@misc{Pflaumer2023, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Pflaumer, Valerie}, title = {Haunted houses, haunted selves - feminist readings of uncanny domesticity}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-57566}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-575664}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {71}, year = {2023}, abstract = {The aesthetic phenomenon of the uncanny in literature and art is a spatial and gendered aesthetic concept, which is expressed in the spatial characteristics of a literary or photographic narrative. The intention of this thesis is to evaluate the entanglement of the uncanny, space, domesticity and femininity in the context of Gothic literature and photography. These four objects can only be read in their interplay with each other and how they each function as structural principles in the framework of Gothic fiction and photography. The literary texts, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892) and Shirley Jackson's "The Lovely House" (1950) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959) as well as Francesca Woodman's self-portraits that will be discussed further share one particular quality; they use the haunted house motif to express the protagonist's psychological state by transferring mental hauntings onto the narrative's spatial layer. The establishment of a connection between the concepts at hand, the uncanny, domesticity, spatiality and femininity, is the basis for the first half of the thesis. What follows is an overview of how domestic politics and gendered perceptions of and behaviors in spaces are expressed in the Gothic mode in particular. In the literary analysis two ways in which the Freudian uncanny constitutes itself in the haunted house narrative, first the house as the site of repetition and second the house as a stand-in for the maternal body, are examined. Drawing from Gernot B{\"o}hme's and Martina L{\"o}w's theoretic work on space and atmosphere the thesis focuses on the different aesthetic strategies that produce the uncanny atmosphere associated with the Gothic haunted house. The female subjects at the narratives' center are in the ambiguous process of disappearing or becoming, this (dis)appearing act is facilitated by their haunted surroundings. In the case of the unnamed narrator in "Wall-Paper" her suppressed rage at her husband is mirrored in the strangled woman trapped inside the yellow wallpaper. Once she recognizes her doppelganger the union of her two selves takes place in the short story's dramatic climax. In Shirley Jackson's literary works the haunted houses, protagonists in themselves, entrap, transform, and ultimately devour their female daughter-victims. The haunted houses are symbols, means and places of the continuous tradition of female entrapment within the domestic sphere, be it as wives, mothers or daughters. In Francesca Woodman's self-portraits the themes of creation/destruction and becoming/disappearing within the ruinous (post)domestic sphere are acted out by the fragmented and blurry female figure who intriguingly oscillates between self-empowerment and submission to destruction.}, language = {en} } @book{CurielMartinez2023, author = {Curiel Mart{\´i}nez, Geishel}, title = {Rumbo a Venecia}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-558-3}, issn = {2629-2548}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-58696}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-586964}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {212}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Esta investigaci{\´o}n explora la representaci{\´o}n de viajes a Venecia en la literatura latinoamericana y de lengua alemana del siglo XX. Aplicando planteamientos te{\´o}ricos de literatura de viaje, se descodifica la estructura m{\´i}tica que subyace en la descripci{\´o}n del desplazamiento hacia la ciudad lacustre. El objetivo es exponer los recursos narrativos y estil{\´i}sticos utilizados para entrelazar este recorrido, en su mayor{\´i}a oblicuo, con la emersi{\´o}n gradual del conflicto de los y las protagonistas. Adem{\´a}s, a partir del estudio comparativo de algunos elementos arquitect{\´o}nicos emblem{\´a}ticos como son los palacios, los puentes y, sobre todo, la conformaci{\´o}n laber{\´i}ntica, se muestran las peculiaridades de la representaci{\´o}n de Venecia en obras de Julieta Campos, Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cort{\´a}zar, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann y Sergio Pitol. Con ello se busca, primeramente, visibilizar el papel de Venecia en la literatura latinoamericana y, segundo, ofrecer nuevas claves de lectura a obras que han sido ampliamente estudiadas, mas no en una confrontaci{\´o}n transareal.}, language = {es} } @misc{Gwozdz2023, author = {Gwozdz, Patricia A.