittlung von Medienkompetenz leisten, sondern ebenso dazu genutzt werden, Handlungen zu simulieren, in denen Schülerinnen und Schüler fremdsprachig (inter-)agieren. Der folgende Beitrag versucht daher, exemplarisch zwei Computerspiele auf ihr Potential für den Einsatz im Fremdsprachenunterricht Englisch zu untersuchen. Er versteht sich als praktischer Beitrag, der Einblick in didaktisch-methodische Überlegungen bietet, welche die Auseinandersetzung mit den zwei exemplarisch ausgewählten Spielen, HER STORY (2015) und 1979 REVOLUTION: BLACK FRIDAY (2016), in den Blick nehmen. Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-430672 SN - 978-3-86956-467-8 SN - 1867-6219 SN - 1867-6227 IS - 08 SP - 104 EP - 133 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Peters, Arne A1 - Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan T1 - Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth BT - a portrait-corpus study JF - Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science N2 - Elicitation materials like language portraits are useful to investigate people's perceptions about the languages that they know. This study uses portraits to analyse the underlying conceptualisations people exhibit when reflecting on their language repertoires. Conceptualisations as manifestations of cultural cognition are the purview of cognitive sociolinguistics. The present study advances portrait methodology as it analyses data from structured language portraits of 105 South African youth as a linguistic corpus from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The approach enables the uncovering of (a) prominent underlying conceptualisations of African language(s) and the body, and (b) the differences and similarities of these conceptualisations vis-a-vis previous cognitive (socio) linguistic studies of embodied language experiences. In our analysis, African home languages emerged both as 'languages of the heart' linked to cultural identity and as 'languages of the head' linked to cognitive strength and control. Moreover, the notion of 'degrees of proficiency' or 'magnitude' of language knowledge emerged more prominently than in previous studies of embodied language experience. KW - language portraits KW - embodiment KW - corpus linguistics KW - cognitive KW - sociolinguistics KW - cultural conceptualisations Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0101 SN - 0936-5907 SN - 1613-3641 SN - 1861-048X VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 579 EP - 608 PB - Mouton de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - THES A1 - Oduor, Tony Laban T1 - Recalibrations of Childhoods in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures N2 - 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. KW - Childhoods KW - Bula Matadi KW - Frontier Conviviality Y1 - 2020 CY - Potsdam ER -