Spatial turns : space, place, and mobility in German literary and visual culture / edited by Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fisher, Jaimey.

Mennel, Barbara Caroline.

Series:

Amsterdamer Beitrage zur neueren Germanistik ; Bd. 75.

Amsterdamer Beitrage zur neueren Germanistik ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography in literature.

Cities and towns in literature.

Cities and towns in motion pictures.

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

Motion pictures--Setting and scenery--Germany.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Germany.

Motion pictures, German.

Place (Philosophy) in art.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Setting (Literature).

Space in literature.

Germany--Civilization.

Germany.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The phrase “spatial turns” signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: “Mapping Spaces” addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; “Spaces of the Urban” takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; “Spaces of Encounter” considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and “Visualized Spaces” concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Spatial Turns

Acknowledgements / Editors Spatial Turns

Introduction / Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel

Mapping Vision: Goethe, Cartography, and the Novel / Andrew Piper

Just How Naughty was Berlin? The Geography of Prostitution and Female Sexuality in Curt Moreck’s Erotic Travel Guide / Jill Suzanne Smith

Mapping a Human Geography: Spatiality in Uwe Johnson’s Mutmassungen über Jakob [Speculations about Jakob, 1959] / Jennifer Marston William

Historical Space: Daniel Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt [Measuring the World, 2005] / Katharina Gerstenberger

Gendered Urban Spaces: Cultural Mediations on the City in Eighteenth-Century German Women’s Writing / Diana Spokiene

The Roots of German Theater’s “Spatial Turn”: Gerhart Hauptmann’s Social-Spatial Dramas / Amy Strahler Holzapfel

Urban Mediations: The Theoretical Space of Siegfried Kracauer’s Ginster / Eric Jarosinski

Protesting the Globalized Metropolis: The Local as Counterspace in Recent Berlin Literature / Bastian Heinsohn

Transnational Cinema and the Ruins of Berlin and Havana: Die neue Kunst, Ruinen zu bauen [The New Art of Making Ruins, 2007] and Suite Habana (2003)1 / Jennifer Ruth Hosek

From the Desert to the City and Back: Nomads and the Spaces of Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan [West-Eastern Divan, 1819/1827] / Kamaal Haque

Not All Who Wander Are Lost: Alfred Döblin’s Reise in Polen [Journey to Poland, 1925] / June J. Hwang

The Feminine Topography of Zion: Mapping Gertrud Kolmar’s Poetic Imagination / Carola Daffner

Jewish Colonia as Heimat in the Pampas: Robert Schopflocher’s Explorations of Thirdspace in Argentina / Will Lehman

Rewriting Home and Migration: Spatiality in the Narratives of Emine Sevgi Özdamar / Silke Schade

Transcultural Space and Music: Fatih Akın’s Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005) / Barbara Kosta

The Cult of the Cold and the Gendered Body in Mountain Films / Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey

Panoptic Paranoia and Phantasmagoria: Fritz Lang’s Nocturnal City / Steven Jacobs

Subjective Topographies: Berlin in Post-Wall Photography / Miriam Paeslack

Kreuzberg as Relational Place: Respatializing the “Ghetto” in Bettina Blümner’s Prinzessinnenbad [Pool of Princesses, 2007] / Jaimey Fisher

Digital Geographies: Berlin in the Ages of New Media / Todd Presner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-64305-3

9786612643057

90-420-3002-X

OCLC:

648711441

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042030022 DOI