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Victim or Perpetrator? Uncovering the Nuances of Perpetrators in Graphic Narratives
Get PDFGraphic narratives about genocide allow for different and unique ways of visualizing and imagining trauma and trauma-induced subjective experiences. In their attempt to initiate active reader participation in filling in the gutters with reader-induced closure, graphic narratives are unique as they work with emotion to mobilize their readers to act. This form of narrative also allows creators to expose the liminality of subject positions more easily. Through an analysis of Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda and Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story, this paper demonstrates that the dimensions of perpetratorhood are far from well-defined and that the perpetrator often resides in the ambiguity of what Primo Levi calls the ‘gray zone.’ This zone describes a middle ground between good and evil which draws attention to complications in how perpetrators are judged as well as how victims are represented. Comics scholar Hillary Chute explains that the power of graphic narratives comes from their ability to “intervene against a culture of invisibility” through the ethical portrayal of trauma. This risk is displayed in the graphic novels Deogratias and Waltz with Bashir as they both centralize characters that expose the hidden nuances of perpetratorhood
Mapping New Paths in the Field of Travel Writing Studies
No full textDie Herausgeber des The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing, Alasdair Pettinger und Tim Youngs, zählen zu den führenden Experten auf dem Forschungsgebiet der Reiseliteratur, das sie maßgeblich mitgestaltet haben. In der vorliegenden Publikation versammeln sie Beiträge, die Schlüsselthemen der Reiseliteratur beleuchten, sowohl neue als auch etablierte Herangehensweisen an den Forschungsgenstand erörtern, und neue Forschungspfade aufzeigen. Die einzelnen Beiträge sind stringent und klar argumentiert und liefern exemplarische Analysen von Primärtexten. Die Vielfalt der untersuchten Reiseliteratur spiegelt die Heterogenität der Gattung wider und macht das Handbuch zu einer abwechslungsreichen Lektüre, sowohl für Einsteiger als auch für diejenigen, die mit dem Forschungsbereich gut vertraut sind.The editors of the The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing, Alasdair Pettinger and Tim Youngs, are leading experts in the field of travel writing. Their newest volume brings together contributions that examine key themes in travel writing, scrutinize novel and established approaches to the genre, and map new paths in the field of travel writing studies. Each individual contribution is persuasively argued and demonstrates its arguments and findings with examples of representative primary texts. The diversity of the travel narratives analyzed in the volume exemplifies the heterogeneity and richness of the genre. This makes for a compelling read for those who are new to the field as well as for those who are acquainted with the study of travel writing
Anti-Racist Alliances against white Domination in the Cultural Sector
No full textIm zweisprachige Sammelband Allianzen. Kritische Praxis an weißen Institutionen reflektieren Künstler_innen, Kurator_innen und Wissenschaftler_innen ihre Zusammenarbeit mit weißen Kultur- und Bildungsinstitutionen. Die Beiträge thematisieren strukturellen Rassismus in den Institutionen und berichten von kritischen künstlerischen Interventionen. Die Publikation entstand im Rahmen des internationalen Theaterprojekts Afropean Mimickry & Mockery am Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main und wird von den Initiator_innen des Projekts herausgegeben. Der Band richtet sich sowohl an eine akademische Leser_innenschaft als auch an Praktiker_innen im Kulturbereich, die sich kritisch mit der kolonialen Kontinuität in den Einrichtungen auseinandersetzen wollen.In the bilingual anthology Allianzen. Kritische Praxis an weißen Institutionen artists, curators, and scholars reflect on their cooperation with white cultural- und educational institutions. The contributions cover structural racism in the institutions and critical artistic interventions. The publication is part of the international theater project Afropean Mimickry & Mockery at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main and is edited by the organizers of the project. The volume addresses an academic audience as well as practitioners in the cultural sectors who want to critically engage with the colonial continuity of their institutions.  
