New Perspectives on Imagology

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-45012-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 913 g

Reihe: Studia Imagologica

With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary representation of national, usually European characters. Consisting of an instructive introduction and 21 articles, the book relates this sub-field of comparative literature to contemporary political developments and enriches it with new interdisciplinary, transnational, intersectional, and intermedial perspectives.
The contributions offer [1] a reconsideration and update of the field’s methods, genres, and theoretical frames; [2] trans-/post-national, migratory, and marginalized perspectives beyond the European nation-state; [3] insights into geopolitical dichotomies such as Orient/Occident; [4] intersectional approaches considering the entanglements of national images with notions of age, class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race; [5] investigations of the role of national images in visual narratives and music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Edtstadler, Katharina

Folie, Sandra

Zocco, Gianna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: New Perspectives on Imagology

Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco

Part 1: Reconsidering the European Conception of Imagology and Its Peripheries: Methods, Genres, Theoretical Frames

1 Enmity, Identity, Discourse: Imagology and the State

Joep Leerssen

2 Axiological Foundations of Imagology

Davor Dukic

3 Toward a Production-Oriented Imagology

Ulrike Kristina Köhler

4 Imagology and the Analysis of Identity Discourses in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Travel Writing by Charles Dickens and Karl Philipp Moritz

Sandra Vlasta

Part 2: Imagology beyond and across the European Nation-State: Trans-/Postnational, Migratory, and Marginalized Perspectives

5 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Transnational: Images and Stereotypes in Yadé Kara’s Selam Berlin and Paul Beatty’s Slumberland

Gianna Zocco

6 Immigration and Imagology, or Nationalisms Abandoned

Manfred Beller

7 Transnationalizing National Characterization: Meta-Images and the Centre-Periphery Dynamics in Spain and the South Slavic Region

Josip Kešic

Part 3: Of Orient/Occident and Other Geopolitical Dichotomies: Imagology and Its Systems of Cultural Mappings

8 Between Orient and Occident: The Construction of a Postimperial Turkish Identity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s Novel Huzur

Johanna Chovanec

9 European Ethnotypes in Chinese Words: The Translation and Negotiation of Some Western National Characters in Early Nineteenth-Century China

Federica Casalin

10 A Study on The Travel Journal and Pictures: Li Danlin’s Image of Foreign Lands and Cultures

Zhu Wenjun

11 “I have gotten used to the whites, but I tremble before the blacks!”: Fashioning Colonial Subjectivities in The Brave Rabbit in Africa

Kristína Kállay

12 The Myth of the Orient in Flaubert’s Voyage en Égypte and Bachmann’s Das Buch Franza

Walter Wagner

Part 4: Intersectional Approaches to Imagology: The Multiple Entanglements of Ethnotypes

13 Categories, Stereotypes, Images, and Intersectionality

Martina Thiele

14 Nationality as Intersectional Storytelling: Inventing the Parisienne

Maria Weilandt

15 A “Jezebel” or a Further “Madwoman in the Attic” in Caroline Lee Hentz’s The Planter’s Northern Bride

Karin Andersson

16 Images of Bosniac Women in Contemporary Antiwar Films: An Intersectional Analysis of Victim Feminism in Grbavica and In the Land of Blood and Honey

Ivana Drmic

Part 5: Imagology Intermedial: Beyond the Literary Text

17 National Images in Visual Narratives: The (Re)Presentation of National Characters in the Flemish Comic Series Suske en Wiske

Christine Hermann

18 #JeSuisAmatrice: Identity through a Landscape of Wounds; Toward a Geo-Imagology

Daniel Brandlechner

19 Singing the Dutch: An Extended Imagological Approach to Constructions of “Dutchness” in Late Eighteenth-Century Political Songs

Renée Vulto

20 “… the first singer, a born German”: Notions of Nationality as a Field of Conflict in Operatic Music of the 1770s

Andrea Horz

21 Blurring Stereotypes: “Aus dem Leben eines Tonkünstlers” as a Medium of Italian Musical Character around 1800

Carolin Krahn

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katharina Edtstadler, Dr. phil. (2020), University of Vienna, is a literary scholar whose main research interests focus on the interdisciplinary field of Medical Humanities. She has published two monographs and several articles on the topic.

Sandra Folie, Dr. phil. (2020), University of Vienna, is an assistant professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at that university. She has published a monograph, Beyond Ethnic Chick Lit (2022), and several articles on contemporary global women’s writing.

Gianna Zocco, Dr. phil. (2013), University of Vienna, is a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin. She has published two monographs and several articles on African-American literature in relation to Germany, windows in literature, intertextuality, literature and spatial discourses.