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This contribution gathers eight interviews with international scholars of different generations and disciplines who study Black European literatures: Elisabeth Bekers, Jeannot Moukouri Ekobe, Polo B. Moji, Deborah Nyangulu, Jeannette Oholi, Anne Potjans, Nadjib Sadikou, and Dominic Thomas. The aim is to make literary research on Black Europe more visible to scholars in comparative literature and to contribute to a discussion on research perspectives, theories, and future challenges and needs.
This article studies two African American examples of provincialising Europe "from the inside", James Baldwin's essay "Stranger in the Village" and Vincent O. Carter's "The Bern Book", both set in 1950's Switzerland. It investigates how these texts reverse the ethnographic gaze at the "other" and use the rural Swiss scenario to imagine Europe as historically backward. While the authors differ in their intentions, both acts of provincialisation leave the superiority of European high culture intact.
This article compares Chika Unigwe's novel "On Black Sisters' Street" and Sudabeh Mortezai's film "Joy", both about Nigerian women trafficked for sex work to Belgium and Austria respectively. They share a genre genealogy with slave narratives but are primarily concerned with European (neo-)colonialism. Drawing on postcolonial and intersectional theory as well as imagology, this article analyses the Black female re-imagination and strategic exoticisation of Europe in the two narratives.
The introduction informs about Black literary imaginations of Europe that reverse or complicate the (neo-)colonialist European gaze at the "African Other". It reviews the state of research and provides an overview of the aims and sources of the special issue, whose individual contributions take into account both national specificities and transnational contexts. Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco emphasise the important role of comparative literature for the field of African European studies (and vice-versa).
Mutoni im Un/Happyland : die Bürde weißer Retter*innen in Tete Loepers Roman "Barfuß in Deutschland"
(2023)
In Tete Loeper's novel "Barefoot in Germany" (2020), Black first-person narrator Mutoni from Rwanda recounts her experiences as a marriage migrant, sex worker, maid, and caregiver in Germany, a supposed "Happyland" where racism is considered the offense of "others": bad individuals and Nazis. However, Loeper's white savior characters are both nice people and (unwitting) racists, while some of Mutoni's Black sisters behave in discriminatory ways as well. Drawing on critical race theory and imagology, this article shows how the novel deconstructs and appropriates stereotypical images from "'colorblind' Europe" on both a thematic and formal-aesthetic level. By engaging with a comparative and transnational frame of reference that goes beyond a monolingual white canon of theory and literature, the article reveals the novel's connections to other Black texts and genres, as well as its literary strategies in dealing with identity (politics).
Darlegung der strategische Entwicklung der FID der Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg aus fachlicher und struktureller Sicht: in Hinblick auf ihre Rolle als Partner für die Wissenschaft, der Synergien an der UB JCS durch sechs FID und ihre Positionierung im FID-Netzwerk.
Die strategische Entwicklung der FID aus technischer Sicht wird in Hinblick auf Infrastruktur, Datenmanagement und Community-Arbeit vertieft.
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Havana's apartment-galleries have been vital venues for the city's art scene since the 1990s, hosting art exhibitions, workshops, and conferences. In the context of Cuba's limited art market and dearth of cultural institutions with international reach, these residential spaces have offered artists a unique opportunity to display their work and to connect with international art circuits. Focusing on the histories of three specific apartment-galleries - El Apartamento, Estudio Figueroa-Vives, and Avecez Art Space - this chapbook reflects on the complex interplay of the local and the global in the 'worlding' of cultural institutions.
"Finnegans Wake" bildet den Gipfelpunkt der klassischen Moderne und hat die Literatur nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg so nachhaltig geprägt wie kaum ein anderes Einzelwerk. 17 Jahre lang arbeitete James Joyce daran, bevor es 1939 publiziert wurde. Über 80 Jahre später arbeitet Ulrich Blumenbach derzeit an einer kompletten Übersetzung ins Deutsche. In seinem Work-in-Progress-Journal bringt Blumenbach gemeinsam mit seinen Leser·innen die anarchische Assoziationsmaschinerie auf Touren, illustriert an sprechenden Beispielen, was es braucht, um die wilde Semiose des Werks ins Deutsche zu übertragen und beschreibt, welche Freiheiten er sich nehmen muss, um der deutschen Leserschaft eine Ahnung davon zu vermitteln, wie Sinnenergien Synergien generieren.
Helmut Frielinghaus war Literaturvermittler und Übersetzer aus dem Spanischen und Englischen. Nach einigen Jahren als Buchhändler in Spanien kam er wieder nach Deutschland und arbeitete als Übersetzer, dann als Lektor, u.a. von Günter Grass, und Verlagsleiter. Während seiner Jahre im deutschen Buchgewerbe hat er viele Menschen inspiriert und den Übersetzernachwuchs gefördert.
As is well known, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and what is considered beautiful is contextual. The itinerant symposium "Medicine, Beauty, and the Body: Materials, Texts and Artifacts" which took place from September 24 to 28, 2023 in Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna explored this topic in an interdisciplinary way and examined the intertwining of beauty, health and medicine from antiquity to early modern Europe. The event was a cooperation between the programme "Figurations of Transitions" of the inter-university institution Science and Art of the Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg and the University Mozarteum in Salzburg, Schloss Ambras and the Museumsverband Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Not only the sheer diversity of sources in the field of historical beauty cultures became apparent, but also their circulation and transformation through time and space as well as their significance as social, political, religious, and economic variables. The practical approach of the event in particular showed new paths in the field of historical beauty studies.