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Dada Historiography; or, How to End One’s Work? The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 André Flicker
No other early twentieth-century avant-garde project and aesthetic movement occupied itself with its history and legacy to such a large extent as Dada. This urge to write their history is one of Da...
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“Der Tod in Venedig” und die Grenzgänge des Erzählens: Interkulturelle Analysen The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Tobias Boes
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 99, No. 1, 2024)
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Canonical Pressures: German Literature and its Voices of Difference The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Tanvi Solanki
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 99, No. 1, 2024)
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World Literature and Defeat The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Daniel Purdy
This essay underscores the importance of seeking refuge in literary aesthetics by arguing that Goethe’s concept of world literature was formulated in compensation for the shock of military defeat, ...
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Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Jacob Hermant
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 99, No. 1, 2024)
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Sources and Methods: Theory of Canon and the Possibilities of Disciplinary Practice in German Studies The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Kirk Wetters
Starting from interdisciplinary theories of canon, this essay zooms in on literary canons and the canon of the field of German Studies in particular. In comparison to many kinds of canons, academic...
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A Performance for Everyone? Othering and the Politics of Language in J.M.R. Lenz’s Die Soldaten (1776) The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Mary Helen Dupree
While J.M.R. Lenz has historically been considered something of an outsider in the eighteenth-century German canon, his play Die Soldaten has attracted interest from contemporary scholars due to it...
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Mendelssohn’s Upending of Canonical Appropriation The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Willi Goetschel
Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem or on Religious Power and Judaism cites a passage from the Psalms as prooftext to demonstrate that one of the key canonical texts—the literary corpus serving as the reposito...
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Hölderlin’s Heraclitean Canon The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Anthony Curtis Adler
This essay argues that Hölderlin develops a new understanding of canonicity by way of related concepts such as law, measure, and harmony. The final version of his novel Hyperion “bends” the straigh...
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A Reading of Friedrich A. Kittler’s Reading of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Der Goldene Topf” (The Golden Pot) in Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900 (Discourse Networks 1800/1900) The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Tanvi Solanki
Friedrich A. Kittler’s canonical Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900 (Discourse Networks 1800/1900) threatened the very idea of the canonicity of German literature. Yet Kittler’s readings systematically d...
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The Queer Voice and Gaze in Eichendorff’s Das Marmorbild The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 J. Forrest Finch
This essay investigates the alliance of ocularcentrism and cis-heteronormativity as canonical formations in Joseph von Eichendorff’s 1819 novella Das Marmorbild, which enact a process of masculine ...
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Stifter’s Natives and Wandering Exotica: The Circulating Canons of “Die Narrenburg” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Catriona MacLeod
Against the backdrop of readings of Adalbert Stifter’s 1844 Studienfassung of “Die Narrenburg” as an expression either of orientalist fantasy or of Austrian inner colonialism, this article traces t...
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Schreibweisen des Exotismus. Sinnesfülle und Fremdheit in der westeuropäischen Literatur vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Thomas Schwarz
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 99, No. 1, 2024)
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Nature, Condensed: Reading Paul Celan, Esther Kinsky, and Theodor W. Adorno in the Anthropocene The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Natalie Lozinski-Veach
This essay explores a particular kind of German postwar aesthetics as a framework for thinking through the conceptual challenges of the Anthropocene. Focusing on the relationship between nature and...
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Protest and the Opacity of Literature: James Baldwin and Paul Celan The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Matthew Johnson
This article analyzes Paul Celan’s translation of James Baldwin’s “Everybody’s Protest Novel” and considers the connections between the poetics of these two writers. In addition to their shared pre...
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Christian Petzold: Interviews The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Olivia Landry
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 4, 2023)
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Lyrical Touch: Paul Celan and Yunus Emre in the Poetry of Zafer Şenocak The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Kristin Dickinson
This article reads Zafer Şenocak’s German- and Turkish-language poetry as a multifaceted site of relation, within which the themes and concerns of Paul Celan and Yunus Emre’s poetry come to touch. ...
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Reading Celan Today The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Natalie Lozinski-Veach, Jason Groves
The recent venerations of Paul Celan on the occasion of his centenary invite further reflection on how his poems reach across time. As immersed as they are in their own here and now, Celan’s poems ...
