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Can a Festschrift be feminist?
No full textDie gesammelten Beiträge der Festschrift für Sabine Hark, deren Engagement für die Queer Studies in Deutschland hier gewürdigt wird, haben sich das ehrgeizige Ziel gesetzt, mit feministischen und queertheoretischen Interventionen (wie es im Untertitel heißt) die Welt neu und gerechter zu denken. Sie liefern die Theoriewerkzeuge, die der Machtsensibilisierung dienen sollen, doch bedienen gleichzeitig – und zwangsläufig – akademische Konventionen, die bereits in festgefahrenen Machtstrukturen stecken. So zeigt dieses Buch einmal mehr, wie schwierig es ist, sich von diesen zu befreien.This essay collection of the genre of a Festschrift for Sabine Hark honors her achievement for the field of Queer Studies in Germany. All contributors write for the ambitious goal to rethink the world as a place of equity and justice with the help of queer-theory and feminist interventions (as the title of the book promises). Thus, the essays provide readers with the tools – theories – that can help to reveal power structures. However, almost unavoidably, this book follows academic conventions that are already embedded in power structures and shows therefore, how difficult it is to dismantle them
“In this space, all the stories are alive.”: In Conversation with Thea Mantwill and Jana Buch about Reading (in) their Literary Exhibition 13 Morgen
Full text linkIn their literary exhibition 13 Morgen, displayed at Kunst im Tunnel (KIT; ‘Art in the tunnel’) in Düsseldorf from March until June 2023, the two authors and artists Thea Mantwill and Jana Buch invited visitors to read at the museum. The exhibition combines literary texts with installation art, visual art, and book design. In conversation, Thea Mantwill and Jana Buch provide detailed insights into what it takes to bring reading to the museum, the reading atmospheres they aim to create, as well as the roles which time, space, and mediality play for 13 Morgen
Dutiful Reader, or...
Full text linkDutiful Reader, or, a Part-Playful, Part-Earnest Experimental Autofiction on the Fascinating and Inexhaustible Subject of How Reading is Variously Learned, Conceptualized and Practiced, which Takes Account of Socio-Political Forces and Historical Change and Whose Mode of Narration is Meandering and Discontinuous, Juxtaposing, neither Arbitrarily nor with Adherence to a Predetermined or Obvious Logic, Autobiographical Fragments, Personal Observations and Reflections, as Well as Extensive Citations Drawn from Diverse Genres and Contexts, to Create a Potentially Unendingly Expanding and Reshaping Narrative-Assemblage Designed to Be Evasive of Prediction and to Generate Increasingly Complex Feedback Loops between the Writerly Text and the Reader, Who Will Encounter during the Course of Her/His/Their Wondrous, Experiential and Transformational Adventure, Inter Alia and in No Particular Sequence, a Child Reading Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat Alone in Bed on a Night His Mother Has Gone Out, Twelve Members of a Jury Reading an Obscene Book Pre-trial in a Room at the Old Bailey, Malcolm X Teaching Himself to Read in Prison by Diligently Copying out the Pages of a Dictionary, Anthropologists, Police Officers and Laypeople Reading Human and Nonhuman Bodies Sometimes with Deadly Consequences, the Second Reading of a Bill in the U.K. House of Commons to Tackle Illiteracy by Introducing a Phonetic Teaching Alphabet, Harlem Renaissance Author Nella Larsen Inspecting the Hands of Children Readers in the Lower East Side Library Where She Worked, and Primary School Teachers Reading Evidence of Terrorism in Poor Spelling, and All of Which Concludes with the Startling Revelation of Why the Cat in the Hat wears White Gloves, Dutiful Reader Having Finally Executed His Duty and Reached the End of the Book
The Domestic Reuse and Repurposing of Packaging: The Materiality of Sustainable Practices
Full text linkThis _Article concentrates on the domestic reuse and repurposing of packaging as a form of material life in Estonian households, and on the material and historical background of reuse and repurposing. The Estonian case reflects the country’s Soviet past, when reuse, repurpose and DIY mentality were an essential part of consumer culture. Reuse and repurposing are creative forms of human engagement with the materiality of packaging, that contribute to the process of becoming new things. Reuse follows the shape and useful functionalities of packaging, and repurposing, which alters the original shape through material transformations, follows the useful potential of the material and its physical properties. People have often thought of packaging not as object, but as potentially useful material, something that is evident in some traditional and vernacular reuse and repurposing methods in which materials and their physical properties have cultural value. From the New Materialist perspective, packaging is mutable material that supports some culturally persistent reuse and repurposing traditions
The Value of Literature: The Discard of Society in Wilhelm Raabe’s Pfisters Mühle: Ein Sommerferienheft
