Repräsentation und Serialität : Bret Easton Ellis

Wie wenige literarische Werke stehen die Romane von Bret Easton Ellis im Zeichen von Serie und Wiederholung. Sie bersten vor Motiv- und Form-Wiederholungen, sind mit ihren intertextuellen Zitaten einerseits Fortsetzungen voneinander, andererseits "Wiederholungen" von Figuren aus den Texten anderer Autoren und Produzenten, sie sind besessen von der Serialität der elektronischen Medien, und - last but not least - sie warten mit einem Serienmörder (in 'American Psycho') und mit Anschlagsserien (in 'Glamorama') auf. Damit überschreiten sie die analytische Unterscheidung der Bereiche des Seriellen, die Christine Blättler in ihrem enzyklopädischen Aufsatz über die Serie aufgestellt hat: Produktion, Präsentation und Narration sind bei Ellis gleichzeitig von Wiederholungen und Serien gekennzeichnet

A "modest monument" awaiting completion : Gianna Zocco talks to Jean-Ulrick Désert and Dorothea Löbbermann about the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial at the Humboldt University of Berlin

In a time when 'internationalization' and 'diversity' have become key areas universities are expected to excel in, it may seem an almost self-evident endeavor to install a memorial for a figure as influential and internationalist as Du Bois, whose connection to the Humboldt University outlasted two ideologically very different political systems. Planned to be positioned in the ground floor of the main building, the memorial, which will start production as soon as the last funding has been secured, reveals an image right at its center that "exist[s] in virtually every student's life and family album, and commonly serve[s] as vehicle[s] of recognition, remembrance and commemoration": the class photograph. What are the main considerations underlying the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial's concept and design? How has it evolved so far? And what can such a memorial realistically achieve

Hartgesotten hegemoniekritisch:Zu Ehren von Gabriele Dietze und Dorothea Dornhof

Feministinnen in Ost und West haben im Kontext marxistischer Diskurse schon früh darauf hingewiesen, dass Geschlecht keineswegs einen untergeordneten &#8216;Nebenwiderspruch‘ zum vermeintlichen Hauptwiderspruch des Klassengegensatzes darstellt. Vielmehr seien soziale Ungleichheitsachsen miteinander verwoben. Zuvor hatten PoC-Feministinnen auf den Zusammenhang von Sexismus und Rassismus aufmerksam gemacht. Im Zuge der ersten und zweiten &#8216;Welle‘ des Feminismus begannen feministische Künstler_innen und Aktivist_innen, transgressive Weiblichkeitsbilder auf der Folie binärer Geschlechterbilderzu entwerfen: Figuren wie die hartgesottene Detektivin, ermächtigende Monster oder kaltblütige Mörderinnen wurden zu notwendigen Gegenstrategien von Dämonisierung, Pathologisierung, Abwertung und Ausblendung des Weiblichen. Die Gender Studies haben Geschlecht als eine „wissensgenerierende und (wissens-)kritische Kategorie“ (Dietze/Hark 2006) in Bewegung definiert. Interventionen von Feministinnen of Color, postkolo- niale Perspektiven und queere Kritiken wiederum haben die Einheitlichkeit der Kategorie Geschlecht fundamental verunsichert. Sie machen für die Gender Studies die Notwendigkeit deutlich, Allianzen mit weiteren macht- und herrschaftskritischen Erkenntnisperspektiven zu suchen, und fordern ein, die eigenen Ausschlüsse und Hegemonietendenzen zu reflektieren. In diesem Zusammenhang spielen künstlerische Praktiken, kulturelle Artefakte und Ästhetiken sowie Popkultur eine entscheidende Rolle für die Sichtbarmachung marginalisierter Positionen. Dies erfordert eine (Selbst-)Kritik „okzidentaler (sexueller) Exzeptionalismen“ (Dietze), die über Geschlechterverhältnisse funktionieren, um den eigenen Kontext als emanzipiert darzustellen. Ebenso wichtig ist eine kritische Reflexion der Kategorie Gender selbst und ihr intersektionales Weiterdenken. Für die Dezentrierung von Macht und Wissen, auch über den akademischen Elfenbeinturm hinaus, sind Kollaborationen und Solidaritäten, strategische Essentialismen, Allianzen und Dialoge mit aktivistischen Kontexten und anderen Diskursen und Öffentlichkeiten unerlässlich.Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2017 13:30 Grußworte Christoph Holzhey, Beate Binder, Christina von Braun 14:00 Panel I: Kompliz_innen/Kollaborationen Claudia Brunner: Feminismus (un)kompliziert Sabine Hark: Was ist Kritik? Uber Dissidenz und Partizipation Jana Husmann: Gender hegemonial – Chancen von Streitkultur Moderation: Stefanie von Schnurbein 16:00 Pause 16:30 Panel II: Pop/Kultur Lisa Kuppler: Hard-Boiled Woman Revisited – Jessica Jones im Marvel Cinematic Universe Julie Miess: All Tomorrow’s Monsters Marietta Kesting: Goldene Zitronen – Race, Klasse und Gender in Beyonces „Lemonade“ Moderation: Eva Boesenberg 18:30 Pause 18:45 Abendvortrag Elahe Haschemi Yekani und Beatrice Michaelis: Partners in Crime. Von queerer Intersektionalität zu ethischem BegehrenHartgesotten hegemoniekritisch: Zu Ehren von Gabriele Dietze und Dorothea Dornhof, symposium, ICI Berlin, 19 January 2017 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e170119

