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Was heißt Berühren Denken?
(2021)
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.
Literaturen der Welt
(2018)
Wovon sprechen wir, wenn wir von Weltliteratur sprechen? Seit seiner goetheschen Prägung hat der Begriff der ‚Weltliteratur‘ immer wieder und auch in jüngerer Zeit eine breite Debatte innerhalb der philologischen Disziplinen erfahren. Dabei ist es spätestens seit Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts nicht mehr ausreichend, einen politischen Schlüsselbegriff in einen „vereinheitlichenden Singular“ zu verpacken: Die Heterogenität eines weltweit sich erstreckenden literarischen Feldes sowie historisch involvierter Mechanismen zumeist europäischer Zentralisierung bleiben nach wie vor unbeachtet. Eine verfestigte Literaturpolitik des Kanonischen suggeriert hier allein schon begrifflich einen exklusiven Deutungsanspruch des Weltliterarischen.
Daher bedarf es einer kritischen Fundierung zugunsten einer pluralisierenden Öffnung der Literaturwissenschaften auf die „Literaturen der Welt“. Der vorliegende Band verhandelt Ansätze, Analysen und Kritikpunkte der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Geschichte, Übersetzungswissenschaft, Soziologie und Genderforschung, die ein solches Unterfangen begleiten und vertiefen.
Die senegalesische Autorin Mariama Bâ verfasste zwei Romane: Une si longue lettre und Un chant écarlate. In diesen Romanen thematisiert sie die gesellschaftlichen Missstände in der senegalesischen Bevölkerung. Als erste weibliche Autorin verschafft sie der Weiblichkeit einen Sprung aus dem Schatten der männlichen Führung. Mit den Themen der Polygamie und der Gleichstellung der Frau verfasst sie zwei allgegenwärtig bedeutsame Romane. Die Arbeit fokussiert drei Motive für eine inhaltliche Literaturanalyse, um sich den Lebensumständen der fiktiven Figuren anzunähern. Es wird nachgewiesen, welchen Einfluss die gewählten Faktoren: Leid, Erinnerung und kulturelle Landschaften auf die Figuren haben und wie sie mit ihrem individuellen Lebensweg umgehen.
„Now is the winter of our discontent | Made glorious summer by this son of York“ – mit diesen Worten öffnet Shakespeares Richard III. Ein einziger Schau- spieler hat die Bühne betreten, beginnt zu reden und setzt so, alleine, das Stück in Gang – ein Novum für Shakespeare. Die frühneuzeitliche Bühne ist (fast) leer, die Zuschauer*innen hängen an den Lippen des Protagonisten, um durch seine Worte in die fiktive Welt des Dramas eingeführt zu werden.
Gleich mit dem ersten Wort versetzt Richard die Zuschauer*innen in eine andere Gegenwart: Fast wie eine hypnotische Anweisung konstituiert dieses „Now“ das Zeit-Raum-Gefüge der englischen Rosenkriege. Sich diesem thea- tralen „Now“ hinzugeben ist die Aufgabe der Zuschauer*innen. Sie sind auf- gerufen, „to forget (however briefly) everything they have experienced before. What matters is this ‚now‘, the hic et nunc of the theatre.“
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).
Longevity narratives
(2018)
The essay looks at longevity narratives as an important configuration of old age, which is closely related to evolutionary theories of ageing. In order to analyse two case studies of longevity published in the early twentieth century, the American psychologist G. Stanley Hall's book Senescence (1922) and the British dramatist Bernard Shaw's play cycle Back to Methuselah (1921), the essay draws on an outline of theories of longevity from the Enlightenment to the present. The analysis of the two case studies illustrates that evolutionary and cultural perspectives on ageing and longevity are ambivalent and problematic. In Hall's and Shaw's texts this is related to a crisis narrative of culture and civilization against which both writers place their specific solutions of individual and species longevity. Whereas Hall employs autobiographical accounts of artists as examples of longevity to strengthen his argument about wise old men as exclusive repositories of knowledge, Shaw in his vision of longevity as an extended form of midlife for both genders encounters the limits of age representation.
Während der hemdsärmelige Reporter lediglich für den Tag schreibt, schafft der Literat Texte für die Ewigkeit. Mit diesem über Jahrhunderte tradierten Klischee brechen zwei Autoren ganz bewusst, die in beiden Bereichen erfolgreich sind: Joseph Roth und Tom Wolfe - in Personalunion Journalisten wie Literaten - hinterfragen den Wertungsunterschied, der gemeinhin zwischen den Bereichen gemacht wird. Fanny Opitz zeichnet die diskursiven Umfelder nach, in denen die Debatte um die Leistung von Journalismus und Literatur breit geführt wurde: im Deutschland der 1920er Jahre im Kontext der gesamtkulturellen Strömung der Neuen Sachlichkeit und im US-amerikanischen New Journalism der 1960er und 1970er Jahre.
Literary criticism, particularly ecocriticism, occupies an uneasy position with regard to activism: reading books (or plays, or poems) seems like a rather leisurely activity to be undertaking if our environment—our planet—is in crisis. And yet, critiquing the narratives that structure worlds and discourses is key to the activities of the (literary) critic in this time of crisis. If this crisis manifests as a ‘crisis of imagination’ (e.g. Ghosh), I argue that this not so much a crisis of the absence of texts that address the environmental disaster, but rather a failure to comprehend the presences of the Anthropocene in the present. To interpret (literary) texts in this framework must entail acknowledging and scrutinising the extent of the incapacity of the privileged reader to comprehend the crisis as presence and present rather than spatially or temporally remote. The readings of the novels Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013) by Waanyi writer Alexis Wright (Australia) trace the uneven presences of Anthropocenes in the present by way of bringing future worlds (The Swan Book) to the contemporary (Carpentaria). In both novels, protagonists must forge survival amongst ruins of the present and future: the depicted worlds, in particular the representations of the disenfranchisement of indigenous inhabitants of the far north of the Australian continent, emerge as a critique of the intersections of capitalist and colonial projects that define modernity and its impact on the global climate.
The Author as Researcher
(2019)
This article proposes a new perspective on avant-garde travel writing through the lens of scientific field work, investigating these new writing techniques in Boris Pil’niak’s expedition prose. In the 1920s, the researching writer represents a hidden, but influential counterpart to the widely propagated figure of the working writer. While the author as producer combines word and deed in an operative act, the author as researcher investigates the production of knowledge. This entails revising the centrality of facts. Literature as artistic research subverts factography by going beyond the horizons of veristic data registration to include uncharted realms and vague possibilities. This exploration leads to specific genres: the author as researcher tries his hand at a kind of laboratory text, a prolific genre at the intersection of testing equipment, recording media, and hypothetical thought. Not confined to a sterile lab, avant-garde writer-researchers, as members of research expeditions, oscillate between their home writing desks and the remote depths of the emerging USSR. At the same time, they explore writing practices situated between data acquisition, sampling, fact-finding, observation and recording.
Trotz unzähliger Forschungsbeiträge zur Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Elfriede Jelinek und dem „Verweigerungskünstler“ Thomas Bernhard wurde den Verbindungslinien beider Autoren noch nie vergleichend nachgegangen. Der Band erschließt zum 30. Todestag Bernhards (u. 15 Jahre Nobelpreis für Jelinek) anschaulich ein breit gefächertes Spektrum an Themen, Perspektiven und Werken beider Schriftsteller im Vergleich. Mit einem Essay von Elfriede Jelinek.
Public Character
(2021)
Reflections of Lusáni Cissé
(2020)
Postcolonial Justice' addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in "utopian ideals" of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world.