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Since ethnic stereotyping gained new political virulence in the current ethnopopulist climate, the three-day conference, organized by five researchers from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, aimed to promote academic discussion on new perspectives on imagology. In twenty-six presentations, international scholars shared their findings on strategies of Othering within a transdisciplinary framework of different theoretical approaches from postcolonial theory to gender studies, from intermediality to musicology, in order to fathom the boundaries of imagological research today. An additional poster session gave students the opportunity to present their research on hetero- and auto-stereotypes within literature.
[Rezension zu:] Stephan-Alexander Ditze: America and the Americans in Postwar British Fiction
(2008)
Rezension zu Stephan-Alexander Ditze: America and the Americans in Postwar British Fiction. An Imagological Study of Selected Novels. Heidelberg (Winter) 2006. 368 S.
Die Ergebnisse imagologischer Forschung stehen gelegentlich unter dem Verdacht, Literatur nur als Quellenmaterial für eine im Grunde soziologische Fragestellung zu funktionalisieren, ohne dabei den spezifischen Bedingungen, unter denen in der Literatur Bedeutung generiert wird, Rechnung zu tragen. Insofern gibt es eine ganze Reihe methodologischer Probleme und erkenntniskritischer Vorbehalte gegenüber der komparatistischen Imagologie, die wissen will, wie Selbst- und Fremdbilder der Nationen in der Literatur entstehen und verhandelt werden. - Es ist das Verdienst der gleichermaßen gründlichen wie verständlich geschriebenen Arbeit von Stephan-Alexander Ditze, die methodologischen Probleme der Imagologie nicht zu ignorieren, sondern der Methodenfrage etwa ein Drittel des Umfangs zu widmen.
Vorgestellt werden zwei Neuerungen im DaF-Curriculum an der Westböhmischen Universität Pilsen: KOMIN ist ein Komplexpraktikum, in dem die Studierenden einen literarischen Text unter literatur- und sprachwissenschaftlichen Aspekten analysieren und darauf aufbauend einen Unterrichtsentwurf entwickeln. IMAG bedeutet "Einführung in die komparatistische Imagologie": an literarischen Beispielen wird gezeigt, wie Images entstehen und im interkulturellen Dialog funktionieren.
Imagological analysis can be fruitfully applied to political discourse, most importantly the discourse of international antagonism and national self-positioning used in government decision-making circles. Historians studying that discourse have tended to see its rhetoric of national characterization merely as a distracting accompaniment to actual, factually driven policies and developments. This, it is argued here, questionably presupposes that those policies were never driven by anything but cerebral reasons of state (such as these are seen by latter-day historians); it makes us unduly heedless of an important historical corpus throwing light on the force of emotive and national prejudice in policymaking.
This article outlines a production-oriented imagology and equips the imagological toolkit with concepts and terminology from cultural memory studies, reception aesthetics, narratology, rhetoric, and text linguistics. It thereby presents the theoretical framework which makes it possible to analyse generic elements without a national connotation with regard to their function in generating a national image. Using as examples genres from English Romanticism and how they evoke Englishness, the article highlights the aesthetic complexity of national images and their range of variation. Simultaneously it paves the way for a more nuanced deconstruction of these images.
Rezension zu Małgorzata Świderska: Studien zur literaturwissenschaftlichen Imagologie. Das literarische Werk F.M. Dostoevskijs aus imagologischer Sicht mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Darstellung Polens, München (Otto Sagner) 2001 (= Slavistische Beiträge; Bd. 412). 495 Seiten.
Wenn die polnische Slawistin Małgorzata Świderska nun ihre Tübinger Dissertation über Dostojewskij und Polen vorlegt, so ist das sehr zu begrüßen. Die umfangreiche Abhandlung ist zunächst einmal ein willkommener Beitrag zur Dostojewskij-Forschung, denn noch niemals vorher ist diese Region der Phobien Dostojewskijs derart ausführlich untersucht worden. Zum anderen aber liefert die Verfasserin am Beispiel eines weltliterarisch hochbedeutenden Autors einen Beitrag zur "Imagologie", einer zur Zeit offenbar schon im Absinken begriffenen Disziplin der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Im Falle Dostojewskijs jedoch erhält gerade die Imagologie eine besondere Aktualität, weil seine Darstellung des Ausländischen immer wieder von einem extrem engstirnigen Nationalismus bestimmt wird.
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).
With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary representation of national, usually European characters. Consisting of an instructive introduction and 21 articles, the book relates this sub-field of comparative literature to contemporary political developments and enriches it with new interdisciplinary, transnational, intersectional, and intermedial perspectives. The contributions offer [1] a reconsideration and update of the field's methods, genres, and theoretical frames; [2] trans-/post-national, migratory, and marginalized perspectives beyond the European nation-state; [3] insights into geopolitical dichotomies such as Orient/Occident; [4] intersectional approaches considering the entanglements of national images with notions of age, class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race; [5] investigations of the role of national images in visual narratives and music.