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Praxis und Theorie der Prosa
(2021)
Poetik der Verästelung
(2021)
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.
Fontane als Leser
(2020)
The paper investigates Turkish texts from heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany in a pseudo-longitudinal setting, looking at pupils' texts from the 5th, 7th, 10th and 12th grades. Two types of dynamics are identified in the advanced acquisition(1) of Turkish orthography in the heritage context. One is the dynamic of language contact, where in certain areas of the orthography, we find a re-interpretation of Turkish principles according to the German model. However, this changes as the pupils grow up. The second dynamic is the heritage situation. The heritage situation on one side leads to the establishment of new practices, and it also leads to a higher degree of variability of spelling solutions in those areas, where the orthographic system of Turkish poses challenges to every writer, whether monolingual and growing up in Turkey or heritage speaker.
Ways of Worldmaking
(2020)
Sprach‑ und Weltalternativen
(2020)
Multilingualism and the alternate history genre have something in common: both phenomena are based on the construction of alternatives, in the case of multilingualism on the alternatives between different languages and communication systems, and in the case of the alternate history genre on the alternatives between real-world facts and the variation thereof within fictional worlds. This article investigates the interconnections between these two forms of thinking in alternatives by looking specifically at Quentin Tarantino's counterfactual war film Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Christian Kracht's alternate history novel Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (2008). I argue that the consideration of language alternatives forms part of the meta-reflection of the alternate history genre in these works while at the same time opening up a political perspective: in Tarantino's film and Kracht's novel, multilingualism serves as a means for the critique of ideology by rendering palpable the political threats of a worldview based on clear-cut alternatives. In the article's final section, I plead for the establishment of stronger links between the research on literary multilingualism and the theory of fiction.
Reflections of Lusáni Cissé
(2020)
Mi primera lectura académica
(2020)
Feministisches Spekulieren
(2020)
Es ist eines der zentralen feministischen Anliegen, die realitätskonstituierende Wirkmacht von Narrationen für die Vorstellung von Geschichte und Gegenwart ernst zu nehmen. Während ab den 1960er-Jahren Science-Fiction-Autor*innen das Spekulative zum Imaginieren und Fabulieren von Post-race und Post-Gender-Welten nutzten, zeichnet sich seit einiger Zeit eine Veränderung in der feministischen Bezugnahme auf das Spekulative ab. Autor*innen wie Donna J. Haraway, Saidiya Hartman und Anna L. Tsing schlagen das Fabulative und Spekulative für eine andere Sicht auf das Jetzt und Hier vor, um sich der Komplexität von Klimawandel, Anthropozän und Dekolonisierung anzunehmen. Statt eine geschlossene Erzählung über etwas zu erzeugen, zeichnen sich die verschiedenen Unternehmungen feministischen Spekulierens durch besondere Modi der Situierung, Relationalität, Verantwortung und Offenheit aus.
Der Band verfolgt eine Theorie- und Diskursgeschichte feministischer Genealogien, die ein besonderes Augenmerk auf Fragen der spekulativen Narrationen und Zeitlichkeiten legen. Dabei werden Autor*innen wie Luce Irigaray, Ursula K. Le Guin oder Hélène Cixous wieder- und neugelesen sowie Fragen nach dem kritischen Potenzial des Möglichen und Spekulativen für die Gegenwart aufgeworfen.
No Stopping Points Anymore
(2020)
The article focuses on the rebellious subplot of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest that forms around Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, and reads it as a satyr play. Demonstrated is how the Dionysian subplot stands in close analogical connection with the play’s main action. It is also argued that the storyline emphasises a dimension of the play that is of high relevance to the analysis of its metatheatrical implications. The correspondences between the main action and the satyr play elements highlight the important role that intemperance, excess and the suspension of control play in the Shakespearean theatrical setting.
Feministisches Spekulieren
(2020)
"Der Begriff der Spekulation erlebt seit einigen Jahren eine wirkungsmächtige Renaissance. Maßgeblich an dieser Entwicklung beteiligt dürfte die vielbeachtete Initiative einer Gruppe von Philosophen um Quentin Meillassoux sein, aus der das Label ‚Spekulativer Realismus‘ hervorgegangen ist. Im Gegensatz zu hegemonialen Strömungen des philosophischen Diskurses wird innerhalb feministischer Forschung mit dem Begriff der Spekulation jedoch kein ‚vergessenes‘ oder abseitig gelegenes Konzept wiederbelebt: ‚Das Spekulieren‘ steht bereits im Mittelpunkt eines der wichtigsten Texte der feministischen Theoriebildung, es findet sich in Luce Irigarays umfassender Aufarbeitung dessen, was sie „spécula(risa)tion“ nennt. Irigaray findet in Meilensteinen der abendländischen Philosophiegeschichte ein konstitutiv wiederkehrendes Schema der Spekulation, das aufzeigt, dass die Produktion von stabiler Wahrheit auf den Ausschluss eines weiblichen Anderen angewiesen ist. Aus der aktuellen Konjunktur des Spekulationsbegriffs im Feld der feministischen und queeren Theoriebildung ergibt sich ein interessanter Interferenzeffekt: Meillassoux’ Konzept des Spekulierens wechselwirkt mit Irigarays, wobei sich die Phasen von Affirmation und Kritik der Spekulation nicht schlicht auslöschen, sondern, gewissermaßen aus dem schrägen, que(e)ren Winkel zwischen beiden vielmehr ein komplexes Diffraktionsmuster erzeugen. ... "
The article is dedicated to the role of weather in Shakespeare’s tragedies. It traces a dense net of weather instances – stage weather, narrated weather events, weather imagery – throughout his plays, and attempts to reconstruct the weather’s structural implications for the tragedy genre. The way early modern humoral pathology understood the weather’s influence on the humours of the human body – of which Shakespeare’s plays themselves give evidence – provides the background for reconstructing the function of the weather as a source of tragic force. Its turbulence not only infects the characters in the play and thereby drives the plot, but also transgresses the boundaries of the fictional world and affects spectators in the auditorium.
Verhältnis zum Judentum
(2020)
Anna Seghers: Deutsche, Jüdin, Kommunistin, Schriftstellerin, Frau, Mutter. Jedem dieser Worte denke man nach. So viele einander widersprechende, scheinbar einander ausschließende Identitäten, so viele tiefe, schmerzliche Bindungen, so viele Angriffsflächen, so viele Herausforderungen und Bewährungszwänge, so viele Möglichkeiten, verletzt zu werden, ausgesetzt zu sein, bedroht bis zur Todesgefahr.
The political legacy of the Martinican poet, novelist and philosopher Édouard 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).