TY - JOUR A1 - Adamik, Verena T1 - From Utopian Island to global empire BT - Alex Garland's the Beach JF - Utopian Studies N2 - This article discusses how Alex Garland’s The Beach (1996) engages with conceptions of utopian islands, nation, and colonialism in modernity and how it, from this basis, develops a different spatiality that reflects on a more deterritorialized form of imperial domination within late twentieth-century globalization, as exercised by the United States. The novel is shown to subvert, but not to abolish, two spatial formations that originated in early modernity: nation and utopia. Building on Jean Baudrillard’s elaborations regarding simulation and simulacra, the article argues that The Beach creates a hyperreal narrative that does away with the idea of isolated, bounded spaces and that in form and content corresponds with the worldwide dominance of the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/doi: 10.5325/utopianstudies.31.3.0457 VL - 31 IS - 3 SP - 457 EP - 474 PB - Penn State University Press CY - University Park, Pa ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Adamik, Verena T1 - Alien Horrors BT - lovecraft and the racialized underclass in the age of trump JF - The Aliens Within : danger, disease, and displacement in representations of the racialized poor N2 - H. P. Lovecraft’s oeuvre abounds with stereotypes of the racialized poor. As scholars have noted, Lovecraft’s work turns those he viewed as ‘Others’ into ‘aliens.’ Poor people of color (as opposed to the orderly White rural population and White working class) in Lovecraft’s stories are foreign, diseased, and criminal, and they threaten social and cosmic orders as they are in league with a nebulous entity that waits to wreak indescribable havoc. This chapter analyzes three ‘Lovecraftian’ novels published in 2016 - Cassandra Khaw’s Hammers on Bone,Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom, and Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country. These works elucidate the connection of Trump’s 2016 rhetoric in campaign and presidential speeches and the White supremacist imagery used by Lovecraft. In these novels, the racialized poor have a special connection to an astronomical, evil entity à la Lovecraft. As carriers of numinous genes or parasitic entities (literally having ‘an alien within’) they become empowered. They thus occupy a pivotal position in forestalling or bringing about the destruction of societal order; that is, of White supremacy. Exploring the alleged risk posed by this ‘underclass,’ these works seem to foretell current representations of protesters as ‘riotous mobs’ that threaten the body politic Trump sought to make great (and White) again. Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-11-078974-4 SN - 978-3-11-078984-3 SN - 978-3-11-078979-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789799-006 SN - 0340-5435 SP - 113 EP - 131 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Adamik, Verena T1 - Boyle, T.C. T2 - The encyclopedia of contemporary American fiction 1980–2020 N2 - T.C. Boyle, or Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, is probably best known for his 1995 novel Tortilla Curtain , which quickly became a staple of high school and college syllabi. Tortilla Curtain deftly illustrates what Boyle does best: acerbically tracing the irrationality that governs human thought and the resulting contradictory and often unethical behavior (mostly in relation to xenophobia, environmentalism, and the intersections of gender). Despite often casting a critical eye over US American society, Boyle's works are accessible reads with fast-paced and eventful plots. This combination has produced a number of international bestsellers. In fact, Boyle is so popular in Germany that translations of his works have been published before the original versions came out in English. However, his talent for depicting the impotence of reason in the face of base desires, selfishness, group dynamics, and indoctrinated ideologies is also a weakness: at times, Boyle's satire reproduces what it means to criticize, coming close to naturalizing the hedonistic, prejudiced, and emotionally charged behavior of his characters. KW - Boyle, T.C. KW - Amerikanistik KW - US Amerikanische Literatur Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-1-119-43173-2 SN - 978-11-19-43171-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119431732.ecaf0023 PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd. CY - Hoboken, NJ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Agrofylax, Sotirios T1 - Rezension zu: Hildebrandt, Annika: Die Mobilisierung der Poesie. Literatur und Krieg um 1750. - Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019. - ISBN 