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Revolutionary subjects : German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America / by Jamie H. Trnka.
"Revolutionary Subjects demonstrates that East and West German literary interests in Latin America coincided with debates about the political relevance of literature in the Cold War. Through a combination of close reading, contextual analysis, and careful theoretical work, Trnka examines textual instances of aesthetic solidarity, which, she argues, anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global"-- Provided by publisher
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- ISBN: 3110376555
- ISBN: 9783110376555
- ISBN: 9783110392883
- ISBN: 3110392887
- ISBN: 3110553031
- ISBN: 9783110553031
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages .)
- Publisher: Berlin ; De Gruyter, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Geoculture, Solidarity, and Textual Politics in East and West German Writings about Latin America; Comparative and interdisciplinary contexts; Literature and politics in divided Germany; Material and rhetorical contexts for imagining Latin America; Theoretical contexts: the emergence of Cold War transnationalisms, postcolonial studies, and area studies; Imagining the Third World in German cultural studies; Verdichtung and the emergence of aesthetic solidarity. Chapter 2. The Translator's Ghosts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Latin American Compromiso in Kursbuch and The Habana InquiryCharting a new course for literature; Common places; The Habana Inquiry; Translating genre: testimonio in conversation with a resurgent documentarism; Counterrevolutionary zones of equivalence; Refusing to translate; Translating cultural concepts; Translating discursive systems; Translation and comparison; Conclusions; Chapter 3. Alternative Internationalisms and Literary Historical Inversions: Volker Braun's Guevara or the Sun State. State solidarity and humanist patrimonyExpressionist redux: the New Man and the production of socialism in Volker Braun; Productive contradictions with Latin American Marxisms; Transcontextual interruptions; Unforgettable guerrillera; Authoring the New Man; Conclusions; Chapter 4. The Task of Decolonial Thinking: Second World Authorship in Heiner M©ơller's The Task; The theaterbody and its subjects; Latin America and the Caribbean at the intersection of revolutionary histories; Commentary and relational reading; The Second World intellectual and writing from the middle. Chapter 5. A Rhetoric of Walking Around: F.C. Delius's AdenauerplatzA new political realism?; From trope to rhetoric, from internationalist to transnational antifascist solidarities; "Hinter dem Faschismus steckt das Kapital ... "; Transnational walking around and the globalization of fascist memories; Solidary sentiments; Conclusions; Chapter 6. The Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity; Aesthetics, solidarity, and the political; Limits; Appendix. "Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda, with a translation by Donald D. Walsh; Archival Collections; Works Cited; Index. |
| Language Note: | In English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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