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Revolutionary Subjects : German Literatures and the Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity with Latin America / Jamie H. Trnka.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ; 16Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110376227
  • 9783110392883
  • 9783110376555
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 830.9/3588 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Geoculture, Solidarity, and Textual Politics in East and West German Writings about Latin America -- Chapter 2. The Translator’s Ghosts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Latin American Compromiso in Kursbuch and The Habana Inquiry -- Chapter 3. Alternative Internationalisms and Literary Historical Inversions: Volker Braun’s Guevara or the Sun State -- Chapter 4. The Task of Decolonial Thinking: Second World Authorship in Heiner Müller’s The Task -- Chapter 5. A Rhetoric of Walking Around: F.C. Delius’s Adenauerplatz -- Chapter 6. The Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity -- Appendix: “Walking Around” by Pablo Neruda, with a translation by Donald D. Walsh¹ -- Archival Collections -- Works Cited -- Index
Dissertation note: Diss. Cornell University 2007. Summary: Revolutionary Subjects explores the literary and cultural significance of Cold War solidarities and offers insight into a substantial and under-analyzed body of German literature concerned with Latin American thought and action. It shows how literary interest in Latin America was vital for understanding oppositional agency and engaged literature in East and West Germany, where authors developed aesthetic solidarities that anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global. Through a combination of close readings, contextual analysis, and careful theoretical work, Revolutionary Subjects traces the historicity and contingency of aesthetic practices, as well as the geocultural grounds against which they unfolded, in case studies of Volker Braun, F.C. Delius, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Heiner Müller. The book’s cultural and comparative approach offers an antidote to imprecise engagements with the transnational, historicizing critical impulses that accompany the production of disciplinary boundaries. It paves the way for more reflexive debate on the content and method of German Studies as part of a broader landscape of world literature, comparative literature and Latin American Studies.
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Diss. Cornell University 2007.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Geoculture, Solidarity, and Textual Politics in East and West German Writings about Latin America -- Chapter 2. The Translator’s Ghosts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Latin American Compromiso in Kursbuch and The Habana Inquiry -- Chapter 3. Alternative Internationalisms and Literary Historical Inversions: Volker Braun’s Guevara or the Sun State -- Chapter 4. The Task of Decolonial Thinking: Second World Authorship in Heiner Müller’s The Task -- Chapter 5. A Rhetoric of Walking Around: F.C. Delius’s Adenauerplatz -- Chapter 6. The Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity -- Appendix: “Walking Around” by Pablo Neruda, with a translation by Donald D. Walsh¹ -- Archival Collections -- Works Cited -- Index

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Revolutionary Subjects explores the literary and cultural significance of Cold War solidarities and offers insight into a substantial and under-analyzed body of German literature concerned with Latin American thought and action. It shows how literary interest in Latin America was vital for understanding oppositional agency and engaged literature in East and West Germany, where authors developed aesthetic solidarities that anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global. Through a combination of close readings, contextual analysis, and careful theoretical work, Revolutionary Subjects traces the historicity and contingency of aesthetic practices, as well as the geocultural grounds against which they unfolded, in case studies of Volker Braun, F.C. Delius, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Heiner Müller. The book’s cultural and comparative approach offers an antidote to imprecise engagements with the transnational, historicizing critical impulses that accompany the production of disciplinary boundaries. It paves the way for more reflexive debate on the content and method of German Studies as part of a broader landscape of world literature, comparative literature and Latin American Studies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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