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Revolutionary subjects : German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America / Jamie H. Trnka.
LIBRA PT405 .T695 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trnka, Jamie H. (Jamie Helene), author.
- Series:
- Interdisciplinary German cultural studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Delius, Friedrich Christian, 1943-2022.
- Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995.
- Braun, Volker, 1939-.
- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus.
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Latin America--In literature.
- Latin America.
- Politics in literature.
- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus--Criticism and interpretation.
- Braun, Volker, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.
- Braun, Volker.
- Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995--Criticism and interpretation.
- Müller, Heiner.
- Delius, Friedrich Christian, 1943-2022--Criticism and interpretation.
- Delius, Friedrich Christian.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 318 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
- Summary:
- "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 textual instances of aesthetic solidarity, which, she argues, anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Geoculture, Solidarity, and Textual Politics in East and West German Writings about Latin America
- Chapter 2: The Translator's Ghosts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Latin American Compromiso in Kursbuch and The Habana Inquiry
- Chapter 3: Alternative Internationalisms and Literary Historical Inversions: Volker Braun's Guevara or the Sun State
- Chapter 4: The Task of Decolonial Thinking: Second World Authorship in Heiner Müller's The Task
- Chapter 5: A Rhetoric of Walking Around: F.C. Delius's Adenauerplatz
- Chapter 6: The Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity
- Appendix: "Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda, with a translation by Donald D. Walsh.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Caminando alrededor. English.
- ISBN:
- 9783110376227
- 3110376229
- OCLC:
- 897487817
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