How far is America from here? Selected proceedings of the First World Congress of the International American Studies Association, 22-24 May 2003 /

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance, discursive formations, ideals and ideologies, foundational narratives, political conformities, aberrations, inconsistencies? Where is here—positionality, geographies, spatial compressions, hegemonic and subaltern loci, disciplinary formations, reflexes and reflexivities? These questions are addressed with regard to the multiple Americas within the USA and the bi-continental western hemisphere, as part of and beyond inter-American cultural relations, ethnicities across the national and cultural plurality of America, mutual constructions of North and South, borderlands, issues of migration and diaspora. The larger contexts of globalization and America's role within this process are also discussed, alongside issues of geographical exploration, capital expansion, integration, transculturalism, transnationalism and global flows, pre-Columbian and contemporary Native American cultures, the Atlantic slave trade, the environmental crisis, U.S. literature in relation to Canadian or Latin American literature, religious conflict both within the Americas and between the Americas and the rest of the world, with such issues as American Zionism, American exceptionalism, and the discourse of/on terror and terrorism... Back cover.Acknowledgements / Theo D'haen, Paul Giles, Djelal Kadir and Lois Parkinson Zamora; AMERICAN STUDIES FROM AN INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES PERSPECTIVE. Defending America against Its Devotees / Djelal Kadir; The Tenacious Grasp of American Exceptionalism: A Response to Djelal Kadir, "Defending America against Its Devotees" / Amy Kaplan; Resisting Terror, Resisting Empire: The Evolving Ethos of American Studies / Kousar J. Azam; How far from America is America? / Werner Sollors; INTERNATIONAL, TRANSNATIONAL, HEMISPHERIC AMERICA. Through the Fun House Mirror: The Fulbright Teaching Experience in Germany / Janice L. Reiff; American Diplomats in South Africa and the Emergence of Apartheid, 1948-1953 / J. P. Brits; The Quest for Cultural Identity in the African Diaspora in the Americas and Europe in the Early Twentieth Century / Allison Blakely; Notes on Border(land)s and Transculturation in the ‘Damp and Hungry Interstices' of the Americas / Roland Walter; Antropofagismo and the ‘Cannibal Logic' of Hemispheric American Studies / Justin Read;AMERICAN SOCIAL, ETHICAL, AND RELIGIOUS MENTALITIES. Is Truth Defunct? / Kathleen Haney; True Ethics: American Morality in (Post-)Modern Times / Bernd Klähn; "In All People I See Myself": The New American Sprituality and the Paradoxes of Cultural Pluralism / Mary Kupiec Cayton; COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES, LITERARY COUNTERPOINTS. The End of History? Contemporary World Fiction and the Testing of American Ideologemes / Jerry A. Varsava; Excentric Positionalities: Mimicry and Changing Constructions of the Center in the Americas / Amaryll Chanady; Approaches to Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman / Amporn Srisermbhok; How Far is Modernity From Here? Brazil, Portugal: Two Novels in Portuguese / Helena Carvalhão Buescu; How Far is T. S. Eliot From Here? The Young Poet's Imagined World of Polynesian Matahiva / Tatsushi Narita; Cities in Ruins: The Recuperation of the Baroque in T. S. Eliot and Octavio Paz / Cecilia Enjuto Rangel; An ‘American Venture': Self-Representation and Self-Orientalization in Turkish-American Selma Ekrem's Unveiled / Gönül