}, title = {Ecce figura}, series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {185}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-58794}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-587943}, pages = {XII, 835}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Wor{\"u}ber wir reden, wenn wir von Figuren reden, ist eine komplexe Fragestellung, die unterschiedliche Disziplinen ber{\"u}hrt. Mit Erich Auerbachs figura/Mimesis-Projekt wurde die interdiszplin{\"a}re Forschung dieses Begriffs initiiert. Ob Literatur-, Bild- oder Wissensgeschichte - die Pr{\"a}senz und Aktualit{\"a}t von figura in der romanistischen und komparatistischen Forschung bezeugt ein anhaltendes Interesse an der Theoriearbeit zwischen Theologie, Philosophie, Literatur- und Kunstwissenschaft. Allerdings fehlt bislang eine grundlegende methodologische Reflexion, die die interdisziplin{\"a}ren Aspekte gleichrangig ber{\"u}cksichtigt und zu einer gemeinsamen Arbeit am Begriff vereinigt. Dieses Vers{\"a}umnis zu beheben, ist Aufgabe der vorliegenden Arbeit. Ausgehend von Erich Auerbach, Walter Benjamin und Hannah Arendt verfolgt die Monographie in vergleichenden Konstellationen von der Antike bis in die Moderne die literatur- und kunsthistorischen, theologischen und philosophischen Spuren von figura, die zu einer Methode der literaturphilosophischen Figuralogie ausgebaut werden. Ecce figura versteht sich als ein Kompendium interdisziplin{\"a}rer Begriffsgeschichte zwischen Literatur, Philosophie und Theologie, das dazu einl{\"a}dt, in neuen Konstellationen gelesen und erweitert zu werden.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Sojka2022, author = {S{\´o}jka, Pia}, title = {Writing travel, writing life}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-537-8}, issn = {2629-2548}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-55879}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-558799}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {319}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The book compares the texts of three Swiss authors: Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Nicolas Bouvier. The focus is on their trip from Gen{\`e}ve to Kabul that Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach made together in 1939/1940 and Nicolas Bouvier 1953/1954 with the artist Thierry Vernet. The comparison shows the strong connection between the journey and life and between ars vivendi and travel literature. This book also gives an overview of and organises the numerous terms, genres, and categories that already exist to describe various travel texts and proposes the new term travelling narration. The travelling narration looks at the text from a narratological perspective that distinguishes the author, narrator, and protagonist within the narration. In the examination, ten motifs could be found to characterise the travelling narration: Culture, Crossing Borders, Freedom, Time and Space, the Aesthetics of Landscapes, Writing and Reading, the Self and/as the Other, Home, Religion and Spirituality as well as the Journey. The importance of each individual motif does not only apply in the 1930s or 1950s but also transmits important findings for living together today and in the future.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Villamizar2022, author = {Villamizar, Natalia}, title = {Heimat}, number = {4}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-530-9}, issn = {2629-2548}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-54108}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-541086}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {191}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Esta investigaci{\´o}n propone un estudio transareal de las series autoficcionales del escritor austriaco Thomas Bernhard y el colombiano Fernando Vallejo, dos autores cuya obra se caracteriza por una dura cr{\´i}tica a sus pa{\´i}ses de origen, a sus Heimaten, pero tambi{\´e}n por un complejo arraigamiento. Los an{\´a}lisis interpretativos demuestran que en Die Autobiographie y El r{\´i}o del tiempo la Heimat se presenta como un constructo que abarca no solamente elementos dichosos, sino que presenta tambi{\´e}n elementos negativos, disolutivos, destructivos, con lo cual ambos autores de distancian de una concepci{\´o}n tradicional de Heimat como territorio necesariamente arm{\´o}nico al que el sujeto se siente positivamente vinculado. En cambio, ella se concibe como un conjunto dis{\´i}mil, frente al cual el sujeto se relaciona, necesariamente, de modo ambivalente y problem{\´a}tico. En ambos autores la narraci{\´o}n literaria se configura como un acto en el que no simplemente se representa esa ambivalencia, sino en el que, sobre todo, se impugnan las formas de hostilidad que le confieren a la Heimat su car{\´a}cter inh{\´o}spito. Para ello, ambos autores recurren a la implementaci{\´o}n de dos recursos fundamentales: la m{\´i}mesis y el movimiento. La investigaci{\´o}n muestra de qu{\´e} manera las obras estudiadas la Heimat se presenta como un espacio de continuos movimientos, intercambios e interacciones, en el que act{\´u}an mecanismos de opresi{\´o}n, pero tambi{\´e}n dispositivos de oposici{\´o}n, pr{\´a}cticas de apertura intersubjetiva y aspiraciones de integraci{\´o}n comunitaria.