Full text linkThis _Article explores the way in which Wilhelm Raabe’s 1884 novel Pfisters Mühle: Ein Sommerferienheft signals and depicts how society’s transition into industrial capitalist conditions leads to discarding previously valued forms of social and economic arrangement. To demonstrate this process, this paper utilizes aspects of Michael Thompson’s rubbish theory that find resonance in the novel’s depiction, as the system of values that had symbolized a more rural manner of living gradually change from a durable to a rubbish state. In Raabe’s novel, that process is depicted with a sugar factory, Krickerode, polluting the waters upstream from Pfister’s mill. This leads to the closure of the mill, Bertram Pfister’s death, and the way of life they together represent. Evidence for the reconfiguration of societal values according to industrial capitalist priorities (i.e., commodification and capital accumulation) arises when, in reaction to the pollution and its devastating effects, characters shift attention to decision-making on the part of mill’s proprietor, Bertram, using a nascent finance language. Why didn’t he cofound (mitgründen) or purchase stocks (Aktien) in the sugar factory? Why not become a shareholder (Aktionär) and become a partner to progress, rather than, as it is implied, a victim? This paper concludes by examining how the narrator’s account and its transformation into rubbish become its own repository of non-valued value that stands outside the trappings of any given system
Reflecting on 21st Century Literature and Autofiction as Novel Forms of Narration
No full textFiona J. Doloughan hinterfragt die Vermischung von Roman und Fiktion, indem sie die literarischen und philosophischen Werke von vier zeitgenössischen Autor_innen analysiert und argumentiert, dass Memoiren und Autofiktion die Grenze zwischen dem Realen und dem Imaginierten verwischen, was zu einer Verschiebung des aktuellen Trends des Romans führt. Die Relevanz des Buches für die Konstruktion des „Selbst“, die Erforschung der Verbindungen zwischen Literatur und Leben, Kunst und Realität sowie die Frage nach Genre und Geschlecht bieten wertvolle Einsichten.Fiona J. Doloughan interrogates the conflation of fiction and non-fiction by analyzing the literary and philosophical works of four contemporary authors, arguing that memoir and autofiction blur the line between the real and the imagined, resulting in a shift in the current trend of the novel. The study insightfully examines how literature reflects, influences, and interacts with real-life experiences, emotions, and societal issues, and considers how genres are shaped by societal construction of gender roles, expectations, and stereotypes
Spotlighting the Othered: The Formation of Stereotypes in Early Cinema and Their Silent Echoes Today
Full text linkBarbara Tepa Lupacks The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts ist eine umfassende Untersuchung rassistischer und geschlechtsspezifischer Stereotypisierungen im frühen Kino. Mit besonderem Fokus auf Frauenfiguren untersucht Lupack wiederkehrende Klischees und beleuchtet darüber hinaus soziale und kulturelle Kontexte, die diese Darstellungen beeinflusst haben. In acht Kapitel widmet sich Lupack einer bestimmten im Stummfilm unter- oder missrepräsentierten Gruppe.Barbara Tepa Lupack’s The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts is a comprehensive examination of racial, ethnic, and gender stereotypes in early cinema, with a focus on the representation of women. Lupack examines recurring tropes that are prevalent in silent film and sheds light on the broader social and cultural contexts that influenced these representations. The book is organized into eight chapters, each devoted to a specific underrepresented or misrepresented group in silent film
Unraveling the Tapestry of the Ottoman Empire
No full textLosing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire von Mostafa Minawi bietet eine umfassende Neubewertung des Niedergangs des Osmanischen Reiches, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf dem Wirken der arabisch-osmanischen Imperialisten liegt. Die Studie stellt etablierte historiographische Narrative in Frage und betont das proaktive Engagement arabisch-osmanischer Akteure bei der Gestaltung historischer Entwicklungen.Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire by Mostafa Minawi presents a comprehensive reassessment of the decline of the Ottoman Empire, with a particular focus on the agency of Arab-Ottoman imperialists. The study challenges established historiographical narratives and emphasized the proactive engagement of Arab-Ottoman actors in shaping historical trajectories
Inside or Outside the Village? Remembering and Forgetting along Social Borders
Full text linkDie Logiken und Deutungsmuster der Erinnerns- und Vergessensprozesse an NS-Zwangsarbeit werden in der von Angelika Laumer vorgelegten Studie von 2024 empirisch erforscht. Das Untersuchungsgebiet liegt in Niederbayern und beschränkt sich auf den dörflichen Raum. Mit einer Methodenkombination aus qualitativer Interviewführung und Grounded Theory ermittelt sie alltägliche, interaktionsbasierte Erinnerungslogiken, die mithilfe von kulturwissenschaftlichen und (wissens-)soziologischen Gedächtnisbegriffen theoretisch eingeordnet werden.The logic and patterns of interpretation of the processes of remembering and forgetting Nazi forced labor are empirically researched in the 2024 study presented by Angelika Laumer. The study area is located in Bavaria and is restricted to rural areas. Using a combination of qualitative interviews and grounded theory, she identifies everyday, interaction-based logics of remembrance that are theoretically categorized using cultural studies and sociological concepts of memory