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“Wutpilger-Streifzüge.” Celans Wörter, aus dem Netz gefischt The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Barbara Wiedemann
Paul Celan is present on the Internet not only where knowledge of his work might still be expected—in poetry, music, and visual art. Celan references can also be found in song lyrics and album titl...
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Low Tide, Black Shoals: Toward Offshore Formations in Celan Studies The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Jason Groves
While Paul Celan’s lyrical commemoration of the Holocaust has been recognized for its multidirectionality, commentators have not acknowledged his engagement with other colonial and imperial histori...
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Tales That Touch: Migration, Translation, and Temporality in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Culture The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Didem Uca
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 4, 2023)
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German Philosophy and the First World War The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 André Flicker
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 4, 2023)
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Über lyrische Sprache, Gedenken und historische Erfahrung: Paul Celan, gelesen mit José F.A. Oliver The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Linda Maeding
Paul Celan is a central figure in the work of José F.A. Oliver, a multilingual poet who emerged from the context of the so-called migration literature. This article shows the extent to which Celan ...
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Remembrance Undisciplined: Reading Paul Celan with Max Czollek The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Simone Stirner
Taking Walter Benjamin’s critique of history’s “disciplining” nature as a starting point, this article reads Paul Celan in dialogue with the contemporary German-Jewish poet, playwright, and essayis...
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The Entanglements of Matter, Mind, and Meaning: Novalis’s “Elastic Mode of Thinking” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Meryem Deniz
Abstract This article explores the methodological, aesthetic, and ecological implications of Novalis’s dynamic conception of matter, called “original elastic fluid.” By elucidating a set of this fluid’s generative and performative capacities, Novalis explains the non-teleological and contingent emergence of natural objects and organic forms as well as mental figures and poetic genres. This article
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Critique as Counterproduction: Repair Work in Alexander Kluge The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Jörg Kreienbrock
Abstract This essay investigates the notion of counterproduction in the writings of Alexander Kluge. In Kongs große Stunde (2015), Kluge identifies counterproduction as an essentially reparative practice. It combines a constructive ethos of care with the deconstructive attitude of critique. In this sense, repair work as counterproduction offers a model to overcome the age-old dichotomies of theory
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“”? Texting Scenes: Digital Schreibzeug & Emoji Activism The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Sophie Johanna Schweiger
Abstract Emoji characters have become indispensable elements of our communication practice. Generally used to express moods or gestures, to clarify or obscure meaning, and to boost a message’s illocutionary force, emoji have expanded our communicative options considerably. And while they have also doubtlessly aided in facilitating international and cross-cultural communication, emoji’s declared goal
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Kracauer, Bachofen, and the “bedeutungsleere Naturfundament” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Carl Gelderloos
Abstract In his 1927 essay “Die Photographie,” Siegfried Kracauer attributes to photography the ability to intervene in the dialectic, as old as history itself, between nature and thought. Paradoxically, precisely because photography can only reproduce meaningless fragments of the visible world in its attempt to offer a total, gapless coverage of reality, its failure can render the process of signification
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Hannah Arendt’s Transatlantic Walter Benjamin The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Cosima Mattner
Abstract In 1968, twenty-eight years after Walter Benjamin’s death, Hannah Arendt published a literary portrait of Benjamin that questioned the Frankfurt School’s editorial infringements on and interpretive appropriations of Benjamin’s work. In recent discussions of her intervention in the debate that had escalated upon Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem’s publication of Benjamin’s letters in 1966
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Aby Warburg. Briefe in 2 Bänden, by Michael Diers and Steffen Haug, eds.Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, 1430 pp. b/w ill., $103.99. ISBN 978-3-11-053369-9 The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Serzenando A. Vieira Neto
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 3, 2023)
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Caroline Duttlinger. Attention & Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, & Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 437 pp., $115. ISBN 978-0-19-285630-2 The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Tyler Schroeder
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 3, 2023)
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Tobias Wilke. Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Tanvi Solanki
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 3, 2023)
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Introduction The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Evelyn Annuß, Fatima Naqvi, Sebastian Kirsch
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 2, 2023)
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Without Beginning or End1 The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Ulrike Haß