}, language = {es} } @phdthesis{Bournot2022, author = {Bournot, Estefan{\´i}a}, title = {Giros Topogr{\´a}ficos}, number = {6}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-534-7}, issn = {2629-2548}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-54842}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-548422}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {192}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Giros topogr{\´a}ficos explora las producciones simb{\´o}licas del espacio en una serie de textos narrativos publicados desde el cambio de milenio en Am{\´e}rica Latina. Retomando los planteos te{\´o}ricos del spatial turn y de la geocr{\´i}tica, el estudio aborda las topograf{\´i}as literarias desde cuatro {\´a}ngulos que exceden y transforman los l{\´i}mites territoriales y nacionales: din{\´a}micas de hiperconectividad medi{\´a}tica y movilidad acelerada; genealog{\´i}as afectivas; ecolog{\´i}as urbanas; y representaciones de la alteridad. A partir del an{\´a}lisis de obras de Lina Meruane, Guillermo Fadanelli, Andr{\´e}s Neuman, Andrea Jeftanovic, Sergio Chejfech y Bernardo Carvalho, entre otros, el libro se{\~n}ala los flujos, ambig{\"u}edades y tensiones proyectadas por las nuevas comunidades imaginadas del s.XXI. Con ello, el ensayo busca ofrecer un aporte para repensar el estatus de la literatura latinoamericana en el marco de su globalizaci{\´o}n avanzada y la consecuente consolidaci{\´o}n de espacios de enunciaci{\´o}n translocalizados.}, language = {es} } @misc{Friese2021, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Friese, Ina}, title = {Mariama B{\^a}, eine Autorin zwischen den Welten}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-51520}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-515203}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {64}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The Senegalese author Mariama B{\^a} has written two novels: Une si longue lettre and Un chant {\´e}carlate. In these novels, she addresses the social grievances of the Senegalese population. She was the first female author to bring femininity out of the shadow of male leadership. With the themes of polygamy and the equality of women, she writes two ubiquitously significant novels. This thesis focuses on three motifs for a content literary analysis in order to approach the life circumstances of the fictional characters. It is demonstrated what influence the chosen factors: Suffering, memory and cultural landscapes have on the characters and how they deal with their individual life paths.}, language = {de} } @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{BernaschinaSchuermann2019, author = {Bernaschina Sch{\"u}rmann, Vicente}, title = {{\´A}ngeles que cantan de continuo}, isbn = {978-3-86956-459-3}, issn = {2629-2548}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-42645}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-426450}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {387}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Objeto de esta investigaci{\´o}n es el auge y ca{\´i}da de una legitimaci{\´o}n teol{\´o}gica de la poes{\´i}a que tuvo lugar en el virreinato del Per{\´u} entre fines del siglo XVI y la segunda mitad del siglo XVII. Su punto c{\´u}lmine est{\´a} marcado por el surgimiento de una "Academia Ant{\´a}rtica" en las primeras d{\´e}cadas del siglo XVII, mientras que su fin, se aprecia a fines del mismo siglo, cuando eruditos de las {\´o}rdenes religiosas, especialmente Juan de Espinosa y Medrano en sus textos en defensa de la poes{\´i}a y las ciencias, negaron a la poes{\´i}a cualquier estatuto teol{\´o}gico, sirvi{\´e}ndose sin embargo de ella para escribir sus sermones y textos. A partir del auge y ca{\´i}da de esta legitimaci{\´o}n teol{\´o}gica en el virreinato del Per{\´u}, este estudio muestra la existencia de dos movimientos que forman un quiasmo entre una teologizaci{\´o}n de la poes{\´i}a y una poetizaci{\´o}n de la teolog{\´i}a, en cuyo centro velado se encuentra en disputa el saber te{\´o}rico y pr{\´a}ctico de la poes{\´i}a. Lo que est{\´a} en disputa en este sentido no es la poes{\´i}a, entendida como una cumbre de las bellas letras, sino la posesi{\´o}n leg{\´i}tima de un modo de lectura anal{\´o}gico y tipol{\´o}gico del orden del universo, fundado en las Sagradas Escrituras y en la historia de la salvaci{\´o}n, y un modo po{\´e}tico para doctrinar a todos los miembros de la sociedad virreinal en concordancia con aquel modo de lectura.}, language = {es} } @misc{Ungelenk2019, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Ber{\"u}hrung ber{\"u}hren - Begreifen verboten}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {171}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-47231}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-472313}, pages = {23}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Der Artikel arbeitet an Platons Gastmahl ein semantisches Netz rund um das Konzept des ‚Ber{\"u}hrens' heraus. Dabei bildet das Verb ἅπτομαι ein zentrales Relais, das zwischen dem vieldiskutierten ‚philosophischen Gehalt' des Textes und der in ihrem performativen Beitrag meist untersch{\"a}tzten Rahmenhandlung vermittelt. Im Nachvollzug der Konstellationen des Ber{\"u}hrens zeigt sich, dass dem Ber{\"u}hren, als Ber{\"u}hren, nicht begrifflich beizukommen ist - es entzieht sich dem aneignenden Zugriff. Ber{\"u}hren ist eben nicht Begriff. Deshalb muss sich das Gastmahl der Ber{\"u}hrung auf andere Weise n{\"a}hern, n{\"a}mlich ber{\"u}hrend - wof{\"u}r die narratologische Konstruktion des Textes von entscheidender Wichtigkeit ist. Er praktiziert Philo-Logie, d.h. nutzt die Macht der Worte, die genau daraus entsteht, dass sie in einer sehr pr{\"a}zisen Weise zwischen den Beteiligten aus einer konstitutiven Distanz heraus wirken.}, language = {de} }