TY - THES A1 - Krause, Michael T1 - Digital surveillance fiction BT - dataveillance in contemporary science fiction Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-86938-154-1 PB - AVINUS CY - Hamburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk A1 - Raja, Ira A1 - Shaswati, Mazumdar T1 - Postcolonial world literature BT - Narration, translation, imagination JF - Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology N2 - Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the ‘world’ of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world – whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization – cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe’s colonial expansion. While we deem this critical perspective indispensable, we simultaneously maintain that to reduce ‘the world’ to the world-making impact of capital, colonialism, and patriarchy paints an overly deterministic picture that runs the risk of unwittingly reproducing precisely that dominant ‘oneworldness’ that it aims to critique. Moreover, the mere potentiality of alternative modes of world-making tends to disappear in such a perspective so that the only remaining option to think beyond oneworldness resides in the singularity claim. This insistence on singularity, however, leaves the relatedness of the single units massively underdetermined or denies it altogether. By contrast, we locate world literature in the conflicted space between the imperial imposition of a hierarchically stratified world (to which, as hegemonic forces tell us, ‘there is no alternative’) and the unrealized ‘undivided world’ that multiple minor cosmopolitan projects yet have to win. It is precisely the tension between these ‘two worlds’ that brings into view the crucial centrality not of the nodes in their alleged singularity but their specific relatedness to each other, that both impedes and energizes world literature today and renders it ineluctably postcolonial. KW - Postkoloniale Theorie KW - Weltliteratur KW - Emily Apter KW - oneworldness KW - relationality KW - singularity KW - untranslatability Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513621994707 SN - 0725-5136 VL - 162 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 17 PB - Sage CY - London [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Indian Writing in English and the Discrepant Zones of World Literature JF - Anglia : journal of English philology N2 - For world literature studies, Indian writing in English offers an exceptionally rich and variegated field of analysis: On the one hand, a set of prominent Indian or diasporic writers accrues substantial literary capital through metropolitan review circuits and award systems and thus maintains the high international visibility that Indian writing in English has acquired ever since the early 1980s. Addressing a readership that spans countries and continents, this kind of writing functions as a viable tributary to world literature. On the other hand, a new boom of Indian mass fiction in English has emerged that, while targeting a strictly domestic audience, is always already implicated in the dynamics of world literature as well, albeit in a very different way: As they deploy, appropriate and adopt a wide range of globally available templates of popular genres, these texts have globality inscribed into their very textures even if they do not circulate internationally. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2017-0008 SN - 0340-5222 SN - 1865-8938 VL - 135 IS - 1 SP - 122 EP - 139 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Layer after Layer BT - aerial roots and routes of translation JF - Thesis Eleven N2 - When the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in South London were opened to the general public in the 1840s, they were presented as a ‘world text’: a collection of flora from all over the world, with the spectacular tropical (read: colonial) specimens taking centre stage as indexes of Britain’s imperial supremacy. However, the one exotic plant species that preoccupied the British cultural imagination more than any other remained conspicuously absent from the collection: the banyan tree, whose non-transferability left a significant gap in the ‘text’ of the garden, thereby effectively puncturing the illusion of comprehensive global command that underpins the biopolitical designs of what Richard Grove has aptly dubbed ‘green imperialism’. This article demonstrates how, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the banyan tree became an object of fascination and admiration for British scientists, painters, writers and photographers precisely because of its obstinate non-availability to colonial control and visual or even conceptual representability. KW - banyan KW - colonial botany KW - historical nature KW - Kew Gardens KW - translation Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513621990772 SN - 0725-5136 VL - 162 IS - 1 SP - 33 EP - 45 PB - Sage CY - Melbourne ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Being Taught Something World-Sized BT - 'The Detainee's Tale as Told to Ali Smith and the Work of World Literature T2 - The Work of World Literature N2 - This paper reads ‘The Detainee’s Tale as told to Ali Smith’ (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith’s story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient’s openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith’s account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading. KW - Ali Smith KW - anagogy KW - ethics KW - Refugee Tales KW - singularity KW - world literature Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-96558-011-4 SN - 978-3-96558-012-1 SN - 978-3-96558-013-8 SN - 978-3-96558-022-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_07 SN - 2627-728X SN - 2627-731X VL - 2021 SP - 149 EP - 172 PB - ICI Berlin Press CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Offizier, Frederike T1 - Death of the other Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-631-63614 ER - TY - THES A1 - Offizier, Frederike T1 - The biosecurity individual BT - a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security, and identity T2 - American Culture Studies N2 - 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. Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023121004164930640876 SN - 978-3-8376-7145-2 SN - 978-3-8394-7145-6 SN - 2747-4380 SN - 2747-4372 VL - 43 PB - Transcript CY - Bielefeld 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 - JOUR A1 - Heidt, Irene A1 - Freitag-Hild, Britta ED - Römhild, Ricardo ED - Marxl, Anika ED - Matz, Frauke ED - Siepmann, Philipp T1 - Critical global citizenship education in the EFL classroom BT - developing critical literacy and symbolic competence JF - Rethinking Cultural Learning: Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education N2 - The objective of the present paper is to explore the potentials and challenges inherent in con- ceptualizations of global citizenship education (GCE) in the context of foreign language edu- cation. Specifically, we argue for a critical approach to GCE that emphasizes the significance of language as symbolic power by drawing on the concepts of critical literacy (e.g., Freire 1983; Janks 2014) and symbolic competence (Kramsch 2006; 2011; 2021). To illustrate the necessity of such a critical approach to GCE, we critically analyze teaching materials designed for the English language classroom as provided by the curriculum framework (KMK/ BMZ 2016). The analysis reveals how reliance on dominant Western liberal and neoliberal epistemologies, norms, and discourses might inadvertently reinforce the very inequalities that GCE actually seeks to address. By foregrounding the relationship between language, symbolic power, and GCE, we further redesign these teaching materials and incorporate pedagogical and methodological principles which are in line with a critical literacy and symbolic competence. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-98940-005-4 SP - 99 EP - 114 PB - Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier CY - Trier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Heidt, Irene T1 - Fostering symbolic competence in the age of twitter politics BT - a teaching unit on linguistic and political emergencies for learners of english JF - Anglistik : international journal of English studies Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2022/3/8 SN - 0947-0034 SN - 2625-2147 VL - 33 IS - 3 SP - 75 EP - 89 PB - Universitätsverlag Winter CY - Heidelberg ER -