Abstract The chorus is not an invention of the theater. From the far-branching rural Dionysias, the chorus once started out, to appear in the Greek poleis in the early fifth century BCE. These new city-states were based on strict binary divisions: polis and oikos, skene and orchestra, protagonist and chorus, man and woman. The missing link in-between these opposites is called cosmos. The chorus, which
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Alienating Choruses in German-speaking Performing Arts The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Evelyn Annuß
Abstract The chorus has become a signature of German-language theater productions since the late 1980s. As a reflexive figure it exposes its linkage to the setting of the scene and the process of figuration. This article discusses the chorus against the backdrop of global societal changes, the specific situatedness of choral theater aesthetics in German history, the environmental epistemic turn in
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Der komische Chor – das Chorische der ‚komischen Person‘ The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Bettine Menke
Abstract While the tragic chorus has drawn much attention and analysis, the comedic chorus has gone largely overlooked in the fields of classical philology, literary studies, philosophy, and theater studies. But the chorus of Greek comedy is distinct from that of tragedy. It is a kind of swarm. It lives on in the comical personage of later comedies, though these presumably have no chorus. The choruses
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Kitchen and Cosmos: Chorus, Gender, and Politics in Aristophanes' Ekklesiazusai (Assembly Women) The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Sebastian Kirsch
Abstract This paper presents a re-reading of Aristophanes’s comedy Ekklesiazusai (Assembly Women). It shows that this play exhibits the aporias of the binary gender order, which evolved in classical fifth-century Athens, along with other dualisms typical of the period, such as the opposition of pólis and oíkos. The paper argues that Aristophanes negotiates these dualisms against the background of changing
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Eco-Szenarien der Finsternis. Chorisches im Anthropozän The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Elisabeth Strowick
Abstract Against the backdrop of approaches that frame the Anthropocene in scenic terms (“Anthropo-scene,” Una Chaudhuri), this paper examines scenic ecologies in Arno Schmidt’s Black Mirrors and Werner Herzog’s Lessons of Darkness. Based on the analysis of the spatio-temporality and agency of Schmidt’s and Herzog’s scenic ecologies, the essay explores the extent to which the chorus facilitates a rethinking
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Antonia Villinger. Dramen der Schwangerschaft. Friedrich Hebbels “Judith”, “Maria Magdalena” und “Genoveva” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Maria Giovanna Campobasso
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 2, 2023)
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Josephine the Singer or A People of Mice The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Michael McGillen
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 2, 2023)
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Goethes Bibliothek. Eine Sammlung und ihre Geschichte The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Dennis Schäfer
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 2, 2023)
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Uncertainty in Early German Romanticism The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Jocelyn Holland, Elizabeth Millán
Abstract This introduction explores how uncertainty was used as a poetic and philosophical tool around 1800. It first sets up the historical context for the appropriation of uncertainty by underscoring the philosophical interest in challenging the foundations of knowledge. It then focuses on German Romanticism, using the writings of Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel as its primary reference point for
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Introduction to “Heine and World Literature” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Willi Goetschel
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 1, 2023)
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Heine and World Literature The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Willi Goetschel
Abstract There seems to be a certain agreement that world literature, as it is handled today, requires attention to the historical and cultural specifics of the context of its production. However, current scholarship continues to fixate on Goethe and the discourse his idea of world literature spawned. Remarkably, Heine’s contemporary critique of the Goethean vision is curiously absent from a debate
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“Die Partei der Blumen und Nachtigallen”: Heine and Herder Between National and World Literature The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Chloe Vaughn
Abstract This essay explores Heinrich Heine’s importance as a thinker of world literature, his indebtedness to the work of Johann Gottfried Herder, and his key departures from the latter. By analyzing Heine’s treatment of various national literatures, the essay demonstrates that his notion of world literature is characterized by an emphasis on borrowing, insertion and translation from one literary
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The Arabic-Spanish-Jewish School of Poets: Heinrich Heine’s “Jehudah Ben Halevy” and World Literature The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Michael Swellander
Abstract This article argues that Heine’s 1851 poem “Jehuda ben Halevy” modifies Goethe’s concept of world literature to make a place within it for the geographically dispersed, multilingual literature of the Jewish diaspora. Heine’s efforts to imagine Jewish literature as world literature resemble those of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement, which made explicit the political implications of Goethean
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Ritter’s Musical Esthetics, Der Freischütz, and the Certainty of Nature in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany1 The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Mark A. Pottinger
