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Revolutionary subjects : German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America /
"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 textua...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
2015.
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| Colección: | Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ;
v. 16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.