Tales That Touch: Migration, Translation, and Temporality in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Culture

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Tales That Touch

Migration, Translation, and Temporality in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Culture

Edited by: Bettina Brandt and Yasemin Yildiz

Volume 33 in the series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778922

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About this book

Cultural texts born out of migration frequently defy easy categorization as they cross borders, languages, histories, and media in unpredictable ways. Instead of corralling them into identity categories, whether German or otherwise, the essays in this volume, building on the influential work of Leslie A. Adelson, interrogate how to respond to their methodological challenge in innovative ways. Investigating a wide variety of twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts that touch upon "things German" in the broadest sense—from print and born-digital literature to essay film, nature drawings, and memorial sites—the contributions employ transnational and multilingual lenses to show how these works reframe migration and temporality, bringing into view antifascist aesthetics, refugee time, postmigrant Heimat, translational poetics, and post-Holocaust affects. With new literary texts by Yoko Tawada and Zafer Şenocak and essays by Gizem Arslan, Brett de Bary, Bettina Brandt, Claudia Breger, Deniz Göktürk, John Namjun Kim, Yuliya Komska, Paul Michael Lützeler, B. Venkat Mani, Barbara Mennel, Katrina L. Nousek, Anna Parkinson, Damani J. Partridge, Erik Porath, Jamie Trnka, Ulrike Vedder, and Yasemin Yildiz.

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Bettina Brandt, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA; Yasemin Yildiz, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: Tales that Touch Bettina Brandt and Yasemin Yildiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Prelude
Der Name und die Zeit Yoko Tawada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
The Name and the Time Yoko Tawada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Reframing Time and Exile
Suspended Time, Exile, and the Literature of Transnational Antifascism: Parentheses and Postscripts Jamie H. Trnka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Untimely Tales: Psychoanalysis as Spectral Modernism in Hans Keilson’s Novel, The Death of the Adversary Anna M. Parkinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Future Sense and Refugee Time: Reading Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay as a Global Novel B. Venkat Mani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Multilingualism, Translation, Transfer
Gaps and Tatting: Reading, Translating, Collecting (Anna O., Bertha Pappenheim, Uljana Wolf) Ulrike Vedder and Erik Porath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
A Betweenness that Beckons: Rhythm and Rhyme in Tawada’s Poetic Time John Namjun Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Beyond Fidelity and Treason: On the Ironic Poetics of Translation Deniz Göktürk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Jews, Animals, Migration: H. A. Rey’s Commercial and Non-Commercial Nature Drawings in Brazil Yuliya Komska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Narratological Itineraries
Belonging in the Folds of Fact and Fabulation: Fictionality, Narration, and Heimat in Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft Claudia Breger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Intertextuality in Peter Schneider’s Narrative Fiction from Lenz to Couplings: An Essay Paul Michael Lützeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
(Re)constructing Heimat: Intermedial Archives in Saša Stanišić’s Vor dem Fest and Alexandra Saemmer’s “Böhmische Dörfer” Katrina L. Nousek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Communities / Constellations of the Aftermath
Private Precarity and Public Theory in Irene von Alberti’s The Long Summer of Theory Barbara Mennel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Unnatural Disaster as Chronotope: “Lines” of Connection and Language as the “Flesh” of Time in Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary Brett de Bary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Writing Heimat: José F. A. Oliver at Heim with Paul Celan Gizem Arslan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Comparison Limits – “Touching Tales” of Atrocity: An Anthropologist’s Reflections Damani J. Partridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Envoi
Ausreisen oder Reißaus nehmen Zafer Şenocak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
To Exit or To Escape Zafer Şenocak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Notes on Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Literary and Cultural Studies; Translation; Jewish, Turkish, Black, and Asian-German Studies; Anthropologists
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 354
Keywords: Transnational literature; multilingualism; Holocaust Studies; exile studies; refugee literature

eBook

Published: September 20, 2022
ISBN: 9783110778922

Hardcover

Published: September 20, 2022
ISBN: 9783110778236

Paperback

Planned Publication: June 17, 2024
ISBN: 9783111534572