Rupprecht Asian Fusion

New Encounters in the Asian-German Avant-Garde
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78707-357-9
Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 32, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Cultural History and Literary Imagination

This book contributes to a historically evolving conversation about immigration as a facet of globalization in the European context. Focusing on literary and artistic works from the post–World War II era, the author uses a «call-and-response» structure – as in African-American slave songs, Indian kirtans, and Jewish liturgy – to create a series of dialogues between Asian-German authors, including Yoko Tawada, Pham Thi Hoài, and Anna Kim, and an earlier generation of German-speaking authors and artists whose works engaged with «Asia,» including W. G. Sebald, Peter Weiss, and Joseph Beuys.Considering the recent successes of the New Right, which have brought about a regression to Nazi anti-Semitic discourses grounded in the equation between Jews and «Orientals,» the author advocates a need for solidarity between Germans and Asian-Germans. Using «fusion» as a metaphor, she revises the critical paradigms of Orientalism and postcolonial studies to show how, in the aftermath of the twelve-year Nazi dictatorship, Germany has successfully transformed itself into a country of immigration – in part due to the new and pioneering Asian-German voices that have reshaped the German-speaking cultural landscape and that are now, for the first time, featured as coming together in this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rupprecht, Caroline

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS: Call-and-Response – Parallels – Silkworms and Concentration Camps: W. G. Sebald’s Die Ringe des Saturn and Austerlitz – Writing Emptiness: Yoko Tawada’s The Bath, Das nackte Auge and «Flucht des Monds» – Convergences – From Auschwitz to Vietnam: Peter Weiss’s Viet Nam Diskurs and Notizen zum kulturellen Leben der Demokratischen Republik Viet Nam – Translating Silences: Pham Thi Hoài’s Die Kristallbotin and Sonntagsmenü – Discordances – Shamanic Performances: Joseph Beuys’s Der Eurasier, Eurasia Siberian Symphony, and Auschwitz Demonstration – Shamanic Spaces: Anna Kim’s Anatomie einer Nacht and Die grosse Heimkehr – «Asian Fusion».

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Rupprecht is Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Womb Fantasies: Subjective Architectures in Postmodern Literature, Cinema, and Art (2013) and Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender (2006) and the translator, with an introduction, of Unica Zürn’s 1969 novella Dark Spring (2000).