Hubert Zapf

Johanna Hartmann

The collection Censorship and Exile focuses on the interrelations between the experience of exile and mechanisms of censorship. In the phenomenon of censorship the intersections and reciprocal tensions of the cultural and political spheres become drastically apparent. Literature as a form of cultural expression reacts to and criticizes ideological premises of certain political contexts. It thus represents a counter-discourse to processes of canonization that are prescribed and violently put into action by oppressive political regimes. Within the respective political contexts, people who demanded liberties such as freedom of speech or artistic freedom often found themselves forced into exile or internal emigration. The present volume focuses on these continuities and discontinuities, on commonly shared features as well as the heterogeneous manifestations of exile literature(s) in the face of practices of censorship and the repression of free speech and artistic freedom in Germany, the US and beyond. The collection comprises contributions that shed light on the interrelation of censorship and exile from comparative, historical, political, and creative perspectives.

Censorship and Exile

Katharina Eck

Kathrin Heinz

Christiane Keim

Häuslichkeit, Haus, Wohnen - diese Begriffe artikulieren das so genannte Private, seinen privilegierten Ort, seine Atmosphären und Befindlichkeiten. Das Häusliche gilt oft als Raum des unpolitisch Eigenen und Individuellen. Tatsächlich sind jedoch Wohnung und Haus seit jeher Territorien von Regulierungstechniken, Erziehungsstrategien, emotionalen Bindungen und Arbeitsbeziehungen. Die Beiträge dieses Irene Nierhaus gewidmeten Bandes beziehen sich auf ein Denken des Wohn/Raums als in diesem Sinne komplexe und flexible Struktur, in der sich Subjektivität, Geschlecht, Nation und Gemeinschaft konstituieren. Mit Beiträgen von Katharina Eck, Susanne von Falkenhausen, Insa Härtel, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Gabu Heindl, Kathrin Heinz, Heidi Helmhold, Elke Krasny, Barbara Paul, Kathrin Peters, Alexia Pooth, Drehli Robnik, Mona Schieren, Astrid Silvia Schönhagen, Matt Smith, Silke Wenk und Elena Zanichelli.

Politiken des Häuslichen in Kunst, Architektur und visueller Kultur

Wohn/Raum/Denken

Christine Marks

This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives - e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine - to analyze and interpret the fictional and non-fictional works by Siri Hustvedt, an author whose reputation and public presence have been growing steadily in the 21st century and who is recognized as one of the most widely read and appreciated contemporary American writers. In her significance and stature as a public intellectual, she is not merely an American writer but a transnational, cosmopolitan author, who develops new forms not only of literary narrative but of interdisciplinary thought and writing, bringing together otherwise separated genres and branches of knowledge in a broad spectrum between literature and philosophy, historiography and art, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, narrative and medicine. The present volume is structured into the parts "Literary Creation and Communication," Psychoanalysis and Philosophy," "Medicine and Narrative," "Vision, Perception, and Power," and "Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self" and closes with an interview of Siri Hustvedt by Susanne Becker in which Hustvedt elucidates her personal conception of her own creative processes of writing.

Interdisciplinary Essays

Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt's Works

Literary Visuality in Siri Hustvedt's Works

Johanna Hartmann

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