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The Crystal Palace and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of Antebellum New York City
No full textThis chapter reads the “Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations” (1853–1854), better known as the “New York Crystal Palace,” as a significant episode in the non-narrative serial form of world’s fairs and argues that the New York Crystal Palace’s mode of transatlantic adaptation makes it structurally similar to the narrative serial genre of city mysteries. Concluding with an analysis of Fifteen Minutes Around New York, George G. Foster’s tourist guide for the fair, this chapter analyzes how the New York Crystal Palace provided new perspectives on the emerging metropolis through a cultural form that was, like the city mystery genre, transnational, popular, and serial
Negotiating Intersex in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
No full textThis essay examines narrative negotiations of intersex in contemporary US science fiction literature. Intersex is understood as a highly contested concept as well as the lived realities of intersex people. The intelligibility of intersex people is constantly negotiated in and through cultural norms and practices, with literature serving as one major cultural playing field of renegotiation. This article seeks to close a perceived gap in the analysis of literary representations of intersex: Discussions so far have focused solely on realist fiction; science fiction has hitherto not been included. I am therefore going to analyze Ursula K. Le Guin’s seminal novel The Left Hand of Darkness in search for instances in which intersex intelligibility is prohibited, interrupted, or challenged in ways distinctive of the novel’s genre. In this contribution, I argue that intersex is a productive, yet previously neglected term of analysis that lays open conceptualizations of sex, gender, and sexuality in Le Guin’s science fiction novel
Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective
No full texthttp://www.asjournal.org/68-2019/contributors-biographical-notes
Flucht – Exil – Migration
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Ceremonial Storytelling: Ritual and Narrative in Post-9/11 US Wars
No full textUS society has controversially debated civil-military relationships and war trauma since the Vietnam War. Civic activists today promote Indigenous warrior traditions as role models for non-Native veteran reintegration and health care. They particularly stress the role of ritual and narrative for civil-military negotiations of war experience and for trauma therapy. Applying a cultural-comparative lens, this book reads non-Native soldiers’ and veterans’ life writing from post-9/11 wars as «ceremonial storytelling.» It analyzes activist academic texts, «milblogs» written in the war zone, as well as «homecoming scenarios.» Soldiers’ and veterans’ interactions with civilians constitute jointly constructed, narrative civic rituals that discuss the meaning of war experience and homecoming.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/6533
Art Museums in US Society
No full textDuring the course of this seminar, we will examine the cultural work of art museums in the US by way of talking about recent issues in US art museums. We will discuss the cultural, societal, and political status of art museums within the US and explore what they do and how they work. Firstly, we will critically engage in the idea of the art museum within Western thought on a theoretical level. Secondly, we will trace the history of the American art museum throughout the 20th and 21st century and discuss different approaches to art presentation and education to contextualize the art museum within US society and explore how it has changed over time. Thirdly, we will look at specific museums and their contexts in New York City, Miami, Chicago, etc. to talk about different aspects of museum practice such as exhibition making, art collecting, civic engagement, urban planning/architecture, and philanthropy. The goal in this course will be to analyze and interrogate factors and features of the US art museums that make them distinctly American. In this way it will also be possible to consider the art museum’s role as a cultural agent involved in broader structural and institutional issues such as knowledge mediation, identity politics, and/or power relations and canonization.
Texts will be made available to students. Active participation is required and expected.
Recommended reading:
McClellan, Andrew. Art Museum from Boullee to Bilbao. U of California P, 2008.
Carbonell, Bettina M. Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts. Blackwell, 2010.Georg-August-UniversitySummer Term 2019Göttinge
Meet the Trumps
No full textThis contribution explores ghostwriting as a cultural practice marked by contradictions. It takes as its example the case of Donald J. Trump’s ghostwritten memoir titled Trump: The Art of the Deal from 1987. Following Trump’s announcement to run for the U.S. presidency in 2016, the ghostwriter of his memoir, Tony Schwartz, publicly announced that the book had not been written by Trump but by him instead, thus contradicting Trump’s claim to the authorship of the book. The debate around this disclosure points to one aspect of contradictions discussed in the chapter: the ghostwriter’s act of contradicting the pact between author and ghostwriter according to which the latter remain in the background. The chapter further highlights how the book itself delineates and mobilizes various dialectical contradictions, arguing that the text straddles various contradictory fault lines concerning the relationship between fact and fiction, the in/authenticity of the content of the book, the in/visibility of its ghostwriter, and the power/lessness of both author and ghostwriter in the cultural field. Hence it is argued that the practice of ghostwriting is a paradigmatic case of deploying contradictions as a constitutive element of (American) literature and cultures and their theorization