978-3-11-060947-9 JF - Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts Y1 - 2021 SN - 0722-740X VL - 45 IS - 2 SP - 310 EP - 312 PB - Wallstein CY - Wolfenbüttel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Agrofylax, Sotirios T1 - Weibliches Kriegs- oder Friedenstheater? BT - Lee Teodora Gušić’ Arbeit an der weiblichen Theaterstimme zu den postjugoslawischen Kriegen JF - literaturkritik.de Y1 - 2021 UR - https://literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=28482 SN - 1437-9309 SN - 1437-9317 VL - 24 IS - 1 PB - LiteraturWissenschaft.de CY - Marburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Albertini, Francesca Yardenit T1 - Peace and war in Moses Maimonides and Immanuel Kant a comparative study JF - The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy N2 - Francesca Y. Albertini (1974-2011) compares Maimonides' idea of peace, as developed in MT Sefer shofetim (Book of Judges), with Kant's work on the notion of "eternal peace" (Zum ewigen Frieden). Both authors develop a historical vision pointed against the use of force and war in light of a framework not limited by historical time (messianic age, eternity). Despite all differences in method and historical context, the authors agree on the notion that universal ethics provides the basis of a determination of right grounded in the will. Maimonides' universal messianism as well as Kant's universal history emphasize the pivotal role and decisive responsibility of the human being in realizing, through reason, the reign of peace and prosperity on earth first envisioned by the biblical prophets. These utopias continue to challenge us, especially in this day and age. KW - Kant KW - Maimonides KW - peace KW - Alfarabi (al-Farabi) KW - universal messianism Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/1477285X-12341238 SN - 1053-699X VL - 20 IS - 2 SP - 183 EP - 198 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - GEN A1 - Altieri, Riccardo T1 - Paul Frölich, American exile, and communist discourse about the Russian revolution T2 - American Communist History T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 144 Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413040 ER - TY - THES A1 - Andermann, Kerstin T1 - Spielräume der Erfahrung : Kritik der transzendentalen Konstitution bei Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze und Schmitz T2 - Phänomenologische Untersuchungen Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-3-7705-4453-0 VL - 25 PB - Fink CY - München ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Asche, Matthias ED - Asche, Matthias ED - Hesse, Christian ED - Holý, Martin T1 - Das höhere Bildungswesen der Schweiz in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit : Institutionen und Formen der Peregrinatio academica (Einführungsvortrag) BT - Studentenmigration, Gelehrtennetzwerke und Buchkultur : Basel und die Schweizer Hohen Schulen in ihren Bezügen zu (Ost)Mitteleuropa vom 15. bis 17. Jahrhundert T2 - H-Soz-Kult : Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften N2 - Er stellte die Entwicklung der Universität Basel an der Schwelle vom Mittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit bis zum 17. Jahrhundert dar und unterstrich ihre Bedeutung für die nichtkatholischen Studenten aus den Nachbarländern nach dem Beginn der Reformation: Die hiesige Universität war nämlich zudem ein idealer Ort, an dem sich sowohl frankophone Studenten als auch reformierte Studenten aus Frankreich, dem Herzogtum Savoyen-Piemont, England oder Italien als Glaubensflüchtlinge einschreiben konnten. Basel diente zudem als Transituniversität bei Bildungsreisen durch Europa im Rahmen der peregrinatio academica. Neben Basel widmete sich Asche auch den reformierten Hohen Schulen bzw. Akademien in Zürich, Bern, Lausanne und Genf sowie deren Stellung im schweizerischen Bildungssystem der Frühen Neuzeit; er erklärte deren Funktion (vornehmlich für die Pfarrerausbildung) sowie die regionale und soziale Herkunft der dortigen Studentenschaft, die ebenfalls teilweise aus dem Ausland stammte. Y1 - 2022 SN - 2196-5307 PB - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin CY - Berlin ER - TY - THES A1 - Berndt, Juliane T1 - Die Restitution des Ullstein-Verlags (1945-52) BT - Remigration, Ränke, Rückgabe ; der steinige Weg einer Berliner Traditionsfirma T2 - Europäisch-jüdische Studien : Beiträge ; 50 KW - Nachkriegszeit KW - Restitution KW - Reeducation KW - Besatzungspolitik Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-11-062979-8 SN - 978-3-11-063050-3 SN - 978-3-11-063100-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110630503-201 PB - De Gruyter Oldenbourg CY - Berlin ER -