Art and Heritage: Dialogical Intertwining
Get PDFDie vorliegende Rezension analysiert den Band Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces, der den Eingriff der künstlerischen Praxis in Kulturerbestätten deutlich macht. Die verschiedenen Fallstudien geben einen Einblick in die Art und Weise, wie das verbliebene Erbe durch immer neue alternative Geschichten belebt werden kann, wodurch, wie Nick Cass schreibt, "eine zutiefst \u27verwickelte Begegnung\u27 zwischen Besucher, Kunstwerk und Stätte entsteht" (S.185). Diese Rezension hebt das positive Beispiel der interdisziplinären Forschung hervor, die diese Publikation an sich darstellt, indem sie die Grenzen von Disziplinen, Kunst und Erzählformen neu überdenkt.This review analyses the volume Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces, strongly evidencing the intervention of artistic practice in heritage sites. The different case studies give an insight into ways in which remaining heritage can be vivified by always new alternative stories, thereby, quoting Nick Cass, forming "a deeply \u27enmeshed encounter\u27 between visitor, artwork and site (p.185). This review highlights the positive example of the interdisciplinary research this publication is in itself, reconsidering the boundaries of disciplines, art and narrative forms
“I Am Trying to Improve the Care of Women, That Is My Goal.”: In Conversation about Love and Abortion with Giessen-based GP Kristina Hänel
No full textOf Animal Love and Abuse: Exploring Ambivalent Human-Animal Relationships in Tiger King (2020) during the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textShapes on the Horizon: Reading the Pumice Raft and Migration through Agentic Ecologies and Australian Border Control
No full textIn 2019, reports of a raft of pumice adrift in the Pacific Ocean circulated. We track its movement through surveillance technologies — tools of control that buttress turbulent and shifting contemporary borders. Our consideration of the movement of people across porous borders apprehends migratory discourse and critiques framings of abjectness, fear, and colonial reperformance in an Australian context. Security and surveillance, and the littoral composition of Australian borders figure as means of maintaining and reinforcing fixed, terrestrial constructions of sovereignty. Recent border polices involving stratified spaces of offshore detention become bureaucratic and inhumane extensions of the littoral sphere — convergences of the smooth and stratified, that invert, yet reinforce colonial control and persecution. Framed by Deleuzoguattarian notions and our ongoing research project, Ecological Gyre Theory, we see overlaps, collisions, and parallels between the pumice raft as agentic, ecological force, and legacies of invasion and colonisation, reperformed onto people and landscapes. Considering the agentic power of bodies, we read the traversal of the sea by both raft and asylum seekers towards a critique of Australian history and cultural identity. Our critique endorses both a decolonial and New Materialist approach, exploring ecology and being amidst climate collapse and a rapidly changing world
Racial and Social Dimensions of Antiziganism: The Representation of "Gypsies" in Political Theory
No full textWithin antiziganism research, the usage of the term “gypsy” is subject of an ongoing debate. Especially in the context of police work, historians suggest that until the 1920s the image of “gypsies” mainly referred to a social status, whereas today the image is highly racialized. This article challenges the idea of a strict separation of the social and racial dimensions and takes a closer look at the different argumentations of how to rule the interrelated groups of “gypsies” and “vagabonds” in the history of ideas. For this reason, it examines Kant’s statements on “gypsies” in the context of his problematic race theory as well as Marx’s treatment of vagabondage as a social issue, arising with the beginning of manufacturing. With this, the article connects two major discourses in political theory and the history of ideas, one on barbarism/civilization and another on poverty, with the topic of antiziganism and explores the connection of an antiziganist racialization with socioeconomic structures. Moreover, it examines the empirical side of antiziganism in the context of policing until the eighteenth century, looking at English and German legislative sources, and provides an outlook on the underlying social and racial argumentation in current debates on so-called ‘poverty migration’
Make Modernist Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities New
No full textDas Ziel von Modernism, Sex, and Gender von Celia Marshik und Allison Pease ist es, Leser_innen und Forscher_innen in eine Debatte über den Modernismus einzuführen, die sich über ein Jahrhundert erstreckt und in der Sex, Geschlecht und Sexualität eine konstitutive Rolle für den Prozess des Verstehens von Modernismus spielten und spielen. Dabei wird nachgezeichnet, wie die sich wandelnden Vorstellungen von Geschlecht und Sexualität in Verbindung mit der Wiederentdeckung vergessener, meist weiblicher Autor_innen die Entwicklung der Konzeptualisierungen des Modernismus in der Literaturkritik verändert haben − angefangen bei T. S. Eliot und F. R. Leavis über die wegweisenden Studien der zweiten Welle des Feminismus bis hin zu den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten. Eine der größten Errungenschaften von Modernism, Sex and Gender ist die akribische Erfassung des Zusammenhangs der Verschiebungen in der modernistischen wie auch feministischen Kritik, der Queer-Theorie und den Masculinity Studies. Aus einer Vielzahl von Blickwinkeln zeigen all diese, dass Geschlechter und Sexualitäten nicht nur eines der vielen thematischen Interessen der Modernismuskritik, sondern trotz ihrer Veränderungen im Laufe der Jahrzehnte unumgänglich und zentral für die Definition des Modernismus selbst sind.The goal of Modernism, Sex, and Gender by Celia Marshik and Allison Pease is to introduce readers and researchers to a debate about modernism spanning over a century in which sex, gender, and sexuality played and still play a constitutive role in the processes of understanding modernism. It does so by tracing how the changing ideas of gender and sexuality in concatenation with the recovery of forgotten, mostly women, authors altered the course of the conceptualizations of modernism in literary criticism, beginning with T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis, through the landmark studies of the second wave feminism, all the way through to the last two decades. One of the greatest achievements of Modernism, Sex, and Gender is its meticulous recording of the conjunction of shifts in modernist, as well as feminist criticism, queer theory, and masculinity studies, all of which – from a multitude of viewpoints – prove that sexes, genders, and sexualities are not only one of the many thematic interests of modernist criticism, but unavoidable and central to the very definition of modernism, despite its changes during the decades