Abstract Johann Wilhelm Ritter was a German physicist, philosopher, and chemist, who researched “invisible light” or the area beyond the visible light spectrum. Equal to his scientific interest in invisible light, Ritter was also fascinated with music, most especially the visualization of sound via the vibration plates of Ernst Chladni. This article presents Ritter’s musical esthetics in relation to
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Kleist and the Uncertainty of Things The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Edgar Landgraf
Abstract The appeal of things is that they insinuate a degree of stability, durability, firmness, and a degree of certainty in times of uncertainty. Unlike objects (Gegenstände), things are there even if we—humans who perceive, surround, use them—are not. The article draws on Heidegger’s 1950 essay “The Thing,” which uses the example of a jug, to reflect on Kleist’s things. Kleist’s things are not
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The Aesthetics of Impotentiation in Tieck and Hölderlin The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Gabriel Trop
Abstract This article argues that the works of Ludwig Tieck—specifically the fairy tales collected in Phantasus—and the poems of Friedrich Hölderlin operate according to an aesthetics of impotentiation. Impotentiation designates the coexistence of seemingly opposed operations: on the one hand, the generation of forms that can be developed further in unexpected directions; and on the other hand, impotence
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Mark Christian Thompson. The Critique of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, JR., and Philosophy The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Kwesi Thomas
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 1, 2023)
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Erica Weitzman. At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Ilinca Iurascu
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 1, 2023)
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Dalia Nassar. Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Sigmund Jakob-Michael Stephan
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 98, No. 1, 2023)
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Futur Drei: Queer of Color Presents, Ephemeral Art, and Germany’s Club Scene The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Tom Smith
Abstract The film Futur Drei, directed by Faraz Shariat and released in 2020, offers a theory of the present from queer of color perspectives. It locates queer possibility not only in lost pasts or imagined futures, but in ephemeral acts of creativity in small-town Germany today. The queer present in this understanding is imperfect and ambivalent, full of potential yet limited by structural injustices
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Queer Time in Contemporary German Cinema The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Kyle Frackman, Ervin Malakaj
Abstract Time has been an important analytic category in both queer and cinema studies. The former has considered how normative life structures abide by their own temporal rhythms unaccommodating of queer body-minds. The latter has examined how the constitutive factors of cinematic mediation often draw their esthetic prowess from the manipulation of time. Recent scholarship on queer cinema studies—in
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Temporal Displacement in Ulrike Ottinger’s Films The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Thomas Love
Abstract Whether campy adventure films set in exotic locales, explorations of Berlin subcultures, or experimental travelogs in Asia, the work of German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger is permeated with a sense of being out of synch with the flow of time. Contextualizing her depictions of temporal displacement within German debates about “the synchronicity of the non-synchronous,” I argue that Ottinger resists
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Temporality of Tolerance and Acts of Endurance in Fremde Haut The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Simone Pfleger
Abstract This essay introduces the concept of a temporality of tolerance in Angelina Maccarone’s Fremde Haut (Unveiled, 2005) and investigates how acts of endurance impact the protagonist’s corporeal legibility and sense of belonging. Drawing on concepts of subjectivity and temporality by scholars such as Judith Butler and Elizabeth Povinelli, the analysis investigates how long particular bodies are
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Untimeliness and the Balkan Queer Diaspora in Dennis Todorović’s Sasha The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Ervin Malakaj
Abstract The protagonist in Dennis Todorović’s Sasha (2010) is caught in the midst of competing claims on his future. While his mother ardently nurtures his piano practice, insisting on a career in musical performance in Germany, his father hopes his entire family will return back to their homeland—Montenegro. During his coming out phase, Saša also confronts a mainstream queer culture that does not
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Lesbian Desire and the Jump Cut in Monika Treut’s Von Mädchen und Pferden The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Heidi Schlipphacke
Abstract This essay argues that Monika Treut’s use of the non-conventional editing device of the jump cut in Von Mädchen und Pferden (Of Girls and Horses, 2014) points to the temporality and representational limits of lesbian desire in film. The jump cut calls our attention to time, offering the spectator a (brief) experience of absence. If gazing, as represented by repeated shot/reverse shots, is
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Bettine Menke. Einfälle, Zufälle, Ausfälle: Der Witz Der Sprache The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Erica Weitzman
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 97, No. 4, 2022)
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Lina Užukauskaitė. Das Schöne im Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns: Zur Aktualität Einer Zentralen Ästhetischen Kategorie Nach 1945 The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Gail Newman
Published in The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory (Vol. 97, No. 4, 2022)