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This article applies imagology to "migration literature" - a genre that is described as a "peripheral phenomenon" in the 2007 handbook "Imagology", but that requires more thorough attention due to the increasing number of significant writings by immigrant authors. Focusing on works by Rafik Schami, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Amara Lakhous, Igiaba Scego, Hatice Akyün, Yoko Tawada, and Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and considering theoretical observations by Edward Said, Salman Rushdie, and Homi Bhabha, this article analyses how most texts prefer arguments and metaphors of everyday life to the traditional images and stereotypes of nationalistic discourse. It concludes by distinguishing two perspectives central to most of them: that of an "in-between" and/or a "Third Space."
O olhar estrangeiro
(1998)
This text tries to illustrate what we understand by strangeness, alterity and exotopy. From the point of view of a stranger, we, as Brazilians, see and read products of foreign cultures in an exotopic way, which is quite productive. The same occurs with Germans looking at US, which gives us another view of ourselves. As an illustration, the poem "calypso" from Ernst Jandl will be discussed in this context.
Images, the main object of imagological analysis, are by nature value-charged. Despite this fact, previous research has neglected the axiological foundations of imagology. This article discusses in brief some fundamental axiological questions of imagological investigations. The here analysed corpus includes an eighteenth-century visual-textual source (the so-called "Leopold-Stich"), and a famous imagological handbook ("Imagology", by Beller and Leerssen). The analysis starts with the problem of value connotations of the signifier of geocultural spaces and continues with a cluster of questions concerning the nature of value of imagotypical representations. The final part examines two relevant imagological phenomena—diachronic changes in evaluation of certain geocultural spaces and a somewhat opposite phenomenon of evaluative apriorism.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
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.
A Universidade de Aachen abrigou durante anos o principal centro de Estudos Imagológicos da Alemanha e talvez do mundo. O centro foi fundado por Hugo Dyserinck, que, em 1966, com o artigo "Zum Problem der 'images' und 'mirages' und ihrer Untersuchung im Rahmen der vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft" abriu as portas para uma nova Imagologia. Ali reuniu discípulos, que desbravaram os novos horizontes com inúmeras pesquisas, que deram origem à publicação da coleção "Aachener Beiträge zur Komparatistik". No Brasil, a influência de Dyserinck também se fez sentir, por exemplo, na publicação do livro "Do cá e do lá. Introdução à Imagologia", de minha autoria, cujo conteúdo é aqui, em parte, comentado e ilustrado.
This text aims to describe and to discuss the two different images of Brazil present in the travel notes and in the poetry of the German writer Marie Luise Kaschnitz.
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.