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Sonic Stagings of U.S. Postwar Audiopoetry : Practices, Configurations, and Contexts of Poetry on Sound Carriers (c. 1950s-1980s) Stackmann, Ulla,
No full textPracticing and Placing Imaginaries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptual Ideas, and Case Studies
Get PDFThe contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies), complementing practice and theoretical approaches with interdisciplinary insights into the entanglements of doings and imaginations. They build a bridge between sociological research and cultural studies and thus challenge perspectives which characterize imagining as an individual and solitary activity. Rather, imagining is situated and shaped by its placement in specific contexts and communities
Practicing and Placing Imaginaries
Get PDFThe contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies), complementing practice and theoretical approaches with interdisciplinary insights into the entanglements of doings and imaginations. They build a bridge between sociological research and cultural studies and thus challenge perspectives which characterize imagining as an individual and solitary activity. Rather, imagining is situated and shaped by its placement in specific contexts and communities
Practicing and Placing Imaginaries
No full textThe contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies), complementing practice and theoretical approaches with interdisciplinary insights into the entanglements of doings and imaginations. They build a bridge between sociological research and cultural studies and thus challenge perspectives which characterize imagining as an individual and solitary activity. Rather, imagining is situated and shaped by its placement in specific contexts and communities
Antiblackness and Humanism : toward a Re-Thinking of Interspecies Relations
No full textIn their latest works, poet and scholar Joshua Bennett and literary scholarZakiyyah Iman Jackson critique the animal-human distinction drawing on per-spectives from African diasporic literature. InBecoming Human: Matter andMeaning in an Antiblack World, Jackson explores the writings of Toni Morrison(Beloved), Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring), Octavia Butler (“Bloodchild”)and Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals) as well as the visual works of New York-based Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu. The goal of Jackson’s study is to“generateunruly conceptions of being and materiality”(p.1). In the course of this project,Jackson succeeds in drawing a complex, multi-layered picture of how antiblackdiscourses shape our understanding of humans and animals. In the same vein,Bennett stipulates inBeing Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Manthat African diasporic writing carves out new modes of comprehending animalityand humanity.“What does the Animal promise? Nothing short of another cosmos.A radically different set of relations is possible,”he emphasizes (p.4). Referringto the works of Richard Wright (Native Son), Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon),Zora Neil Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God), Jesmyn Ward (Salvage theBones) and other authors and texts complementing the core corpus, he singles outliterary figurations of animals to explore this cosmos
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Kritik patriarchaler Macht und Sprache in Kathy Ackers Blood and Guts in High School
Get PDFDie US-Amerikanerin Kathy Acker gilt als wegweisende Autorin für die radikal dekonstruktivistische Literatur. Besonders ihr 1984 publizierter Roman 'Blood and Guts in High School' wird vielfach als feministisches Manifest gefeiert. In dem Roman stellt Acker die gewaltsame Unterdrückung von Frauen auf radikalste Weise dar und bespricht Themen wie Vergewaltigung, sexuellen Missbrauch und soziale Ungleichheit. Unser Beitrag untersucht die literarischen Mittel, derer sich Acker in dem Roman bedient, um eine tiefgreifende Kritik an gesellschaftlichen Strukturen zu entwerfen, insbesondere im Hinblick auf das patriarchale Sprachsystem und den literarischen Kanon. Die Analyse des Textes zieht die Frage nach sich, inwiefern drastische Darstellungsformen und eine avantgardistische Ästhetik Gefahr laufen, den potenziell subversiven Inhalt des Romans als Gewaltexzess erscheinen zu lassen, wie zum Beispiel das Verbot des Romans in der BRD 1985 belegt.The American author Kathy Acker is considered to have pioneered radical deconstructive literature. Her novel 'Blood and Guts in High School', published in 1984, is celebrated by many as a feminist manifesto. Acker depicts the violent suppression of women in the most radical way and addresses issues such as rape, sexual abuse and social inequality in the novel. This article examines the literary devices Acker uses to delineate a profound critique of social structures, in particular regarding the patriarchal language system and the literary canon. Our analysis investigates to what extent the drastic forms of representation and the avant-garde aesthetics in this novel run the risk of turning its potentially subversive content into violent excesses, as is evidenced in, for example, the novel being banned in West Germany in 1985
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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