Pultar; Damnosa Hereditas: Sorting the National Will in Fuentes' 'La Muerte de Artemio Cruz, and Pynchon's 'The Crying of Lot 49' / Pedro García-Caro; American Culture Meets Post-Colonial Insight: Visions of the United tates in Salman Rushdie's Fury / Rodney Stephens;AMERICAN IDENTITIES. Juan de Velasco's (S.J.) Natural History: Differentiating the Kingdom of Quito / Silvia Navia Méndez-Bonito; Creole Identity in Eighteenth-Century Peru: Race and Ethnicity / Jerry M. Williams; Locating the American Voice: Space Relation as Self-Identification in henry David Thoreau's Vision / Albena Bakratcheva; Home away from Home: The Construction of Germany and America in Elsie Singmaster's The Lèse-Majesté of Hans Heckendorn (1905) / Carmen Birkle; The In-between Space: Ekphrasis and Translation in the Poems "Objetos y apariciones" by Octavio Paz and "Objects & Apparitions" by Elizabeth Bishop / Irene Artigas Albarelli; Reconfiguring Female Characters of the American West: Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping / Corina Anghel; Homing In? The Critical/creative Transformation of a Genre / Helen M. Dennis; Multilingual Narrative and the Refusal of Translation: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee and R. Zamora Linmark's Rolling the R's / Joshua L. Miller; Ty Pak: Korean American Literature as ‘Guilt Payment' / Kirsten Twelbeck; ‘Buried Alive in the Blues': Janis Joplin and the Souls of White Folk / Gavin James Campbell; How Far is the Canadian Border from America?: A Case Study in Racial Profiling / Helen McClure;SPACE AND PLACE IN AMERICAN STUDIES. Space and Place in Geography and American Studies / Sheila Hones, Julia Leyda, Khadija Fritsch-El Alaoui; Innocents Abroad? The U.S. and the World in National Geographic / Anders Olsson; ‘Is it down on any map?' Space Symbols and American Ideology in Melville's Typee / Cinzia Schiavini; Willa Cather's Deep Southwest / Rosario Faraudo; The Transitional in the American Cities: Introduction / Dorothea Löbbermann; Schizopolis: Border Cinema and the Global City (of Angels) / Camilla Fojas; All the World's in L.A.: Public Concerts in the Global City / Marina Peterson; New York City as America: Examples from Auster and DeLillo / Markku Salmela; Transient Figures in New York: Tourists and Street People / Dorothea Löbbermann; Notes on Contributors.How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance, discursive formations, ideals and ideologies, foundational narratives, political conformities, aberrations, inconsistencies? Where is here—positionality, geographies, spatial compressions, hegemonic and subaltern loci, disciplinary formations, reflexes and reflexivities? These questions are addressed with regard to the multiple Americas within the USA and the bi-continental western hemisphere, as part of and beyond inter-American cultural relations, ethnicities across the national and cultural plurality of America, mutual constructions of North and South, borderlands, issues of migration and diaspora. The larger contexts of globalization and America's role within this process are also discussed, alongside issues of geographical exploration, capital expansion, integration, transculturalism, transnationalism and global flows, pre-Columbian and contemporary Native American cultures, the Atlantic slave trade, the environmental crisis, U.S. literature in relation to Canadian or Latin American literature, religious conflict both within the Americas and between the Americas and the rest of the world, with such issues as American Zionism, American exceptionalism, and the discourse of/on terror and terrorism... Back cover